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InfoPath: Adding a button to switch between views

Posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:45 PM by lauraj
The ability to have multiple views of information and multiple uses for forms is one of the great features of InfoPath. And yet, any person responsible for supporting the users working with the forms can tell you that it can be a real challenge to users Read More...
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Cross-Site Groups in SharePoint

Posted Wednesday, March 09, 2005 8:50 AM by lauraj
There's a great article by Adam Macaulay on MSD2D about using Cross-Site groups to manage your SharePoint users . It's written from a CorasWorks perspective, but don't let thinking it's a promotional piece keep you from reading it -- it has lots of excellent Read More...
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Web Part Deployment Best Practices?

Posted Thursday, June 24, 2004 10:33 PM by lauraj
In articles on MSDN that talk about creating basic web parts , they talk about deployment by importing a .DWT. However, there is also an article on “ Using Wppackager to Package and Deploy Web Parts for Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Read More...
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Working with Korby

Posted Saturday, March 13, 2004 7:02 PM by lauraj
I got to spend Friday afternoon talking with Tommy and Korby and then collaborating with Korby on a brief demo that we're going to do together for a leadership team. They've all heard about wikis and want to know more about them and their possibilities. Read More...
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One of the joys of working with Duncan

Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 10:19 PM by lauraj
I've talked before about our InfoPath form associated with a SharePoint (WSS) library that we use for status reporting ( ). I use a 'week of' field and custom views for grouping status reports for a specific week. The date needs to be set to the same Read More...
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CNet: Google and Social Networking

Posted Friday, January 23, 2004 2:52 AM by lauraj
Google tip-toed into the hot market of online social networks with the quiet launch of Orkut.com on Thursday, CNET News.com has learned. The search company, which is expected to go public this year, is flexing its power with its Internet fans by constantly Read More...
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Decision Trade-offs

Posted Monday, January 19, 2004 3:25 AM by lauraj
As I was catching up on my reading last night, I found this post . Peter Torr was talking about "always making the wrong decision", and asking for forgiveness in advance for making *someone* unhappy when their project is released. (Peter works on the Read More...
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My traveling favorites

Posted Saturday, November 08, 2003 11:56 PM by lauraj
For a while now, I've been using a Blogger page as a traveling favorites and personal knowledge management system -- it's very handy.  I keep it as my browser homepage on my home and work computers, and on someone else's computer, it's only a URL Read More...
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The rule of 3

Posted Monday, October 20, 2003 1:21 AM by lauraj
Remember to apply the rule of three with decision-making. If you don't have three valid options, (one of which might be to continue on) you don't understand the problem. If you think your only option is to maintain the status quo, you're not working to Read More...
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Warning: This is NOT an accurate representation of how the project will unfold

Posted Monday, October 20, 2003 1:10 AM by lauraj
(True North pgs, Inc.) has long proposed getting a stamp for every documented plan or schedule that says "Warning: This is NOT an accurate representation of how the project will unfold." Every really experienced project manager knows this -- yet somewhere Read More...
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When to outsource

Posted Monday, October 20, 2003 12:59 AM by lauraj
David Anderson quotes an answer by his boss on outsourcing at an all hands meeting.  We will outsource when there is no knowledge associated with an activity, such as repetitive execution of test plans. We will not outsource where there is knowledge Read More...
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Agile methods for assessing progress

Posted Monday, October 20, 2003 12:42 AM by lauraj
Robert Martin  points out that the important thing about Agile methods is that they produce real data, and data is what you need in order to really know where you are.  Compare that to how most software projects are run. They begin with Read More...
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Outsourcing

Posted Monday, October 20, 2003 12:30 AM by lauraj
I've been thinking about outsourcing a lot recently.  The difference in the apparent project costs is very appealing, from a management standpoint, but I wonder if outsourcing large chunks of development can really be successful over the long term.  Read More...
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What I wonder about FOO camp

Posted Wednesday, October 15, 2003 2:06 AM by lauraj
FOO camp sounds pretty amazing... and also unreal, really, to a peon like me ;-)  I've read several of the write-ups, and I'm intrigued by the way the sessions got organized (no surprise here).  A couple of people alluded to it, and Jeremy Zawodny Read More...
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Johanna Rothman on Agile techniques

Posted Friday, October 10, 2003 2:27 AM by lauraj
Johanna is one of those people who, if I'd never met her, I would hold her in awe. She has great insights, really gets managing product development, and is an all-round good person, too.  Plus, she works amazingly hard.  Today she was talking Read More...
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