SharePoint Governance and Taxonomy Workshop

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Governance and Taxonomy Workshop

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Overview

This two-day workshop is designed to help your management team and SharePoint project team understand your organization’s key business needs, governance strategy, and informational taxonomy plan in simple and easy-to-understand terms. 

After participating in this workshop, your executives and project team members will return with a consistent, practical, and solid understanding of governance and taxonomy concepts, and why these concepts will make or break your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) implementation. The topic covered in this workshop are designed to keep your organization consistent and focused during your SharePoint implementation, while encouraging tactical freedom and innovation. By the end of this workshop, your team will have created a concise, effective Governance and Taxonomy Plan that can be put into action the next day.

Invest two days to get your team organized, on the same page, and moving effectively toward your corporate objectives with MOSS 2007.

Purpose

1.      Get your SharePoint project team on the same page, working toward the same goals, and focused on your key business needs.

2.      Create an ongoing SharePoint plan to avoid the major pitfalls that can defeat the organizational effectiveness of SharePoint in your organization.

3.      Provide a plan for how to make SharePoint an integral part of your organization’s culture and business processes.

4.      Improve effective communication between the project team and the executive stakeholders who are responsible for the business success of MOSS 2007.

Prerequisites

Although not mandatory, it is helpful if those attending the workshop have completed a three-day end user training course or have a general understanding of how to use MOSS 2007.

Audience

Individuals in the job categories listed below will benefit from the knowledge gained in this workshop:

·         Executive business and technology leadership

·         SharePoint project teams

·         Marketing professionals

·         Sales professionals

·         Human resource professionals

·         Business analysts

·         Project managers

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Module 1: Executive Overview of SharePoint

This module explains why MOSS 2007 is important to your organization, how it is changing the IT world, and the potential risks you face during implementation.

Immediate Benefits:

·         You will understand the key concepts that make MOSS 2007 a world-changing technology.

·         You will be able to quickly and effectively explain complex MOSS 2007 concepts to customers, coworkers, and project sponsors.

Module 2: SharePoint Taxonomy Planning Fundamentals

This module provides a clear understanding of the different kinds of taxonomies, and how they interact. You will learn how to recognize a good taxonomy when you see one and how to keep your taxonomy healthy.

Immediate Benefits:

·         You will be able to describe why a thorough and simple taxonomy is vital to the success of your MOSS 2007 project.

·         You will have a solid understanding of different approaches to organizing taxonomies based on real-world examples reviewed during the workshop.

·         You will have the opportunity to write the Taxonomy Plan for your organization and have it reviewed by your peers.

Module 3: Write Your Real-World Governance Plan

This module first explains what governance is, and then covers the following topics that show how to implement a Governance Plan in your organization:

1.      Creating the Governance Alpha Process

2.      Picking the Governance Team

3.      Selling Governance to the Organization

4.      Making the Governance Plan Fit Your Business

Immeadiate Benefits:

·         You will understand and be able to explain the role of business governance in establishing and maintaining a successful MOSS 2007 implementation.

·         You will be able to effectively coordinate the governance activities of the business policy and technology governance teams that are responsible for maintaining the effectiveness of your MOSS 2007 implementation.

·         You will have the opportunity to write a simple, sustainable Governance Plan for your organization and have it reviewed by your peers.

Module 4: Writing the SharePoint Project Charter

This module describes which project management strategies work best for MOSS 2007 implementations, core team composition and management, project duration, and initiation. The discussion includes an overview of the following common project "failure modes" encountered by MOSS 2007 project teams, and what to do about them:

1.      Spinning Your Wheels

2.      Viral Growth

3.      Lockdown

4.      Death by a Thousand Cuts

5.      Everybody Go Long

6.      Tower of Babel

7.      Wild, Wild West

Immediate Benefits:

·         You will understand and be able to explain the use of simplified project management methods in establishing and maintaining a successful MOSS 2007 implementation.

·         You will be able to effectively communicate the goals, schedule, and resource requirements for your successful MOSS 2007 implementation, which will help gain executive support for your project.

·         You will have the opportunity to write your organizations' MOSS 2007 Project Plan and have it reviewed by your peers.

Module 5: Choosing a Successful SharePoint Pilot Project

This module explains how to identify, document, and manage MOSS 2007 requirements so your project team can effectively oversee your project. This module also provides a strategy for guarding against scope creep that works. You will also learn how to identify and document project risks in clear and simple terms.

Immediate Benefits:

·         You will understand and be able to explain how to simplify requirements for managing and maintaining a successful MOSS 2007 implementation.

·         You will be able to effectively gather measurable and simple requirements to guide your project to a successful conclusion.

·         You will have the opportunity to write a document that outlines the high-level requirements for your organization and have it reviewed by your peers.

Module 6: Next Day Action Plan

During this module you will write an Action Plan for how you and your MOSS 2007 project team can “hit the ground running” the very next day. Plans are great, but results are even better. This Action Plan lays out the exact steps your team needs to take to see results immediately.

Immediate Benefit:

·         You will have the opportunity to write an Action Plan that identifies the measurable "next steps" for your organization to take the moment you get back to the office to ensure immediate results and have it reviewed by your peers.

Comments

[Esther]

Your workshop sounds very interesting.

Do companies sign up for you to come to their location or do you deliver the workshop in different cities for attendees from a variety of companies?