SharePoint Governance: 3 Things Every Organization Needs to Know Marie-Michelle Strah, PhD SharePoint Solutions Architect
Nov 01, 2014
SharePoint Governance: 3 Things Every Organization Needs to Know
Marie-Michelle Strah, PhD
SharePoint Solutions Architect
Objectives
• Why SharePoint governance?
• What does SharePoint governance mean to you?
• How do you implement a SharePoint governance plan?
Case studies and resources
Why SharePoint Governance?
• Definition
• Microsoft Guidance
• Changes for SharePoint Server 2010
What Governance is NOT…
• A waste of time
• A big fancy binder that sits on a shelf and no one reads
• Documentation for documentation’s sake
• A rule book
• Abstract
SharePoint Proverbs…
MOSS2007 and Earlier
“Governance is the set of policies, roles,
responsibilities, and processes that you
establish in an enterprise to guide, direct,
and control how the organization uses
technologies to accomplish business
goals.” Source: Microsoft TechNet 2009
SharePoint Server 2010
“Governance is the set of policies, roles,
responsibilities, and processes that guide,
direct, and control how an organization's
business divisions and IT teams cooperate
to achieve business goals.”
Source: Microsoft TechNet 2011
Significant Shift in Framing
• IT Driven
• System Design Documentation
• Dry, Unidirectional, Afterthought
“Thou Shalt Not”
• Business First
• IT Second
• Collaborative Effort Cooperate
SharePoint-as-a-Platform Enterprise Solution
Information Management
Application Management
IT Services
What does SharePoint Governance mean to you?
• Enterprise architecture planning
• Maximize return on investment in SharePoint platform
• Fully leverage and optimize all features of SharePoint
Avoid SharePoint “Failure Modes”
EXAMPLE
How do you implement a SharePoint Governance Plan?
• As Is Architecture • To Be Architecture • Master Data Management Plan • Information Architecture • System Health Check and Migration Plan • Application LifeCycle Management Plan
Last but not least: IT Services and System
Design
Necessary Elements
Governance: Design
Primacy of Information Architecture
• New installation
• Upgrade and migration
• Going above and beyond minimum requirements
SPS2010: IA Minimum Considerations
SPS2010: User Interface/User Experience
508 Compliance Web Content Management Web Design/Graphic Design
Human-Computer Interaction SDK
Master Pages/CSS
SPS2010: Data Architecture
Phases of Governance
• Design
• Deployment
• Implementation
– Change Management
– Application Lifecycle Management
• Governance
– Quarterly Review
– SharePoint Maturity Model
EXAMPLE
Resources • Governance in SharePoint Server 2010:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/sharepoint/ff800826#Model
• Governance Model for SharePoint Server 2010 (ZoomIt):
http://zoom.it/Zb4B#full
• What is Governance (MOSS2007):
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/cc263356%28office.12%29.aspx
• Governance overview (SharePoint Server 2010):
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263356.aspx
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