A warning on “tame” metaphors
Often people use metaphors to describe various aspects of SharePoint. I am guilty as charged here. One of the many that I use for SharePoint, is the metaphor of an Ikea modular storage solution to...
View ArticleMeet Agile Boy :-)
Not so long ago I wrote about the adventures of Governance Man and Dr Wicked. I also mentioned that there was another partner in crime. Agile Boy. Here he is in-between fighting SharePoint chaos and...
View ArticleDevelopers who do a “Russell Crowe”
Hi all If you were going to slot me into a little stereotype box, then you would slot me into the “IT pro” side of the fence. My coding is okay, but my real vein of expertise lay in infrastructure and...
View ArticleAcademic writing styles…
I have been reading a bunch of material about sense-making. Most of online at various websites (that shall remain nameless), written by people who are scary smart. Essentially I always am looking for...
View ArticleThe rationale of a 5 year old
Hahaha ahem – I found this funny. I am teaching my 11 year old daughter how to perform issue and dialogue mapping. Each night, we pick a relevant family topic, discuss all of the issues around the...
View ArticleThe problem with sales guys… (a peek into complex adaptive systems)
Vulgarity warning. Its the silly season, I am winding down and being more low-brow than usual with this post There is this wonderful way to look at the world, through a lens of something called...
View ArticleSharePoint Webcasts: Reporting Services for the Really Really Good Looking
Last year, Peter Serzo and I presented at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference in DC. We did an extremely serious talk called “SharePoint and SQL Reporting Services 2008 for the really really good...
View ArticleHow to use Charlie Sheen to improve your estimating…
Monte Carlo simulations are cool – very cool. in this post I am going to try and out-do Kailash Awati in trying to explain what they are. You see, I am one of these people who’s eyes glaze over the...
View ArticleMOSS World
Wow, Christian Buckley doesn’t waste any time. First up, watch this video then I will explain: Now I am writing this at 8am and around 10pm last night I recorded this vid with him and now it has...
View ArticleA Very Potter Audit – A Best Practices Parable
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...
View ArticleWhat? Even more epic than MOSS world!
Hi all Back on St Patricks Day in 2011, Christian Buckley and I commandeered a hotel piano in Wellington NZ and recorded an impromptu duet entitled “MOSS world” – a satirical take on many of the...
View ArticleThe ASS Scale. The best 2*2 management model ever!
So today I was inspired to come out of blogging hibernation because I saw possibly the worst dodgy 2*2 management matrix ever. The piece below was something that was originally going to be part of my...
View ArticleIncredible! Download a PowerApp that determines your IQ from a selfie…
Hiya Some of you might have seen my post where I explained how how my daughter, Ashlee (18), won a competition from Microsoft to develop a fidget spinner app. Well if you think that was impressive,...
View ArticleFrom Rick Astley to Fidget Spinners: A slew of PowerApps and Flow video...
Hiya I have been recording various videos over time of some advanced PowerApps and Flow concepts/solutions. All of these are either workarounds for current limitations in PowerApps or Flow or work I...
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