What motivated you to work with SharePoint as a developer, end user, architect, consultant, manager, business owner or else.
10 years ago I saw that SharePoints’ combination of tasks, documents and security could be the perfect combination to manage our finance projects. It has improved ever since. And I still like it, although it is a Love-hate relation.
So , what is your motivation to be into SharePoint?
I’ve liked working with web technologies since 1998, enjoyed the power of hyperlinking, sharing knowledge and collaborating with others.
Six years ago my employer needed a better platform for our Intranet other than FrontPage on IIS on an internal server. We played with WSS 2.0 and saw the benefits of SharePoint, the security, the ability to create team sites, track tasks and support document collaboration.  Soon after, we moved to a managed, hosted MOSS 2007 service so that external staff could easily access the Intranet and various project sites. It just snowballed from there…
We’re upgrading to the newest flavour this summer.
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Had to “re-invent” myself due to company downsizing and not really knowing what was going to happen to me. Â I actually had never heard of SharePoint, but stumbled across it while standing over a former co-workers shoulder. Â I asked ‘what is that you’re working on’? Answer…’this is SharePoint’. Â Went back to my pc…Googled SharePoint, and as the old cliche’ says, ‘the rest is history’.
Interestingly I come from a service management background. Mainly MOSS 2007, then some 2010 and now SharePoint online.
I have alwasy been about delivering, SharePoint has allowed me to do this. I often think that SP Developers who come from a tertiary programming background massively over complicate things!
I like working with different departments, levels of competence and personalities. SharePoint allows you to be the guy who gets things done, fast and in a manner that fits with the company goal.
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Got to be honest.. when I first got into SharePoint.. it was the big $$$, lots of jobs, and lot’s of opportunities.Â
Now? It’s the fact that SharePoint is always a challenge, and it has the best community! Â
Hi André
I started using SharePoint 2010 a couple years back as part of a contract I was working on. Fell in love with it straight away. Now working on a SharePoint contract helping an organisation update their current version to SharePoint Online. Hopefully making it more relevant to their business needs.
Great question by the way. Look forward to hearing about other people’s experiences.
Mark.
