From a planning perspective, what are the very basic areas that one needs to think of when going down the route of creating a SharePoint solution, whether its a site, or farm, or even a workflow solution. I have attempted to answer this by building a presentation key covering planning,...
Value Engineering in...
Welcome to the third and final part of my Value Management article concerning how to define and apply a model for solution architecture in SharePoint. If you have just jumped into this article, without reading the first two I urge you to go back and read the first two articles – here...
Value Management in ...
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...
Ten Steps to a successful implementation of ShareP...
People have been requesting me do a shortened article to cover SharePoint Implementation from a higher level; a kind of whats my the key steps required to deliver SharePoint to a client. Please note there’s a whole bunch of webcasts coming soon to go into some more detail on each of the steps, so watch this space. If you need further information go ahead and give me a shout! Happy Reading! One final point – if the following does not display correctly then please use this link: http://www.geoffevelyn.com/spssite/mmap/spimpl/index.html ...
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...
Service Delivery – W...
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...
Do you UAT SharePoin...
Got a query today concerning User Acceptancy Testing (UAT) on SharePoint. As a SharePoint implementator, we know that the client needs to test the provision (your deliverables) of the SharePoint environment, based on exactly what they requested (the scope). However, some may think that simply...