SharePoint Katas

A SharePoint Kata? What’s that? Well, it all goes back to Coding Katas, of course? Still not clear? Ok, let’s go back to the real beginning. In many forms of martial arts, a Kata is a series of exercises that is practiced over and over regularly in order to hone and improve one’s skills. Sounds like a good idea, no? So much so that Dave Thomas coined the term Code Kata as a practice of doing something similar to improve one’s coding skills. He’s even got a whole site dedicated to Coding Katas.

So, now we’re back up the stack to SharePoint Katas. The goal of this site is to propose and discuss Katas related to SharePoint. However, I don’t want us to just limit them to development-related Katas, because I think that administrators and even power users can benefit from doing some regular activities. Here are some possible benefits:

1. Improving, refining and honing existing skills, so we get better at what we do already
2. Repeating Katas over time, so we don’t forget something we did and knew in the past
3. Learning new SharePoint skills as we get to try a small (e.g. 30 minute) task focused on something we haven’t done before.

Some of the best Katas are those done in pairs! The goal of the SharePoint Katas site is to help us improve, share, discuss and learn together, so get involved by suggesting your own Katas, commenting on the ones there already, and helping to build some real SharePoint Ninjas!

Check it out at http://sharepointkatas.com/