“Cinderella, dressed in yella Went upstairs to present her charter With multiple teams, had to add scope How many requirements (for her SharePoint 2010 Records Governance Plan) were eventually wrote?
What Were the Steps that Ensured our Successful Implementation? SharePoint Training Session(S) Before any go-live of a new SharePoint 2010 platform or future SharePoint release, you first have to ensure successful training as well as identification of Power Users \ Super Users
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When you think about using a technology platform like SharePoint to facilitate the management of things like strategic planning and the project management process, there are a few different levels to consider: 1
One of the most-asked SharePoint questions has absolutely nothing to do with technology: How do we get started?
But this doesn't have to be the case - and you may already have the solution installed. SharePoint 2010 can provide a relatively simple way to track and manage project schedules, deliverables, and collaboration. Now, this is not meant to be a SharePoint commercial, and indeed there are a number of other solutions that can do this as well. I picked SharePoint for two reasons: it's probably already in use at your organization, and we have a course on how to use SharePoint as a collaboration platform
Unlike the waterfall approach , which stresses strict adherence to project plans, the agile method focuses primarily on adjusting to iterative change once a project is underway. This fluid approach to completing work, however, does not mean that agile proponents should throw upfront planning out the window. Strategic planning at the outset ensures that the right tasks get plucked from the backlog and assigned to the team. When it comes to strategic technology planning, I must say that I was impressed by MaineGeneral Health ’s presentation at HIMSS
I was reading Daniel Antion's post entitled Make SharePoint Simple , which made me think about my own transition into the topic of SharePoint productivity this past year. In his article, Dan shares some experience he's had recently with customers and students who are beginning to use SharePoint, and the feedback he has received consistently is that "SharePoint is too complicated
Your team must understand how to manage the complexities of an ever growing, always expanding list of customer demands, enhancements, and features. Increasingly, SharePoint has become a platform for change management. While few companies have yet to embrace Project Server, many companies have built out their own project management utilities on the platform, and gravitated toward the out of the box templates in SharePoint 2010 (I expect to see big improvements here in the next version of SharePoint, if not through partner solutions)
In presentations on migration and planning best practices for SharePoint, I often remark that every new SharePoint project begins as a Business Analyst activity...SharePoint is generally grossly understaffed
1 Comment - I believe that the BA role is critical for any successful deployment of any type of ECM (in addition to Sharepoint). Getting the right product is the first step; however, the BA is critical for implementation
I've given a number of presentations of late on the idea of building productivity into SharePoint planning, always beginning my talk with a short history lesson in collaborative tools and platforms