SharePoint - Planning and Governance Session Notes

Thanks to everyone who came to my session at the Christchurch SharePoint User Group and Matt (Btw Matt is doing 1 post a day about SharePoint related development until Xmas!), and Gary for organising the event. This post is aimed at covering off some key points which I  wanted to clarify. I introduced a planning framework and wanted to clarify that I use this depending on various factors and the engagement that I am doing.

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One of the key aspects that I believe that should be taken into consideration no matter how small or large your deployment is that you need to have an established requirements document that outline your business requirements. Then you can map these to your key cycles of your deployment. In one of my previous posts I highlighted some guidelines for Project Managers on how to approach a SharePoint project. I am keen to hear some feedback about this approach and happy to share some real world experiences in using the above framework. If you are interested email me on chandima ‘at’ chandima ’.’ ‘net’ or via the Contact me link at the top.