I have had the privilege (and retain many scars!) of having worked with SharePoint since it’s first launch in 2001 and have seen successive updates to the platform over the years, as well as witness the growing adoption by businesses as one of the key ‘building blocks’ of technology being implemented to deliver both strategic [...]
We are pleased to announce that Michael Deller has joined WorkShares. He has joined as our Technical Director and will continue in his capacity as a seasoned SharePoint consultant and architect, amongst his other roles for WorkShares. With over 6 years experience of working with SharePoint technologies with some of the UK’s leading Microsoft partners [...]
When was the last time you read a business case which contained tangible (specifically financial) cost savings for recommending Microsoft SharePoint to be deployed into your organisation?
Background We were experiencing some issues with our hosted email provider through 2008 and were looking to move away from them at some point this year. Together with our own business strategy of providing hosted solutions we were keen to continue ‘consuming our own food’ so to speak. Hence we were on the look out [...]
The introduction and importantly adoption of SharePoint into any organisation is challenging to say the least, as relative novices, existing SharePoint, traditional infrastructure or software project managers whom take on the management and delivery of these projects, will tell you.
This article has highlighted many issues organisations deploying or about to will experience and indeed, many organisations will experience difficulties in some or all of the above, as a consequence of lack of experience, poor decision making or expectation management with the business sponsors.
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 [...]
Why you shouldn’t hire a SharePoint Developer/Consultant as one person.
Case Study for Deployment of SharePoint at Kingston Communications.