SharePoint Governance - Key to a Successful Deployment
More and more businesses are realizing that the key to a successful deployment of a portal, collaboration solution, records repository... you name it. Is a plan. If fail to plan, you plan to fail. Not sure who's quote that is, but it begins to tell this story about not so successful deployments.
To help you succeed we have recently published a specific Governance and Information Architecture page on TechNet to help organize these key materials.
- Information architecture in SharePoint Server 2007 - Scott Case of Interknowlogy, in this case study describes the process by which a fictitious company plans, customizes and deploys an Office SharePoint Server 2007 installation in a large organization.
- SharePoint Products and Technologies customization policy - Sean Livingston, then of MS IT, now the PM for upgrade in WSS for the next version (hint, hint). He explains his thoughts on supportability of customizations in 3 levels of service, a plan that MS IT uses to manage it's hosted offerings of SharePoint internally.
- Sample governance plan - Mark Wagner, MCS lays out an easy to fill out enterprise governance plan, including defining governance roles and responsibilities, operations policies, training, and resources.
- SharePoint Server 2007 governance checklist guide - this handy reference guide takes information from Robert Bogues article as well as information from Joel Oleson's TechEd Governance talk and articles being published on this landing page in the coming weeks. This is exactly the same as the Governance checklist given out at TechEd.
- Logical architecture model: Corporate deployment - Brenda Carter of the Technical Documentation team for TechNet SharePoint IT Pro, lays out an easy to use, fresh take on "logical architectures" which goes into examples of construction of farms, SSPs, Web Applications, and Site Collections.
- Governance Workspace - This codeplex workspace on governance focuses on free tools and information sharing in the community. Two tools, both from MS IT currently are available here. The MS IT Site Delete capture, and the MS IT Site Life cycle management. Both designed to help save the IT Pro time and money.
