Tips for using SPD Workflows to talk to 3rd party web services
Hi all One workflow action that anyone getting into SharePoint Designer 2013 workflow development needs to know is the Call HTTP Web Service action. This action opens up many possibilities for workflow...
View ArticleRewriting the knowledge management rulebook… The story of “Glyma” for SharePoint
Send to Kindle“If Jeff ever leaves…” I’m sure you have experienced the “Oh crap” feeling where you have a problem and Jeff is on vacation or unavailable. Jeff happens to be one of those people who’s...
View ArticleA “Glyma” of an idea…
Hiya A while back Kailash recorded an interview with me (over beers of course) for a project on his blog. During that interview, he asked me to elaborate on the story behind Glyma which has now been...
View ArticleJoin me learning Dialogue Mapping in the UK/Ireland in September
Hi all I will be in the UK in the first week of September for various matters (like watching Kate Bush in concert) and while I am there will be running a 2 day Dialogue Mapping introductory class. If...
View ArticleHelp me visualise the pros and cons of hybrid SharePoint 2013…
Like it or not, there is a tectonic shift going on in the IT industry right now, driven primarily by the availability of a huge variety of services hosted in the cloud. Over the last few years,...
View ArticleWhat? Even more epic than MOSS world!
Hi all Back on St Patricks Day in 2011, Christian Buckley and I commandeered a hotel piano in Wellington NZ and recorded an impromptu duet entitled “MOSS world” – a satirical take on many of the...
View ArticleSo what is this newfangled apps model anyway and why do I care? (part 1)
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Apps ModelSend to KindleHiya I’ve been meaning to write about the topic of the apps model of SharePoint 2013 for a while now, because it is a topic I am both...
View ArticleSo what is this newfangled apps model anyway and why do I care? (part 2)
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Apps ModelSend to KindleHiya This is the second post in some articles aimed at demystifying the SharePoint “apps” model for the strategic or business focused...
View ArticleA free IT Unity Webinar: Rewriting the Rulebook for Managing Knowledge
Hi all Just to let you know that I’ll be presenting a webinar with Christian Buckley on the topic of Glyma, Knowledge Management and SharePoint next week. If you have an interest in things like...
View ArticleSo what is this newfangled apps model anyway and why do I care? (part 3)
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Apps ModelSend to KindleHiya This is the third post in some articles aimed helping strategic or business focused users understand the SharePoint 2013 and...
View ArticleGlyma is now open source!
Hi all If you are not aware, my colleagues and I have spend a large chunk of the last few years developing a software tool for SharePoint called Glyma (pronounced “Glimmer”). Glyma is a very powerful...
View ArticleThe ASS Scale. The best 2*2 management model ever!
So today I was inspired to come out of blogging hibernation because I saw possibly the worst dodgy 2*2 management matrix ever. The piece below was something that was originally going to be part of my...
View ArticleMy new book about Teddies and fetishes is out…
Send to Kindle Hi all I am pleased to announce that my new business book, The Heretic’s Guide to Management: The Art of Harnessing Ambiguity is now available in ebook format (The print edition is...
View ArticleExplaining the new book in 3 minutes…
The power of video as a means to convey a message and engage an audience cannot be under-estimated. For my new book, The Heretics Guide to Management, we decided to record a video after Kailash had...
View ArticleTeddies, Fetishes and the Management Consulting Scam
Send to Kindle What if I told you that the key to becoming a successful management consultant was to become a Teddy Bear? What if I also told you that it involves fetishes? You might be re-checking the...
View ArticleRediscovering my curiosity at Creative Melbourne
As I write this I am somewhere over the middle of Australia, flying back to Perth after participating in a 3 day event that was fun, challenging and highly insightful. The conference was Creative...
View ArticleA Clever-workaround for Saving Photos to SharePoint from PowerApps
At the time of writing, a common request for PowerApps is to be able to able to upload photos to SharePoint. It makes perfect sense, especially now that its really easy to make a PowerApp that is bound...
View ArticleA Filename Generation Example for PowerApps with Flow
This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series OpenAPISend to KindleHiya A client recently asked to make a PowerApps proof of concept audit app for safety inspections. The gist was that a user would enter an...
View ArticleHow’s the weather? Using a public API with PowerApps (part 1)
This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series OpenAPISend to KindleIntroduction Okay citizen developers, listen up! This post and its forthcoming second part will teach you how to get PowerApps to connect to...
View ArticleHow’s the weather? Using a public API with PowerApps (part 2)
This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series OpenAPISend to KindleIntroduction Hi again This is the second half to a post that will use the OpenWeatherMap API in PowerApps. The business scenario is around...
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