“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” (Albert Einstein)

I’ve run across several interesting webinars, articles, etc. the past few weeks. There’s no underlying theme or “take over the world” vision here–just random SharePoint deep thoughts. Enjoy!

2010 vs. 2013 Usability Showdown

High Monkey Consulting recently released the findings of their heuristic usability tests for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013. They asked a small group of testers (all of which had no prior SharePoint experience) to perform a series of end-user, power user and site administration functions on SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2013. The goal was to see which SharePoint version offered the easiest-to-use OOTB (Out Of The Box) end-user experience.

While this was a small (and unscientific) study, it provided some interesting results. I recommend checking out High Monkey’s blog to learn about the results.

Surf’s Up: Your Governance Visualized

Ant Clay published a new SharePoint governance article on NothingButSharePoint.com this week. If you haven’t read my blog post “The celery effect” and other lessons learned from The SharePoint Governance Manifesto and checked out Ant Clay’s work on disruptive thinking about SharePoint problems, I highly recommend taking a look. This latest article (aptly titled Surf’s Up: Your Governance Visualized) offers a visual methodology for outlining your wicked SharePoint governance problems. Very interesting.

Your SharePoint User Is Not Stupid

In her recent blog post Your SharePoint User Is Not Stupid, Tamara Bredemus reminds us to meet our end-users where they live. And since most of our end-users are not riding on (nor have ever visited) the SharePoint bandwagon, it’s time for us to hop off the bus. Remember: your SharePoint end-users were not hired for their SharePoint expertise. So give ’em a break!