Capability Checklist for Successful SharePoint - Eli Robillard's World of Blog.

Successful deployment of SharePoint is no different than any other corporate strategy or project, only the moving pieces change. The goals remain consistency,scalability, and success by whatever measures you choose. It never fails to disappoint me to see "best practises" that regurgitate project management principles without the salt or benefit of actual SharePoint experience.

So here it is, every SharePoint Best Practices article, presentation and book in a paragraph: You need shared vision, strong leadership as high up the food chain as possible, business-oriented goals and measures, clearly-defined scope, good communication, a crisp plan including risk mitigation and capacity to change, and an effective delivery team. During the build, you need to balance time, scope and available resources. Also like every other project, an effective way to begin is to list the capabilities you need to simulate your business. Start with a list of common complaints or bottlenecks in your processes, and the capabilities or changes that would provide relief. You don't need SharePoint, you need more effective teams, or bottom-up communication, or top-down communication, or document management, or records management, or alerting, or a corporate memory, or platform integration, or a place to collaborate with external partners, or some combination of these, or something else entirely. There you have it, go SharePoint!

Now to bring this back to reality. The following sections attempt to provide all of the capabilities required to give good SharePoint. Many are expanded to list their moving parts or to list the choices for providing the capability. Above all, enjoy.

Governance
Each of these roles can be expanded to a full team. The roles use the general term "specialist" to refer to the architect / integrator / designer / mentor / lead role(s).

Senior leadership: A platform-agnostic Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) or equivalent
SharePoint platform governance: standards oversight, project oversight
Business process simulation and platform integration: application specialist
Scalable navigation and discovery: taxonomy specialist, search specialist
Service level assurance: infrastructure specialist
Capability Checklist for Successful SharePoint - Eli Robillard's World of Blog.

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Pierre Erol GIRAUDY
Club MUG et MOSS FRANCE
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