Author Archives: Andrew Woodward

SharePoint Governance – 5 Pillars Activity Spreadsheet

21apps Pillars of Governance

If you have followed 21apps for any time you will know we talk a lot about SharePoint Governance and have used the 5 pillars of governance as a simple way to define the core elements everyone should consider when checking … Continue reading

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SUGUK West Midlands – Whats new in 2013

Great turn out to this evenings SUGUK west midlands event in Wolverhampton for what is planned to be a full year of events. To demonstrate the benefit of the community my session on Whats new in 2013 was an eclectic … Continue reading

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Gamification – Psychology and Motivation

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This weeks lectures (oops, this draft post I forgot to publish) have been very informative and have a lot of resonance with the challenges faced when trying to get SharePoint adopted. If you’ve missed my previous posts on Gamification the … Continue reading

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Concerns for Information Architecture and SharePoint Online

Many of you will have done some planning around how your web applications and site collections are created and managed.  You will have been very aware of the boundaries that exist on the platform to ensure your use of SharePoint … Continue reading

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Who make up the SharePoint Centre of Excellence

To be successful a SharePoint Centre of Excellence needs diversity.  As an agile development team works best with developers, testers, designers and product owners working together, the same holds true for a SharePoint Centre of Excellence. There are a few … Continue reading

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Introducing the SharePoint Centre of Excellence

 “SharePoint – the operating system for the enterprise” The breadth of features and functions available in SharePoint today is vast, everything from simple discussion boards, records management, search, web content management, business intelligence, the list goes on. The challenge is … Continue reading

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SPC12 – SharePoint Centre of Excellence

The SharePoint Conference in Vegas is almost upon us – I for one am really looking forward to it.  Not least because I get to present on a subject that I am passionate about and have been working hard at … Continue reading

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Dilbert requirements

Twitter surfaces some great content and this Dilbert cartoon looking at the way requirements are formed… © Douglas Adams – http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1994-09-22/ I like to thinks that we have a much better approach to requirements gathering at 21apps with out Requirements … Continue reading

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Gamification Assignment 3

Gamification Assignment 3 Dialog Map

This was the output from the 3rd written assignment on the fantastic Coursera Gamification Course led by Kevin Werbach. The course is a new form of teaching and learning under the banner of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) that attracted … Continue reading

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Gamification Course Notes

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These notes are from the Coursera Gamification course and will be updated as I add to the notes during the course.  Unlike traditional mind mapping these notes use dialog mapping format to capture rationale and meaning. If you want to … Continue reading

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