SharePoint Use Cases

Archive for July, 2008

29 Jul, 2008

Why SharePoint projects fail?

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint

Dan from Integrated Services, Inc. asked me to share my opinions on how to maximize your SharePoint investment. I will try to focus on how to avoid some of the classic mistakes that could ruin your project.
It does not make sense to reinvent the wheel here, so I will try to reuse some the classic [...]

23 Jul, 2008

The ribbon wars

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint| office

When I am advising customers about potential SharePoint to implementation I often hear questions like this one:
Q: Toni, we would like to use SharePoint 2007 but we are still using Office 2003, what should we do?

If you ask our friends at Microsoft the easy answer is: Upgrade to the latest version now!
Bear in mind, that [...]

14 Jul, 2008

Versioning Hell – Part 2

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint

In my last post I tried to explain what are the limitations of SharePoint versioning and things you need to know when you are planning and configuring a SharePoint site. In this post I will try to prepare you for the questions you will be asked on SharePoint end-user training. As in last post, the [...]

08 Jul, 2008

Versioning Hell – Part 1

Posted by: Toni Frankola In: SharePoint

One of the key features of SharePoint is versioning. But if not planned correctly versions can become your nightmare on a SharePoint project. During project planning phase perform requirements analysis on versions and once implemented educate end-users on how to use versioning correctly.
Versioning is a very good feature but Office documents can be huge [...]

Last week I read a great book by Scott Rosenberg (founder of Salon). If you ever worked on a serious software project, you will probably experience a deja-vu (like I did [:)]). The book is a real-life story about a company founded by Mitchell Kapor and a team of developers who tried to develop a [...]

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