Once upon a time there lived a rather round wizard named Hocklart who worked at the FogWorts school of witchcraft and wizardry. Hocklart was a very proud wizard, perhaps the proudest in all of FogWorts. His pride did not stem …

A Very Potter Audit – A Best Practices Parable Read more »

Hi and welcome to the latest exciting instalment in my epic series of posts on my confessions of a post SharePoint architect. I was motivated to write this series because the mild mannered shrinking violet known as Bjorn Furuknap wrote …

Confession of a (post) SharePoint architect… What are you polishing? Read more »

Hi all and welcome to the next exciting instalment of my confessions from my work as a SharePoint architect and beyond. This is the eighth post and my last for 2012, so I will get straight into it. To recap, …

Confessions of a (post) SharePoint architect: The dangers of dial tone governance… Read more »

Hi all and welcome to the second post of a series that I have been wanting to write for a while. In this series, I am going to cover some of the lesser considered areas of being a SharePoint architect …

Confessions of a (post) SharePoint Architect: Don’t define “governance” Read more »

Hi all and welcome to the tenth article in my series on demystifying SharePoint performance management. I do feel that we are getting toward the home stretch here. If you go way back to Part 1, I stated my intent …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 10 – More tools of the trade… Read more »

Hi and welcome to Part 9 (bloody hell… nine!) of my series on trying to demystify SharePoint performance management a bit. If by any chance you have been asked to provide some sizing information for your organisation and you are …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 9 – Don’t believe everything you R/W Read more »

Hi all Welcome to part 6 on my series in making SharePoint performance management that little more digestible. To recap where we have been, I introduced the series by comparing lead versus lag indicators before launching into an examination of …

Demystifying SharePoint Performance Management Part 6 – The unholy trinity of Latency, IOPS and MBPS Read more »

Hi all Just a quick note for those of you who are of the academic persuasion or who have an interest in research and academic literature. Kailash and I wrote a paper for the International Journal for Managing Projects in …

I’m published in a PM Journal Read more »

Hi all and welcome to my 6th post on the weird and wonderful world of cloud computing. The recurring theme in this series has been to point out that the technological aspects of cloud computing have never really been the …

The cloud isn’t the problem–Part 6: The pros and cons of patriotism Read more »