Architecting SharePoint Solutions to Manage Work and Projects
We find customers more and more familiar with the basics of how to customize SharePoint once it is setup. However we have seen a lack of knowledge and confidence on the topic of how to architect and gradually build SharePoint solutions from a business point of view. This is a critical but not too difficult set of skills to acquire. To assist with the spread of this body of knowledge we have crafted a simple six steps process to help architect SharePoint solutions specifically for work and project management.
SharePoint is capable of handling many different business workloads. A classic example is of course a web site built on SharePoint. While this is a great use of SharePoint, consider that an organization typically only has one web site, albeit with many users. Consider also the business workload of project and program management, where organizations have hundreds, or in some cases thousands of projects, involving both internal and external parties. Consider also that today many of these projects are run on email, Microsoft Excel and shared network drives. Collaborative project and program management is a business workload very suited to SharePoint.
With all of this in mind, we have created a downloadable package designed to support organizations that wish to architect a pmPoint and SharePoint Solution to Manage Work and Projects.
The package includes the following:
- Webcast Recording explaining the architecture proces
- Presentation used in the webcast
- White Paper describing a generic menthod for implementing the process
- Contoso Case Study describing how the process was implemented
- Process Worksheets that can be used to help build your own work and project management architecture
We understand that this process will not work for all SharePoint work-loads, but we hope by sharing this information others will do likewise and we can gradually build up more readily available knowledge in this key area throughout the SharePoint community.
We hope you find this material useful and we look forward to your considered feedback.