We all know that SharePoint governance by definition is a set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes to guide, direct, and control how SharePoint is used to accomplish business goals.

I just received a note from Paul Culmsee about a workshop he is delivering with Andrew Woodward from 21Apps. The subject: SharePoint Governance and Information Architecture Master Class.

I was expecting to have to justify SharePoint’s use and cost so I pulled up executive summary of the governance plan, site usage numbers, training plans, the internal Power User program and all those “Good Stuff emails”.

“Essential SharePoint 2010: Overview, Governance and Planning” is a much needed conversation from the business perspective of how talk about governance and planning when speaking about SharePoint in your company.

Following on the theme of common sense, I’d like to provide some additional guidance and best practices around jumpstarting your SharePoint governance.

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”.

SharePoint is often “unleashed” without proper planning or governance structures, and most administrators find themselves needing to retroactively apply standards across their environment.

A SharePoint Governance model has the following components put in place to guide the development and use of a solution based on SharePoint

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.