by Craig Roth | February 17, 2012 | Submit a Comment
With all due respect to William Ury and his negotiating strategy book “Getting to Yes,” the difficulty faced by owners of governance projects in organizations not used to governance is how to get to the point that saying “no” is feasible and actually works. After all, you don’t need to do anything with governance if [...]
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by Craig Roth | January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
In my posting How a Collaboration Technology Gets Adopted I described a storyline of how a collaboration technology goes from purchasing through adoption (and beyond to value). That technology could be social networking, SharePoint, an intranet, or a portal – I’ve seen the same pattern with all of them. There are 3 paths for what [...]
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by Craig Roth | January 25, 2012 | Comments Off
Adoption, adoption, adoption. Sometimes it seems like that’s all anyone wants to hear about when it comes to collaborative technologies such as social networking, SharePoint, Jive, or intranets. I’m on record as being a bit of a curmudgeon about adoption since I’ve seen it abused so frequently (particularly in the SharePoint space) by IT folks [...]
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by Craig Roth | October 7, 2011 | Comments Off
In my last posting from the SharePoint Conference 2011, I described how conference that occur during the years between releases have a different flavor to them. One topic that is always in style is business alignment and planning. My presentation provided some inspiration and caveats for SharePoint planning derived from a city planning metaphor (SPC290 [...]
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by Craig Roth | October 6, 2011 | Comments Off
The SharePoint conference had great attendance and lots of energy, but it’s definitively an in-between year. The big year for a SharePoint conference is the year before a new release, when the new features are announced and the first demos (and the first feedback in the community) appear. This year Microsoft is not ready to [...]
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by Craig Roth | July 28, 2011 | Comments Off
The Catalyst conference in San Diego is about 2/3rds done and I’ve been enjoying the many interactions I’ve had in “meet the analyst” sessions and in Q&A to my presentations. Quite a few of them are about SharePoint governance, which is still a major issue. It’s reassuring that over the years I’m getting this question [...]
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by Craig Roth | June 22, 2011 | Comments Off
On Tuesday Microsoft launched a SharePoint adoption website for SharePoint 2010. It takes a similar approach to the SharePoint Buzz Kit they published for 2007, helping internal SharePoint evangelists (often the owners of SharePoint) to set off light bulbs in the heads of potential business users (and turn them into fans). Seeing as I wrote [...]
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by Craig Roth | June 21, 2011 | Comments Off
“How many SharePoint personnel will I need given a company of our size?” This is a common question we get, both in the IT Leaders and IT Practioner’s group. In fact, the ITL folks (Karen Shegda and Mark Gilbert) did some great research in that area that has multipliers for various complexity factors such as [...]
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by Craig Roth | June 20, 2011 | Comments Off
I visited 3 companies in New York City recently, and am taking this opportunity to share the advice I gave since I consider it generally applicable: #1: Forget about SharePoint – or any other collaboration technology – for a collaborative process that is already screwed up. This was an organization with questions about doing aggregation [...]
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by Craig Roth | June 15, 2011 | Comments Off
Since publishing my document “ITIL for SharePoint: Defining SharePoint as a Service Using ITIL Service Strategy”, I’ve been advocating deploying SharePoint as a set of business-focused services instead of a dump of capabilities (which is what you get with SharePoint out-of-the-box “OOTB” or lightly customized). Unfortunately, the capability dump is a more common approach due [...]
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