Photo credit: Seb Matthews

The London masterclass on SharePoint Collaboration and Governance, presented in partnership with AdeoPoint is now done. Many thanks to Seb Matthews from AdeoPoint for making it possible for me to present in London today. My voice still sounded dreadful, but I got through it.

17 people came to the masterclass today. That was a good number (it wasn’t on the Ireland scale, to be sure), but it meant that the discussion and engagement was at a different level. I really enjoyed presenting, discussing, thinking, facilitating … even with a sore voice.

One of the group exercise we did today was look at the process of document co-authoring, and how a change of work practice can make a huge change. Using Excel, we modelled a 4-stage review cycle between Sally (lead author) and five reviewers. We then changed the work practice (stick the document in SharePoint, check-out and edit, check-back-in), and re-modelled the process. Key discovery from the group: doing it the second way was 55% faster in actual work time, and resulted in 87% less copies of the same document. That was about the same point we got to yesterday when we did the same exercise in Ireland. For such a simple change, that is a huge improvement!

So … thanks to everyone who came today, who took part, who spoke up, who asked questions, and who made me welcome. And great to meet people that I’ve traded communications with before — Emma for example. To you all … go great on Monday!