ABOUT THE AUTHOR: JONATHAN STUCKEY
Hear It From Me
For years I've provided a touch-point for people seeking real-world, unvarnished advice on Microsoft technologies, cloud-adoption, SharePoint and on occasion - how to avoid strains from putting in posts and fencing (don't ask).
I have spent my career working in big IT firms - from Sun Microsystems through to Microsoft, and more recently consulting for companies looking for practical, real-world delivery of Microsoft 365 and Cloud-services
You want a job-history, please look-me-up on LinkedIn.
You want practical advice with an occasional (random) analogy and wry look on things - ping me a note.
For help in finding your way through the mountainous marketecture from big IT - click the button.
[nope - I'm not in this picture either]
FACTS & FIGURES
The author by the numbers
100%
Yorkshire born and bread
31%
Consulting career
55%
Microsoft career
42%
Sarcastic
18 YRS
in New Zealand
1%
Delusional (I'm still young!)
73%
Practical experience
74.2%
Confident
16.3%
Cynical
AREAS OF KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE
While my experience and knowledge has lead me to establish business and information strategies for organisations, create and implement operational governance models, and develop coaching & mentoring programmes for information management and technology groups - but the only things people remember me for are:
SHAREPOINT SOLUTIONS
Design, deployment and adoption
MICROSOFT TEAMS
Unified Communications, deployment and adoption
OFFICE SUITE
Office application integration to Microsoft 365
MICROSOFT PURVIEW
Operational model, role-based access, service configuration
MICROSOFT COPILOT
Planning, coaching and adoption. Use-case development
ABOUT THE SITE
My assumptions when you arrived here, are you have at least...
Microsoft 365
BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE
My primary assumption is if you've found me, you have some knowledge of Microsoft 365 cloud-services, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and Purview, and are likely to be investing in platform for your organisation
But really what you are after is understanding how to take advantage of these tools to improve your internal life with Projects, Publishing and Collaboration.
SharePoint design and configuration
INTERMEDIATE OR ABOVE
If you are here, there's a good chance that you have a min. of intermediate level SharePoint solution design, good understanding of service architecture and understand the difference between when you do and do not need to use development to achieve business outcomes.
If you're looking for code-snippets, or drill-down on extending platform with SPfx/Fluid UI/PnP - you are in the wrong place.
Information Architecture
SOLUTION DESIGN
Given I spend over 50% of my (working) life asking questions, understanding problems and defining options people have, a lot of the content here assumes you have some understanding of Information Architecture and Solution Design.
I also fundamentally believe in configure-first, develop last approach.
What is going to happen next...
IDLE CURIOSITY
A bit like the morbid curiosity which causes people to gork at a road-accident, I assume that some-how, in some way your fascination in the macabre has lured your eyes in here.
So consider: I do not, and will not, advocate for a solution or approach I do not think works. I will always try to present both sides of the debate when I give my opinions. I really do not like putting in fence-posts.