SharePoint is big now, really BIG. If you are already experienced with it, then it’s a constant battle to keep up. If you are new to it – it’s a big mountain to climb! My question this week is :
How do you learn SharePoint and keep your skills up to date?
Win-an-eBook Wednesdays is a small three day contest that we hold every week. The Prize? An O’reilly eBook for your choice! Furthermore, if you win, you also get the chance to ask the community whatever question you want and be the judge for next week’s contest!
You have until Sunday, June 2nd (10pm GMT) to answer this question!
Like SharePoint, they are two different challenges to learn SharePoint, which to scale in and scale out. There are way too many things SharePoint covers like integrated security with AD, SQL, Search etc. As a SharePoint dev or Infrastructure expert(IT Pro), we need to be aware of many things even though there is a level of abstraction and we have DBA’s and other admins because it will help to utilize SharePoint better which is better ROI for business. So, taking one topic at a time to scale out and learn about them is one way to familiarize yourself with various components, so far being book smart is sort of alright. But to scale in, we need understand the plumbing details in certain areas to be an expert and to quench our thirst, for which we need to work on few things again and again to be able to do them seamlessly which happens only through real projects, although dummy projects would not hurt but it does not beat the real experience where you face issues and address them.
To stay up to date,
1) Join Sharepoint-community.
2) Follow and connect to many skilled people through blogs and twitter.
3) Keep reading and experiment.
4) Have fun 🙂
