Comments on: If you know where you’re going, you can start from anywhere

By: Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:14:58 +0000

Well said. I have had this conversation many times and it’s still so hard to steer folks away from “… but can ____ be done in SharePoint?” I repeat (AGAIN), “Don’t worry about that- just tell me what you want to do!”

Then later, the requirement questions come. I think they think they are “helping” by trying to skip the first part and go directly to the requirements-based feedback they “think” you want. Not true!!

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By: Ricknology

Ricknology — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:25:34 +0000

Mark,

Love the idea. I get that question all the time; ‘what is that SharePoint you are tweeting a about?’ At work the hardest thing I find is to get people to think of SharePoint as a business process solver. I’ll here something come up and their solution doesn’t even consider SharePoint, even with all of the discussion and current use of the product we use on a daily basis. Though i must say, something came up there other day and someone suggest SharePoint as a solution and I finally felt that maybe all of this force feeding has finally taken hold a bit!

Count me in for watching a Ustream event.

Rick

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By: Errett Cord

Errett Cord — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:02:22 +0000

Mark,

Great post.

Please contact me when it’s on UStream.

I’m a huge cyclist and I remember talking to you in L.V. last fall about your trip accross America.

Going out for a fifty miler right now.

Have a good one.

Errett

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By: Marc Anderson

Marc Anderson — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:24:29 +0000

I like articles like this, too. Somehow I always know that they are going to head back around to SharePoint (on this site, how not?) sooner or later, but stopping along the way to hear about someone growing up in a sod house makes it more fun.

And, any chance that we can take to turn the question back around to “What [business] problem am I trying to solve?” is worth the trip.

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By: Xene

Xene — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:03:17 +0000

Hey cool little voting gadget! Glad someone agrees with me!

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By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:42:48 +0000

Please also count me in for UStream.

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By: Xene

Xene — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:42:01 +0000

These thoughtful articles are some of my favorites. Perhaps it is just me, but I find that anything rewarding can be used as an analogy to Sharepoint. This spring as I cleaned out my garden I realized that Sharepoint mirrored the same process, I didn’t rip up my entire yard in one swoop and try to implement a massive garden structure all at once. I took my front door, my highest profile area and laid in a formal greeting area, that solution met the needs. The next project led me to the back where I built an entirely different area for entertaining. Years I’ve been working in developing the yard, some solutions are small, with big impact; some are invisible, like digging in 100 feet of drainage tile. Not always the most fun, but ultimately the reward of the end result is magnificient!

And I do it all exactly the way I implement Sharepoint – plan well (consider future maintenance), learn as you go, ask the experts questions, remember those lessons next time, and always keep an open mind!

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By: Dave Pyett

Dave Pyett — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:08:32 +0000

Count me in for the UStream

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