Ruven
Ruven Gotz is a Senior Consultant & SharePoint MVP with Navantis, a Microsoft Gold Partner based in Toronto, Canada. With over 20 years of IT industry experience, Ruven has spent the past seven years delivering award-winning SharePoint solutions for a wide range of clients. Working as a Business Analyst and Information Architect, Ruven is able to apply his eclectic education and varied experience in Psychology, Computer Science, Economics, Software Development and Training to get to the heart of complex problems. Ruven is a great communicator who is able to discuss technology concepts in language that is relevant to his audience, whether they are from IT or business. He has become a leader in the use of visual tools to help his clients and team members achieve shared understanding of problems and goals and shared commitment towards implementing a successful solution.
Ruven helps his clients understand that strong technical teams are necessary but not sufficient to deliver a successful result. A successful SharePoint project requires excellent planning, a good understanding of the client’s corporate culture, and thoughtful change management.
When he wants to get away from computers, you’ll find Ruven at the week-night races on Lake Ontario, sailing his keelboat, “In the Groove”.
(NOTE: Ideas and opinions on this blog are my own: I am not representing my employer.)
Ruven –
Thoroughly enjoyed your talk on Collecting Requirements for SharePoint at SharePoint Saturday in Annandale, Va back in August 2011. I think your approach makes such good sense, particularly when it comes to project planning for SharePoint, specifically for collecting business requiremenst to design SharePoint systrems that work.
I have been hard pressed to find anything as succint and practical as the information that you presented. Do you have that information in a slide deck, link, blog entry etc? I am newly tasked to do this and your data was spot on. The link that was to have been provided by SharePoint Saturday for the preso’s was never forthcoming and most of the books I have read start with suggesting demos which I don’t want to do
Any assistance would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Peter Brabson
MCT, MCSE
Thanks for your comment Peter. Your timing is just about perfect! I have a book coming out within the next few weeks that fully lays out my approach. You can see it here on Amazon: http://amzn.to/PracticalSP2010IA
You can also see a bunch of the slides that I use when I co-present with Richard Harbridge here: http://bit.ly/yVFh0r
-Ruven