Generalist

We were SharePoint consultants. That sounds narrow, but it wasn’t — to do the job properly you had to speak PowerShell, Azure, M365, Microsoft Graph, HTTP, frontend, backend, DevOps. You were a specialist in SharePoint, but you couldn’t survive without being a generalist underneath it. A client came to us with a broken webpart. Built by another firm, SPFx, pulling org data via the Microsoft Graph. The list of people it needed to display had grown far beyond what anyone planned for. Hundreds of API calls, sequential, one after another. The page took forever to load. The previous team had solved it like SharePoint developers — they’d fetched what they needed, the way they knew how. ...