How to Run a Successful SharePoint Saturday
On January 5th, 2013 the SharePoint community will reach a major milestone: the 5th anniversary of SharePoint Saturday. From its meager beginnings in Virginia...
Category: Random Thoughts
Improvements on SP2013 Error Messaging
Ah Twitter – sometimes you inform, sometimes you waste our time, and sometimes you entertain for hours. I happened across a Tweet from Brett...
SharePoint’s Circle of Life
When I joined Microsoft in 2006, it was at the tail-end of SPS2003, and organizations were preparing to make the move to MOSS2007. My...
When Marketing is Effective
In the late 1990’s, I took a role as Director of Project Management for a newly public technology company based south of market in...
The Problem With Community
Building community takes time and effort. The problem is that few are willing to do what it takes, and in a sustained manner, to...
Re-Thinking the Performance Review
In her October 2011 Harvard Business Review article The Cure for Horrible Bosses, Rosabeth Moss Kanter identifies many of the all-too-familiar pains associated with...
Microsoft will dominate the tablet space, as well
How many years now have we been hearing that Microsoft was about to wither and die, either shrinking down or going away in some...
The Product Definition Dilemma
The success of a product or service in this modern day and age is seen as an unpredictable event – presented as the culmination...
It’s all about timing
In January 2001, I closed a deal with Rational Software (pre-IBM acquisition) to sell the assets of my little software company. After 3.5 years...
Do We Have Any Competitive Threats?
<rant> Ok, is anyone besides me completely bored by this question, and the inevitable back and forth dialog surrounding it – no matter what...
