SharePoint Governance Workshop Objectives:
TThroughout this two day workshop you will gain experience developing a SharePoint governance policy that will fit with your organisation. There are lots of practical exercises during this event including:
Developing an appropriate governance plan.
Deploying a SharePoint governance site.
Establishing team roles, responsibilities and tasks.
Determining standard operating procedures.
Creating application usage policies.
Writing a stakeholder communication and training plan.

Overview:
Governance is concerned with the people, processes and policies that guide the growth and use of SharePoint technologies within your company/organisation. This workshop will ensure you maximise return on your investment by controlling the use, management and growth of SharePoint in your organisation, and managing change within your SharePoint environment. It is critical to implement a process that aligns business objectives with site implementation. A governance plan establishes the balance between proper control mechanisms and the innovative use of SharePoint collaboration.

Who should attend:
SharePoint users and site managers, including project managers, business analysts, and those responsible for the implementation of SharePoint technologies.

Module 2 - Designing a SharePoint governance plan
Identifying key areas of a Governance plan
Developing the plan in stages
Exploring the lifecycle for effective plans

Module 3 - Establish project goals
Defining deliverables
Selecting a team

Module 4 - SharePoint fundamentals
Reviewing basic SharePoint elements
Building sites for SharePoint governance

Module 5 - Examining case studies
Correlating corporate size to the appropriate governance plan

Module 6 - Establishing a Governance Hierarchy & Model
Employing SharePoint in the corporate environment
Designing portal and site hierarchy to satisfy business objectives
Structuring a corporate taxonomy
Addressing scalability
Measuring the impact of scalability on your plan
Ensuring your plan complements the corporate footprint

Module 7 – Determining Roles and Responsibilities
Establishing a SharePoint governance body
Defining the types of teams
Developing a team charter
Differentiating strategic vs tactical team objectives
Establishing individual roles
Highlighting IT, SharePoint and business roles
Assigning responsibilities and tasks

Module 8 - Adopting Operations & Application Usage Policies
Reviewing operations
Formulating operational policies
Defining routine tasks
Preparing standard operating procedures documentation
Setting application usage policies
Establishing site provisioning standards
Applying change management to ensure plan continuity
Addressing regional issues
Integrating multi-tiered support
Identifying the need for a multilevel support network
Classifying support levels and functions
Incorporating SharePoint into your IT support infrastructure

Module 9 - Planning for Communications & Training
Communicating for success
Selling the benefits of a governance plan
Building a stakeholder-focused communication plan
Stakeholder communications
Selecting your communication medium
Leveraging SharePoint collaboration tools for message delivery
Training the organisation
Identifying different training requirements
Selecting from various training methods
Developing a comprehensive training plan

Module 10 – Ensuring Governance
Applying a change control mechanism
Employing a change management process
Identifying the need for a change request site
Building the change request site to facilitate the approval process
Scheduling governance reviews
Assigning plan ownership to the governance
Automating governance plan maintenance
Incorporating lessons learned

Module 11 - Tools for Success
Applying best practices
Ensuring continuity with checklists and templates
Discovering key resources to use within your organisation

Questions and answers

Related courses:

SharePoint Designer 2007
SharePoint 2007 Power User

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