The next time I see a requirements document which says they want “collaboration” my response is going to be to ask…
“Why do you want to cooperate treasonably with a foreign power?”
Maybe that will jar people into asking what they mean by collaboration. (Asking what they mean by collaboration doesn’t seem to work in most cases.)
It is possible to believe that there is nothing left to be done. That all of the roles outlined thus far is all that is needed to make the process work. However, the role of the development manager is critical to the long-term success of the software development team. The role that the development manager plays – particularly when interacting with the project manager – is essential to a continuously improving process. (If you’ve not been following the series, you might want to read Cracking the Code: Breaking Down the Software Development Roles.)
The development manager’s role can be described as “everything else”. Although accurate this description is not very illuminating.
The development management role is the role whose purpose it is to keep the vision on track. This is much like a CEO, who sets the vision for an organization. This of course differs from the COO, who-like a project manager-ensures the day-to-day operations. While it’s the project manager’s goal to get the project to the finish line, it is the Development Manager ‘s responsibility to look ahead to make sure that the finish line is the right finish line to be reaching. While the project management position is a management position, the development manager role is a leadership position. Click here to see how the the Deployment role fits within the full organizational chart.
Read more of the article at http://www.developer.com/java/ent/article.php/3529081
[Author’s Note: I really enjoyed the mental exercise that writing this series brought. It was a good way for me to clarify my thinking around the various roles in the software development process. I hope that it can provide a framework for understanding how people fit into the process in your organization. The next series is on Coding standards and starts in just a few weeks. I’m always happy to get input on what you think should or shouldn’t be in coding standards.]
Another one of those lovely SharePoint error messages … This one leaves me wondering what I do when it doesn’t work the second time I try it. (Or the hundredth since I’m getting it back from code running against the API.)
… I’ve got to get my library of least favorite SharePoint error messages up.
If anyone’s interested this one came up when trying to get SPWeb from SPSite.OpenWeb with a GUID … that is valid.
Rob
So, I can probably replicate the SPS audiences using IRuntimeFilter if I can figure out how to force the WSS sites to default in personal view even for those without any personalization to the site.
However, without some way of inserting the web part storage key or some other value into the IsIncludedFilter property of a web part while it’s being imported, I’m not sure how to make this interface any more useful than the SPS application of it. I’ve not found a way to inject properties to every web part as it’s added yet…
Is anyone else playing with this interface?
If you’re having trouble getting your team to execute on its strategy then you may need to lay out the path in more detail than you already have. Here’s how.
Many organizations find developing a strategy a difficult and time consuming process, one that they’re so exhausted by they just hope that it will implement itself. If you’re having trouble getting your team to execute on its strategy then you may need to lay out the path in more detail than you already have. Here’s how.
In most organizations, strategy is just a rough idea of where the organization wants to go. It’s an ideal view devoid of the distractions that the real world brings. Understanding that a strategy isn’t real helps to illuminate the fact that there’s a gap between the current reality and the new vision.
Never was this as true as it was at the Fishburn Group. The Fishburn Group had been in the recycling industry for years but recognized the change that was sweeping the nation as technology began to be cycled through organizations at an ever increasing pace. They were becoming so overwhelmed with material that they couldn’t find a home for it.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/create-a-path-to-reach-your-strategy/
As some of you know, I write a weekly newsletter for Tech Republic — Strategies that Scale. That newsletter is targeted towards IT managers of small and mid-sized organizations. The goal is to provide useful information that helps them grow their IT organization, and their organization as a whole.
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Something I ran across the other day is that the default content index for Portal Content has an exclusion in it so that it won’t search the actual pages of the Portal. If you have content editor web parts, or other content that you want to make sure that SharePoint does index, you’ll want to go into SharePoint and remove the exclusion for pages. You can follow these steps to remove the exclusion
The next time the portal content index is refreshed you’ll start getting content from the web part pages as well.
SharePoint’s support for REST (query string parameters) on the search.aspx (Portal Server Search/Search Results Page) is very powerful. However, once you get past the basics of passing it a search string (k … short for keywords) the documentation gets a bit fuzzy. Here’s one thing that I was able to do with search.aspx…
First, a few parameters…
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| k | Keywords – General Search |
| tp | Type of document (I’ve found Person and Document very handy.) |
| s | Scope — Think Search Scopes from the search drop-down list |
| pt | Property — Any of the custom properties that SharePoint indexes. IFilters put these in. |
| d | Date — apparently required when you’re searching for properties |
So the next bit is how to encode the properties. Here are a few ASCII/Hex Codes you may need
| Code | Punctuation |
|---|---|
| %3a | : (Colon) |
| %2e | . (Period) |
| %23 | # (Hash, Pound, etc.) |
| %2c | , (Comma) |
So if you want to search for the word ‘spacey’ in any text in a document in a search scope named fuzzy you would have a URL like: http://server/search.aspx?tp=Document&s=fuzzy&k=spacey
It gets a tad bit more complicated when you want to search only in a property not in the full text. First, you have to find the property you want in Manage Properties, and then you have to setup the search … When you add the property to the search you have to add a single character specifier indicating the type of the property before you start it’s name — mostly you’re dealing with Strings so ‘S’ is appropriate. Then you have to put commas after the property name the keyword Contains and another comma — all encoded of course. Next, once I search for a property I have to add a date specifier to the query. The title property is really urn:schemas.microsoft.com:fulltextquery.displaytitle. So if I wanted to find the same thing in only the title property I’d do this: http://server/search.aspx?tp=Document&s=fuzzy&pt=Surn%3aschemas%2emicrosoft%2ecom%3afulltextqueryinfo%3adisplaytitle%2cContains%2cSpacey&2cAnd%2c&d=All
Clear as mud right? It’s not that bad, basically describing the property and url encoding all of the special characters makes it look ugly. If it weren’t encoded it would look like this..http://server/scope.aspx?tp=Document&s=fuzzy&pt=Surn:schemas.microsoft.com:fulltextqueryinfo:displaytitle,Contains,Spacey,And,&d=All still not pretty but certainly much more readable.
I hope this helps when you want to be able to create links to property searches.
There’s a difference in the skills sets for leadership and those for management. Learn the difference and how to incorporate the best of both worlds in your organization.
Early in my career, I thought that leadership was what the people at the very top of the organization did and that management was what all of the people in the middle of the organizational structure did. However, while this positional view is correct in many organizations, it does not need to be that way. Management and leadership are both necessary components of a successful organization of any size.
The role of a leader in any organization is to set the direction. A leader is the first to envision a future position for the organization and first to evangelize that position. Leadership is about finding a point on the horizon and saying, loudly and firmly, we should go there.
Management focuses on keeping the ship upright and moving in the direction that it’s headed. It’s not about picking a point on the horizon and going there. Management is about plotting progress towards the spot on the horizon.