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Anith » What is required for a successful SharePoint Rollout? — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:36:42 GMT

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re: What is required for a successful SharePoint Deployment?

Neo — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:19:21 GMT

Great post, I'm somehow agree you, your first quadrants, I would like to say stability, any service has to be stable to be use by users, no matter how strong we are designing and implementing a new service, included SharePoint implementation, just one or two downtime or wrong functionality is enough for users to leave that service, and come back to their traditional service, and I believe that they are right. your new value service need to be stable, and off course infrastructure is very important for stability. I personally prefer to propose clients really simple, but value added and stable services, than a complicated and high level technically solution that might be down sometime, or a little hard for users to use them.

about the governance, off course it's very important, and I'm still waiting to reed your second part ;)

User Adoption, I also experienced lots of failed projects, I think there is a key, users or clients has to need those services we are proposing them, I meant, really requirements, not just as a luxury service, not just because any companies are using SharePoint, so we are going to implement it ! after implementation they are not going to use it really. specially when SharePoint market demands is so high, I personally trying to understand real requirements, real business needs, I will choose them, then it will be a really successful project.

Those peoples sited outside of IT department, I love to work with them, they know the exact requirements and business value. presenting on the value proposition instead of technical details is the key. I don't like to discuss with technical peoples, they always looking for a new, complecated, complex, innovative solutions, witch is not necessarily busiess requirement.

I believe, SharePoint, itself, has value for the business, so just an stable implementation, and governance planning, and demonstrating value added services in comparison of old service, and as you said, getting senior manager's satisfactions and their support will guaranty your success, and I'm suggesting couple of shots tequila for that day ;)

UC&C Conference, SharePoint – the Implementation Journey, Links and Resources

David Szabo's [MSFT] blog — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 13:23:04 GMT

Thank you very much for those who came to see our session on the UC&C conference. These are the resources