The Missing Skills of Young SharePoint Developers

March 9, 2012

In a lighthearted blog entry, Jussi on SharePoint addresses the often forgotten fact that for all of our complaining, IT is well optimized and performs quite well in our current day. So what’s the problem with high performance you might ask? In, “The missing skillsets of future SharePoint rock stars,” Jussi argues that this has created a younger generation of developers, specifically SharePoint developers who neglect the basic IT skills of former days.

Jussi writes:

The problem is that mostly everything you use just works. You don’t need to worry whether or not the operating system is about to crash. You’ll have enough RAM most of the time, so forget about spending any time optimizing how your applications use memory. Your laptop? It boots in <30 seconds, or resumes from sleep in less than 2 seconds. Gone are they days when we had to write memos on a piece paper as a backup, ‘because the computer might crash sooner rather than later’.

This relative ease of use leads the author to propose that SharePoint developers need to make an effort to cultivate certain forgotten skills:

Any proper SharePoint specialist worth their salt should be fairly serene doing basic stuff like configuring Active Directory, debugging network and authentication issues, reading through code and Powershell scripts and troubleshooting weird errors.

While these are not glamorous jobs, they are necessary. There may also be another option for SharePoint developers wanting to maximize their time and energy. Many third-party enterprise solutions can improve performance and user experience without a great investment in time and training. A smart solution like Fabasoft Mindbreeze can brings a suite of solutions together to make everyone happy, users and developers alike. Check into Fabasoft Mindbreeze Enterprise and see if their offerings can increase your organization’s efficiency and performance.

Emily Rae Aldridge, March 9, 2012

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