Category Archives: Visualisation

The Visual Thinking Revolution is Here!

Doodle Revolution

If you have followed our activities over the past year or so you may have noticed that we have become a lot more visual in what we do and how we present information. It’s not that we’ve gone all “arty-farty” … Continue reading

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That Ain’t No Infographic…

In response to a growing number of tweets, photos and blog posts claiming to be showing the next cool infographic, I was compelled to write this blog post because the majority of you… “…just ain’t creating anything like an infographic” … Continue reading

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The SharePoint Hippy & the Channel Islands SharePoint User Group

Are you a SharePoint Hippy

Myself and Andrew Woodward had an awesome 24hours whirlwind expedition down to the Channel Islands, Jersey, for their 1st official SharePoint User Group. While waiting for our flight to Jersey (via Guernsey apparently!) and influenced by something that Paul Culmsee mentions in his new … Continue reading

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Building Trust as you roll out SharePoint

Hopes and Fears

One of the big challenges with rolling out anything that changes the way people work is getting people to accept it and make the transition.  This post isn’t looking at the wider subject of user adoption strategies but covers a … Continue reading

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Cartoon: SharePoint Stakeholder Fog of Despair!

SharePoint Stakeholder Fog of Despair

We all have those SharePoint projects where life would be great if the client stakeholders stopped arguing with each other and actually got on with delivering value for their organisation… Take some solace in the fact that you are not … Continue reading

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UK Gov Camp 2012 – A Graphic Recording

Ant Sketchnoting at UK Gov Camp 2012

Gov Camp 2012 kindly hosted by Microsoft UK was as awesome as ever. I had a great time, met with inspiring people, learnt lots and added a new dimension to my experience this time by creating sketchnotes (graphic recordings) of every … Continue reading

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Cartoon: Estimates

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This cartoon was from Paul Culmsee and supports his blog series on estimating and this one on Charlie Sheen (trust me you will enjoy).  

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Graphic Recording of The Lean Startup Event with Eric Ries

Andrew Woodwards - The Lean Start-up with Eric Ries Live Doodle

Monday evening myself and Andrew were lucky enough to have tickets to go see the man himself, Eric Ries talk about his book, The Lean Startup. The book is awesome in itself and some of the principles form a key … Continue reading

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Cartoon: Dawning Realisation

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This was inspired by the times when I’ve been with business users working through their requirements. Its seems inevitable that a requirement crops up that is part of Enterprise Edition – which IT decided wasn’t affordable.

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Change only happens when you avoid being pickled!

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Prescott’s Pickle Principle: “Cucumbers get more pickled than brine gets cucumbered.” The principle describes the effect of people who join an organisation (as a cucumber in the analogy) full of enthusiasm, only to find over time they become just another … Continue reading

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