In this second of a three part blog I will describe Value Management in SharePoint and how it can be applied when creating or implementing a new SharePoint solution. Note that in fact this can also be applied to existing SharePoint environments where there is a requirement to extend or enhance...
Value Management in ...
This is the first of a three part article. You may have heard statements like: ‘I need a good return on my investment of SharePoint’ ‘I am paying a lot of money for SharePoint and people, what is it there to do?’ ‘I need to know what to do and what not to do...
Service Delivery – Working in harmony with externa...
Time for a service delivery article, looking at working with external SharePoint agencies in a SharePoint environment in BAU… If you are operating and managing SharePoint environments for your clients, you may find that there is a business requirement for enhancements or modifications to something to take place which would alter your controlled SharePoint environment. This business requirement may be one where there is a call for the intended work to be carried out by utilising services from an external ‘SharePoint’ on a sub-contracted basis. Now, before continuing, and for arguments sake, this article does not consider how the...
The swopping of SharePoint Heads – Capacity ...
Hi there, time for another blog from the evangelical Geoff marching into the land of SharePoint Capacity Planning. Start with an example if I may. Met up with a client who needed a SharePoint environment, and needs someone to help with a specification. Following a number of briefs, seemingly the clients’ requirement is a requirement for a central place so that users could manage online content, using tools such as Visio, Word, Excel. So, spent some evenings designing the user specification, then worked with the client to produce a design and technical specification. This is the fun part, having to move your mind-set from the...
SharePoint – T...
A SharePoint Implementation combining a detailed Project Plan and Quality Plan allows you to capture key pieces of information; namely, the commitment to spend (i.e. what the budget is); the schedule (when it is needed by) and the scope (what is SharePoint going to solve). If you are about to...