SharePoint Governance, Planning and Adoption

This three-day SharePoint course is a comprehensive and detailed discussion about the proper techniques for deploying SharePoint by focusing on how to build and maintain proper Governance. This class begins by ensuring that each student understands what SharePoint is and the business proposition for the enterprise collaboration platform. This course is an in-depth discussion into the business case and ROI of SharePoint and how to tie SharePoint to your company vision. Class dives into Governance by teaching students the value of proper Governance planning, deployment and ongoing support. Students will define a vision for SharePoint and will work together on exercises designed to give a real-world understanding of the steps required when building the team as well as answering the critical questions.

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About this Course

This three-day SharePoint course is a comprehensive and detailed discussion about the proper techniques for deploying SharePoint by focusing on how to build and maintain proper Governance. This class begins by ensuring that each student understands what SharePoint is and the business proposition for the enterprise collaboration platform. This course is an in-depth discussion into the business case and ROI of SharePoint and how to tie SharePoint to your company vision. Class dives into Governance by teaching students the value of proper Governance planning, deployment and ongoing support. Students will define a vision for SharePoint and will work together on exercises designed to give a real-world understanding of the steps required when building the team as well as answering the critical questions.

Audience Profile

Any individual participating in the planning, deployment, and adoption phases of SharePoint would benefit from this class. Preferably students will have at least basic SharePoint knowledge or experience.

Specific Titles of Potential Attendees:

  • SharePoint Governance Lead
  • IT business analysts
  • Key SharePoint stakeholders
  • SharePoint Deployment
  • Project Managers
  • Site Owners

At Course Completion

Upon course completion, students will be able to:

  • Key components of SharePoint: Lists, Libraries, permissions
  • In-depth understanding of the Social features and their value
  • The importance of Governance
  • How to form a Governance team and manage its success
  • How to ask the right questions of the key players
  • How to complete a Governance checklist
  • Steps to engaging users with a SharePoint User Group Community
  • Getting teams onboard with SharePoint – Showing value to drive engagement
  • How to guarantee SharePoint is secure
  • How to show the value of the Enterprise Collaboration features

Prequisites

Students would benefit most from this class if they first attend the SharePoint Site Owner and Power User Boot Camp.

*Delivered by ASPE, ICAgile Member Organization


Course Outline

1. Introduction to the class

  • Audience
  • Objectives

2. Overview of SharePoint

  • What is SharePoint?
  • Business objectives
  • Tying to the corporate vision
  • Editions
  • Hosting
  • Edition comparison

Lab 1: Defining the Vision/Mission of SharePoint

3. Introduction to SharePoint features (the importance of each)

  • Architecture fundamentals
  • Lists
  • Libraries
  • Permissions Overview
  • Collaboration features

Lab 2: Creating a basic SharePoint site

4. Understanding SharePoint Governance?

  • What exactly is Governance?
  • When should Governance start?
  • Creating the plan
  • Defining guiding principles
  • Discuss Social
  • Defining Roles and Responsibilities
  • Defining Policies and Guidelines

Lab 3: Principle development and Social planning

5. Planning for Governance

  • Business considerations
  • Technical considerations
  • Information Architecture considerations

Lab 4: Planning Checklist

6. Planning your Adoption Strategy

  • Engaging teams
  • Sites that drive usage
  • Including everyone in the process
  • SharePoint Users Community
  • Training and Support

Lab 5: Creating a SPUG Community

7. Security Planning

  • Authentication mechanisms
  • Sharing information internally and externally
  • Roles-based management
  • Permission Levels
  • Tightening security in Central Admin and Site Collections
  • Building and communicating your security plan

8. Enterprise Content Management

  • What is ECM?
  • What are the components?
  • Managing site lifecycle
  • Advanced tools (Content Organizer, Information Management Policies)
  • Records management

Lab 6: Managing site permissions, defining and using content

9. Social Planning

  • Understanding the business need and value proposition
  • Social features (Newsfeed, Ratings, Folksonomy:Social Tagging, E2.0 tools)
  • Going beyond the "Comfort Zone" to make teams more productive

Lab 7: Using the social tools to engage teams

10. Search Planning

  • Planning is critical from the beginning
  • Understanding how search works in SharePoint

11. BI Planning

  • BI Tools (Excel Services, Visio Services, PerformancePoint Services, Access Services, Power View, PowerPivot for SharePoint and SQL)
  • Which tools should you use?

12. Office Integration

  • Exporting to Excel
  • OneDrive Pro
  • Outlook connections
  • Site Mailboxes
  • Office Web Apps

Lab 8: Working with Office Integration

13. Review and Assessment



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