In Sharepoint 2003, creating custom site definitions required diving into the file system, copying obscure directories, editing XML files, etc. Now, in MOSS 2007, you can create custom site templates from the MOSS interface. Create a site using whatever out-of-the-box starting template you want. Then configure it by adding or removing whatever Web Parts you…
From Techweb via today’s Boston Globe’s Business Filter column: Middle managers are drowning A new report says that middle managers are swamped by useless information and spend about a two hours a day looking for the data they need. And often, once they obtain the data, half of it has no value to their jobs….
Back in the day, when I worked at Renaissance Solutions (an unfortunately defunct boutique management consulting firm), we talked about the ideas of Solution Calls and Puts (think options on the stock market). I didn’t ever get comfortable with the words that we used for the ideas, but basically it was a clearinghouse metaphor for…
I saw a slideware software demo today that really impressed me. (I can’t disclose the source, as it was a confidential preview of an upcoming release.) Suffice it to say that the product will live in the the workflow space. What really got to me was how far applications like this have come. Most people…
“Look at a man’s Sharepoint sites and you will see software. Work a day in a man’s Sharepoint sites and you will know the man.” – Me (with an assist from NJB) paraphrasing someone much more quotable Don’t ever trust software for what it (or its makers, or its proponents) claim it can do. I can preach…