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The Business Analyst / Project Manager Combo

Posted on: Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 in: Project Management

Until I started looking for work as a Project Manager years ago, I did not know what a Business Analyst was. I knew the title existed, but I couldnt have explained to you what they actually did. I existed in happy ignorance regarding this subject for some time. Through the years, I found out that [...]

A Paradigm Shift in Semantic Web Deployment?

Posted on: Sunday, August 26th, 2007 in: Semantic Web

I am a big proponent of all things Semantic. I have a degree in Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Language was what held my interest over the years. Even the idea of Ontologies is something that I have somewhat of an emotional connection to; the relationship and existence of things within the world is partly [...]

High-Level Requirements; The Good, The Bad, The Ambivalent

Posted on: Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 in: Project Management

During the Discovery phase, High-Level Requirements can be a fair way to ascertain your effectiveness. If stakeholders sign off on your High-Level Requirements, you know you are not totally missing the boat. It is a good way to make sure you don’t put too much effort into doing more detailed Requirements that are not accurate. [...]

MOSS (SharePoint 2007) and 508 Compliance, Accessibility Standards

Posted on: Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 in: MOSS, Project Management, SEO

I will write more about this later, but I am putting it up now as much (or more) as a reference for myself as a post that may help folks. MOSS 2007 is an improvement to SPS 2003 in regard to Compliance, and this is a very handy chart for those of you concerned with [...]

Requirements, Risks, UnOffical Projects, and Pricey SharePoint Consultants.

Posted on: Sunday, August 5th, 2007 in: MOSS, Project Management

This has been a challenge. I am involved with a 2 million dollar project that is under tremendous time constraints. The project itself is a MOSS (SharePoint 2007) project, and it is very stressful because of a variety of reasons. Let me enumerate some of them, if only to vent.

This is not really a SharePoint [...]