Today's Date: 08 February 2012
13
Oct

A report on the Microsoft SharePoint Conference – from backstage, on-stage and as a member of the audience

I was fortunate enough to speak at last week’s 2011 SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, California. This is a one of the larger conferences on the Microsoft conference calendar, with over 7500 people attending. ... read full post

Posted by:  Gavin Barron,   |  13 October 2011
Tags: SharePoint, smartphone, Microsoft SharePoint Conference
17
Sep

SharePoint and Agile: go together like a horse and carriage

Well, that's my take anyway. I've been involved on a few SharePoint projects now that have taken a traditional approach, i.e. waterfall style, to the development of our customers' desired end product. While we delivered good solutions to our customers, I feel that had we taken an agile approach then the end product delivered could have been an absolute killer! ... read full post

Posted by:  Gavin Barron,   |  17 September 2008
Tags: Agile, SharePoint
16
Apr

SharePoint fails at collaboration?

Here at Intergen we run a series of late afternoon sessions called Twilight Seminars . This week we had a guest speaker, Michael Sampson , whose session was based on his white paper: The 7 Pillars of IT-Enabled Team Productivity: The Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Analysis , where he states: “On its own merits, SharePoint fails the needs of teams for collaborative software in 6 out of the 7 areas. It thus passes only one of the areas on its own merits and it passes an additional two areas if the organisation adds additional server software from Microsoft. However, using the software available from Microsoft, it earns a failing grade in 4 out of the 7 areas.” ... read full post

Posted by:  Gavin Barron,   |  16 April 2008
Tags: Office Communications Server, SharePoint, Collaboration
17
Mar

The latest from San Jose - Microsoft Office Systems Developers Conference 2008

I recently had the pleasure of attending the Microsoft Office Systems Developers Conference 2008 in San Jose California. This conference was targeted at developers and architects who are working within the Office suite; this includes the Client tools, Word, Outlook etc. and the Server products, SharePoint, BizTalk, and Office Communication Server etc. Personally I’m currently focused on SharePoint, but like to keep abreast of developments in other areas. ... read full post

Posted by:  Gavin Barron,   |  17 March 2008
Tags: SharePoint, Office Business Applications, Information Worker