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Index
Microsoft SharePoint 2013: Planning for Adoption and Governance
Introduction
Service delivery encompasses User Adoption and Governance
Governance provides business ownership
Who this book is for
What this book is not for
Assumptions about you
Organization of this book
Chapter 1: Aligning organizational goals and requirements
Chapter 2: Defining the SharePoint solution scope
Chapter 3: Planning SharePoint solution delivery
Chapter 4: Preparing SharePoint solution User Adoption
Chapter 5: Planning SharePoint Governance
Chapter 6: SharePoint delivery program considerations
Chapter 7: Organizing SharePoint delivery resources
Chapter 8: Building a SharePoint service delivery model
Chapter 9: Controlling the delivery program
Chapter 10: SharePoint customization impacting User Adoption
Chapter 11: Managing workshops and closing the delivery program
Chapter 12: Maintaining the solution
Acknowledgments
Support and feedback
Errata
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1. Aligning organizational goals and requirements
Understanding SharePoint goals and requirements
Using Goal Alignment methods
Creating measurable benefits
Ensuring that a SharePoint delivery program is legitimate
Understanding tangible and intangible benefits
Measuring SharePoint benefits
Surrogate measurement
Higher-level measurement
Setting conditions for SharePoint delivery program satisfaction
Forecasting User Adoption benefits
Estimating demand for your SharePoint solution
Pricing
Estimating costs
Creating SharePoint S.M.A.R.T. goals
Understanding Goal Alignment and the importance of User Adoption
Understanding the importance of a performance review site
Summary
2. Defining the SharePoint solution scope
Creating a learning and knowledge experience
Knowing your SharePoint features
Engaging the right people
Tying analysis to SharePoint features
Building the user requirements document
Section 1—User Objectives
Section 2—Structure and Taxonomy
Section 3—Content and Metadata
Section 4—Search and Audience
Section 5—Features
Differences in planning On-Premise versus SharePoint Online solutions
What makes a SharePoint delivery program successful?
Creating a SharePoint solution delivery plan
Adding quality to your delivered SharePoint solution
Governance
Adoption
Value
Vision
ROI
Summary
3. Planning SharePoint solution delivery
Setting up a SharePoint delivery team
Preparing a SharePoint delivery program
Building the SharePoint delivery plan
Defining controls to manage SharePoint solution delivery
Ascertaining progress reporting needs
Identifying who can authorize changes
Keeping the stakeholders informed
Documenting your SharePoint implementation
Establishing controls for SharePoint solution delivery
Engaging your sponsor and stakeholders
Summary
4. Preparing SharePoint solution User Adoption
Building SharePoint User Adoption strategies
Getting support from your SharePoint sponsor
Sparking excitement in your potential users
Developing Communication Plans
Creating SharePoint champions
Standardizing business needs
Building collaborative ownership
Understanding the importance of training
Social networking in SharePoint 2013
Value Management and Value Engineering
Objectives of Value Management
Step 1: Structure the objectives
Step 2: Assign importance weightings
Step 3: Evaluate each option
Step 4: Assess value
Step 5: Check sensitivity
Critical success factors
Applying Value Engineering to SharePoint solutions
Critical success factors
The importance of Value Management and Value Engineering in SharePoint solution design
Planning for BYOD
Summary
5. Planning SharePoint Governance
Creating a Governance committee
The model
Building a SharePoint Governance committee
Strategy team
Tactical team
Creating a SharePoint service model
Creating platform Governance
Creating business rules
Creating a SharePoint training program
Training resource requirements
Training plan scheduling
Communication and support
Technical training
Using web analytics and auditing to provide substance to Governance
Understanding IT consumerization Governance
Lost devices
Lost IP
Security breaches
Information leaks
Patching of mobile devices
Creating policies for mobile device use
Getting the users involved
Building the Statement of Operations
Summary
6. SharePoint delivery program considerations
Managing change in the SharePoint delivery program
Understanding the importance of information architecture
Building your search strategy
Understanding geographical boundary implications
Understanding why you need platform deployment documentation
Understanding the key SharePoint 2013 concepts
Topology
Considering SharePoint 2010 migration
Building the platform deployment document
Platform Overview
Functional Requirements
Performance Requirements
Human Requirements
System Management Requirements
Availability, Reliability, and Maintenance
Interface Requirements
Test Requirements
Design Constraints
Documentation, installation, and integration testing
Integration and hardware testing
Summary
7. Organizing SharePoint delivery resources
Organizing the delivery team
Creating the terms of reference
Building the delivery team
Strategy Brief
ADS
Engagement Summary
Presentations and demo sites
Understanding the delivery team roles
Business analysts
Content strategist
Web graphic designer
Information architect
Infrastructure specialist
SharePoint administrator
SharePoint delivery manager
Solutions architect
SharePoint and web developer
The SharePoint 2013 One-Stop Shop
Interfaces: Teams in the organization
Interfaces: Consultants from outside the organization
Communications
Quality Assurance
SharePoint trainers
User interface designer
Summary
8. Building a SharePoint service delivery model
Understanding SharePoint service delivery
Creating a SharePoint support service
Task 1: Examine your resources
Task 2: Identify your customers
Task 3: Launch your services
Task 4: Manage the flow
Task 5: Establish query closure methods
Task 6: Establish reporting
Task 7: Control your work
Task 8: Communicate with your customers
Task 9: Survey your customers
Task 10: Review and improve
Understanding compliance, legal, availability, and resiliency implications
Cloud versus on-premise
Summary
9. Controlling the delivery program
Creating a delivery schedule
Tracking and communicating progress
Understanding the content of delivery program reports
Team member reports
Delivery manager reports
SharePoint sponsor reports
Subcontractor reports
Understanding the bar chart
Creating management summaries
Creating the deliverables log
Creating a late activities report
Creating a network diagram
Creating a milestone report
Understanding project interdependencies
Managing the finances
Applying financial management to SharePoint delivery programs
Recording actual costs and committed costs
Managing risks and issues
Managing risk
Managing issues
Summary
10. SharePoint customization impacting User Adoption
Deciding when you should and should not customize SharePoint
Using practical techniques to make decisions
Creating customization policies to protect the SharePoint platform
Choosing the correct resources
SharePoint 2013 development environment options
Understanding the User Adoption impact
Understanding the Governance impact
Ensuring developer environment separation and ownership
Provisioning SharePoint 2013 Designer to developers
Ensuring that a system development life cycle is followed
Creating documentation for customized SharePoint solutions
Creating the User Solution Specification document
Creating the User Manual
Creating the Operations Manual
Summary
11. Managing workshops and closing the delivery program
Managing workshops
Conducting the workshops
Before the workshop
At the workshop
After the workshop
The importance of listening to and knowing your audience in SharePoint workshops
Brainstorming
Carrying out a quality review
Signing off on SharePoint solution delivery
Confirming that training has been completed
Creating a closure checklist
Creating the closure report
Formal closure of SharePoint delivery programs
Closure actions and communication
Summary
12. Maintaining the solution
Sustaining SharePoint support
Sustaining Governance
Sustaining User Adoption
Summary
A. About the author
Index
About the Author
Copyright
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