Evolution

Everything in our universe follows the laws of thermodynamics. (Note I say “our” universe because for all we know there are other universes with different laws.) But is change always good? Too much change in a SharePoint system can lead to a breakdown of the system by accelerating the entropy. That is what IT infrastructure owners are resisting. Changing SharePoint without testing and doing a proper business impact assessment of the change and without review by the IT staff and the business can lead to rapid failure of the system. Think of too much change as being like the pressure the captain of the Titanic was under by the passengers and the owners of the ship to get to New York in record time. By doing so, he would increase the publicity ...

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