Monthly Archives: February 2012
Proper Consideration for User Training
Years ago I worked on a SharePoint deployment project where the main project manager’s attitude about end-user training was that if they needed to be trained how to use SharePoint, they probably shouldn’t be working there. He thought was that … Continue reading
Posted in Governance, SharePoint 2010
Tagged Governance, Governance Planning, Readiness, Release Plan, SharePoint Governance, Training
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The Power of Strong Executive Sponsorship
A few years ago I was engaged with a telephone company to help deploy blogging capabilities to their president in order to increase communication within the organization. He wanted to use it as a tool to push out information using … Continue reading
Posted in Governance, SharePoint 2010, Social
Tagged Blogs, Governance, Governance Planning, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Governance, Social, Sponsorship
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Knowing [the Content] is Half the Battle
When you know what the content is, or how sensitive it is, this can make all the difference in keeping it secure. When you then help users identify its sensitivity easily when they interact with it, they are more aware … Continue reading
Myths of the Governance Plan
Five or six years ago I was consulting with a government customer – a modest sized government with about 40k users or so. My engagement there was to help them establish a governance model and to document a governance plan; … Continue reading
Posted in Consulting, Governance, SharePoint 2010
Tagged Governance, Governance Plan, Planning, SharePoint Governance
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SharePoint Governance Goes Beyond a Document
This probably gets to the core of why I want to share some ideas here: downloading a template from Technet and filling in a few blanks will not solve your governance problems. Why is this so common, and borderline trendy? … Continue reading
On Excellence
Finding excellence, where the highest bar is set and reached, where quality rules rather than quantity, where every little detail matters; you just know when you find it. It’s not easily replicated: most people will compromise or take shortcuts when … Continue reading
Posted in Consulting
Tagged Consulting, Delivery Excellence, Excellence, Process, Solution Delivery, Value Chain
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