I like Adam Bruenz post here which is entitled ’When-Best-Practices-Aren’t-Best-Practices’, which provides a interesting and thought provoking view, and is a topic that is increasingly prevalent on many blogs in the SharePoint community – SharePoint Best Practices. In short, you should not implement ‘Best Practice’ methods even if they have the mighty Microsoft name to [...]
Introduction Winning and delivering a successful SharePoint project is something that takes time to master, but even then will present experienced SharePoint Project Managers(PMs) with a few surprises along the way. As discussed in the previous article, delivering successful projects can and will be challenging. This article continues on this theme, but looks not at [...]
I wrote an article and published it over on the recently launched ‘SharePoint Magazine by Arno Nel. With the growing interest in deploying SharePoint (MOSS and WSS) across all manor of businesses and organisations, the article looks at the general topic areas they should look into to avoid disappointment and ensure their investment reaps the [...]
In addition to this article I wrote recently, SharePoint Consultant/Developer Required….No!, I also responded to a posting on the ever popular LinkedIn site called ‘What skills are you looking for when hiring/recruiting a SharePoint Consultant?’. Since receiving positive comments from others following this posting, it has be referred to in others work, including that of [...]
A short note about how easy it is to take your SharePoint content offline using Microsoft Outlook 2007
One of the limitations with Windows SharePoint Services search is that the search at the top of your site it is limited to the site collection in terms of the data it is able to retrieve. This is frustrating if you have designed and deployed best practice methods for managing multiple site collections to better [...]
Why you shouldn’t hire a SharePoint Developer/Consultant as one person.
Technorati Tags: moss,wss,sharepoint What is SharePoint? A question which still comes up from time to time, even though the product(s) have been around now for some time! I thought I would re-post this to help those new to the SharePoint world….:-) Microsoft® SharePoint® is an enterprise information platform that can be configured to host Intranets, [...]
Our preference at WorkShares is to use mindmaps wherever problem definitions, requirements definition or understanding relationships between business processes needs to occur. This is especially useful with SharePoint related projects as requirements often sit between traditional infrastructure related topics, to more bespoke software driven that require a deeper appreciation of functional details. Such tools form [...]
Hi All, For those of you whom wish to radically changed the out of the box ‘look and feel’ and if the out of the box themes don’t inspire you, take a look at the following page: http://www.heathersolomon.com/content/sp07cssreference.htm It’s an in-depth listing of the CSS reference you should review. Not for the faint hearted and [...]