Having SharePoint governance is more than just a recommendation. Having governance in place is a necessity. They say that if your production SharePoint install is your only install, you don’t actually have a production environment. You only have a test environment.* The same thing goes for governance. You can’t have a true production environment without a governance plan. If you are an admin for a SharePoint environment without a governance plan, your life becomes incredibly difficult. You have no pull to get anything accomplished.
Whoever did this has guts to spare. That’s what it takes to get complete buy-in at the level you’re going to need. These people didn’t hesitate. They went “all in” on rollout day.
End Users love to see cool stuff. They’ll come to your site just see it work. Take what’s embedded on the page below. Go ahead, play around with it a bit. “Grab” the picture screen and throw it. Click on an image. Scroll back and forth. Pretty cool, right?
There is a theory of web site analytics driven by Avinash Kaushik that I’ve been following for the past few months. His book, Web Analytics: An Hour a Day, is at the the top of my reading stack on the nightstand. It’s a fascinating read. For such a dry subject his style of writing is engaging and thought provoking.
The question of the day comes from Nicole:
I’m the communications lead in the tech department, and, fortunately, I understand the advantages that MOSS 2007 offers over 2003, but am having a hard time distilling that into manageable pieces for folks in other departments (HR, Finance, etc.) to understand. Any ideas, or examples from successful deployments?
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“If you want to bring MOSS to your organization, find a passionate, adaptable person; make learning MOSS their primary function, and challenge them.”
Very interesting post from AutoSponge on how to get End User adoption by creating “experts” and evangelists within the company. Definitely worth the read…
Question of the day from Shawn:
How do you get users to accept/actually use SharePoint? “I’ve been doing X for 10 years, why now do I have to do it through SharePoint?” Part of implementing SharePoint [for] my customer was to prevent users from using a shared folder for all of their documents, thereby enforcing version [...]
