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SharePoint Governance: Best Practices for Managing SharePoint Environments

 
Course: 957     Type: Hands-On Training     Duration: 2 Days

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You Will Learn How To
  • Develop a consistent management approach for your successful SharePoint environment
  • Establish a governance body and plan for your organization
  • Employ a model to determine governance life cycles and management processes
  • Align tasks and procedures with governance policies to maintain continuity
  • Create effective communication and training plans for organization-wide adoption
  • Leverage tools and techniques to implement governance within your organization

Course Benefits
Without proper planning and oversight, deploying SharePoint sites can become difficult to control and manage. 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. The plan is a roadmap for administering, maintaining, and supporting the efficient use of SharePoint technologies. In this course, you develop a governance plan to maximize your organization's return on its SharePoint investment.

Who Should Attend
SharePoint users and site managers, including project managers, business analysts, and those responsible for the implementation of SharePoint technologies.

Hands-On Training
Throughout this course you gain extensive practical experience developing a SharePoint governance roadmap. Practical exercises include:
  • Developing the appropriate governance model
  • 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
  • Aligning your IT and SharePoint support strategies

Course 957 Content
Applying Governance to SharePoint
Defining governance
  • Establishing policies, roles, responsibilities and processes
  • Guiding the application of SharePoint technologies
  • Differentiating corporate, IT and SharePoint models
Designing a SharePoint governance roadmap
  • Identifying the components of a plan
  • Developing the plan in stages
  • Exploring the lifecycle for an effective plan
Establish project goals
  • Defining deliverables
  • Selecting the team
SharePoint fundamentals
  • Reviewing basic SharePoint elements
  • Building sites for SharePoint governance
Examining case studies
  • Correlating corporate size to the appropriate governance plan
  • Analyzing multiple studies to assess potential risk
  • Identifying compliance requirements
Establishing a Governance Hierarchy and 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
Determining Roles and Responsibilities
Establishing 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
Adopting Operations and 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 multitiered support
  • Identifying the need for a multilevel support network
  • Classifying support levels and functions
  • Incorporating SharePoint into your IT support infrastructure
Planning for Communications and 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 organization
  • Identifying different training requirements
  • Selecting from various training methods
  • Developing a comprehensive training plan
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
Tools for Success
  • Applying best practices
  • Ensuring continuity with checklists and templates
  • Discovering key resources to use within your organization
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SharePoint Governance: Best Practices for Managing SharePoint Environments
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SharePoint Governance: Best Practices for Managing SharePoint Environments
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Course Tuition
$ 1,800 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 900 10-Day Pass
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$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 1,620 Alumni Gold Discount
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SharePoint Governance: Best Practices for Managing SharePoint Environments
SharePoint Governance: Best Practices for Managing SharePoint Environments
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