Category: Project Management

  • Creating Good Requirements

    Good requirements share universal characteristics regardless of format. Here are the qualities every requirement should have, with a distinctly UX perspective.

  • Usability Testing: Why Aren’t We Doing It?

    A presentation on why usability testing is absent from most SharePoint projects, with a live test and analysis included.

  • Lost in Translation: User-Centered Design

    The phrase “user-centered design” causes more harm than good. Designing for activities and goals produces better applications than chasing user preferences.

  • Barriers to SharePoint Adoption

    Politics, culture, and technology create three distinct barriers to SharePoint adoption. Each requires a different strategy to overcome.

  • The Lie of Technology Agnosticism

    Consulting firms that claim to be “technology agnostic” are selling a dangerous lie. Implementation expertise doesn’t transfer as cleanly as they pretend.

  • The Wireframe Audiences

    Wireframes serve designers, customers, and project managers differently. The case for keeping them static and staying in your lane as an information architect.

  • The Four C’s to Sell MOSS

    Selling SharePoint to management comes down to four words: communication, collaboration, consolidation, and consistency.

  • Harvest Reports WordPress Plugin

    When freelancing I use the Harvest application to manage all of my time tracking. It has made invoicing painless, and while I got it thinking…

  • The Value-Up Paradigm

    The paradigms I’m going to contrast are how we view the entire development process. I will refer to two different paradigms: the first is the…

  • Engaging the Entire Development Team

    Before I left college the only experience I had in software development was as a one-man team. I did all the design and back-end development.…