The 5 stages of SharePoint denial

Based on the Kübler-Ross –model, there are also 5 stages of SharePoint denial.

These are:

1. Hope: “It should work”; “I hope this deploys” and “The page is still loading but it should work”. Hope is usually a passing feeling, before stage 2.

2. Belief: “It worked yesterday”; “I’ve read about this on Technet and someone wrote a blog entry about this”; “Well, it’s a feature so why wouldn’t it work?”. Belief follows hope, when you still feel a diminishing hope, yet truly believe the thing you are trying to get to work, in fact should work when you put in enough hours. This stage usually lasts for days, sometimes even weeks.

3. Hollowness: “I don’t know what else I can do to fix it”; “Maybe I should reconfigure the whole farm once more”; “Is there anyone I could call about this?”. When all hope is lost, and most belief is gone, there’s only a hollow feeling left. Is there anything worth fighting for anymore?

4. Besserwisser: “I’ve done that but those other guys have no idea what they are doing”; “Who coded this?”; “And they spent how many days doing this?”. If you manage to survive to stage 4, you become a besserwisser. You seem to know how to do anything with SharePoint, and anything anybody else is doing, is a steaming pile of java. You’ve been there, so you surely know – and you’ve got the scars to prove it.

5. Alcoholism: “Why bother? Anybody have beer?”; “If it deploys, I’ll have a drink. Otherwise, I’ll have a drink”.