I am looking for a sense of what’s going on with SharePoint today, across geographies, across industries, across SharePoint capability sets.

what do you do with SharePoint sites when their useful life is at an end, however you define that

The User Adoption Strategies report looks at the strategies that organizations are using to encourage adoption of SharePoint, and goes beyond mere “use” and explores the strategies that are “most effective”.

One of the things I rail against in my book SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration, is the belief that governance is just about optimizing technical settings in SharePoint. It’s not! It’s about so much more than that, and while the optimization of technical settings — the number of site collections, database sizes, page load times, and so on — is important within a particular context, successfully leveraging the technology of SharePoint to enhance business operations requires a more expansive view of governance.

As a follow-on from the success of Seamless Teamwork, SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration: Using SharePoint to Enhance Business Collaboration is the indispensable guide for IT and business people wanting to use SharePoint to enhance business collaboration. The roadmap focuses on the business and human side of SharePoint, rather than the technology. There are six focal chapters, covering frameworks for improvement, governance themes, engaging with the business, user adoption strategies, and more.

Michael Sampson (author of Seamless Teamwork) will be running a full-day master class on using SharePoint for Collaboration in Atlanta on March 26. Lee Reed, another author here on EndUserSharePoint.com, is the host for the day

We’ll be looking at Chapter 5 of the book—which transitions us from talking about upfront activities before the project starts and into the discussion of how the team works together through SharePoint on Phase 1 of the project lifecycle model.

The next session of the Online Study Group for Seamless Teamwork will be held next week, with the recording made on Tuesday. We’ll be looking at Chapter 4 of the book, which is about inviting the project team into the new SharePoint team space. In other words, we have the space set up, and now we need to let them know about it, how to find it, and how to know what’s going on inside it.

a series of SharePoint and collaboration master classes

Live, Online Study SharePoint Study Group. We’ll be looking at Chapter 3 of the book, which is about setting up a place in SharePoint for the project team to work