SPTechCon - Practical Tools and Techniques for the SharePoint Information Architect
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The document discusses a presentation on practical tools and techniques for SharePoint information architects. It introduces the presenters, Ruven Gotz and Richard Harbridge, and sets the goal of sharing ideas and tools to help define problems and build successful SharePoint solutions, while acknowledging the challenges. The presentation aims to provide information on governance, requirements definition, visualizing concepts, making architecture decisions, and tips. It outlines topics that will and won't be covered in depth.
SPTechCon - Practical Tools and Techniques for the SharePoint Information Architect
- 1. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Practical Tools and Techniques for the SharePoint Information Architect #SPTechCon @rharbridge @ruveng Facilitated By: Richard Harbridge and Ruven Gotz
- 2. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Who am I?
- 3. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Ruven Gotz Toronto @ruveng spinsiders.com/ruveng ruveng@navantis.com
- 4. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference The Goal is Success
- 5. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SharePoint is huge
- 6. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference With many Moving parts
- 7. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference The people stuff is complex
- 8. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference How do we build the best solution?
- 9. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference How do we define the problem?
- 10. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference We are here to share some ideas
- 11. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference … and give you some tools
- 12. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Still not easy
- 13. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Proven success
- 14. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Take Away: Confidence
- 15. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Take Away: Improved Communication 17
- 16. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Take Away: Knowledge You Can Use 18
- 17. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Our Goal Today… From Here To Here
- 18. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What We Will Cover Today: 1. What Is SharePoint? 2. Understanding SharePoint Governance 3. Requirements Definition and Mapping 4. Visualizing and Communicating SharePoint Concepts 5. Making Information Architecture Decisions 6. Case Study Approach (Implementing SharePoint IA) 7. Information Architecture Tips and Tricks
- 19. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What We Won’t Cover (In Depth) Today: 1. Records Management (and Information Policies) 2. Search Architecture and Considerations 3. Planning For Multiple Languages 4. Column Decisions (Choice Column vs Managed Metadata Column vs Lookup Column etc…) 5. Audience Targeting
- 20. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What We Will Cover Today: 1.What Is SharePoint? 2. Understanding SharePoint Governance 3. Requirements Definition and Mapping 4. Visualizing and Communicating SharePoint Concepts 5. Making Information Architecture Decisions 6. Case Study Approach (Implementing SharePoint IA) 7. Information Architecture Tips and Tricks
- 21. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What is SharePoint?
- 22. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What is SharePoint? Why does your organization use SharePoint? Step 1: Please Fill Out The Fields… Step 2: Give This Sheet To Someone Close By Step 3: We Will Collect Your Responses
- 23. Meet Joe Hi!
- 25. Decision Makers don’t have Enough Information
- 26. The CFO needs to Reduce Costs
- 27. IT Services Struggles to Keep Up
- 28. People Are Having Trouble Finding What They Need And
- 29. So Joe has an Idea!
- 30. Since… Awesome! Not as awesome.
- 31. And Everyone in Joe’s Company uses Microsoft Office…
- 32. SharePoint is the Perfect Fit!
- 35. to IT Services? What is SharePoint
- 36. #SPSMI @RHarbridge The Main Point of Implementing SharePoint: SharePoint eventually allows Business Users to develop and implement business solutions that use technology without IT’s direct involvement. SharePoint and IT
- 37. #SPSMI @RHarbridge When I Say “SharePoint Integration” You Probably Think Of This... Secondary (But Important) Points: SharePoint’s integration with technologies you already use and it’s extendibility are invaluable. SharePoint and IT
- 38. #SPSMI @RHarbridge The Reality: IT struggles with supporting another technology. SharePoint and IT
- 41. to the Business? What is SharePoint
- 43. SharePoint f-Laws f-Law 1: The more comprehensive the definition of governance is, the less it will be understood by all f-Law 2: There is no point in asking users who don’t know what they want, to say what they want f-Law 3: The probability of project success is inversely proportional to the time taken to come up with a measurable KPI f-Law 4: Most stated governance objectives are platitudes – they say nothing but hide behind words f-Law 5: Confidence is the feeling that you have until you understand the problem http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/vid/Paul%20keynote/Player.html (1 hour talk)
- 44. f-Law 4: Most stated governance objectives are platitudes – they say nothing but hide behind words - If you cannot reasonably disagree with an objective, or measure it, then it is a platitude Platitudes: • “Collaboration will be encouraged” • “A best-practice collaboration platform” • “To provide the best collaborative experience for our users” Non-platitudes: • “We are proving that we can grow the organisation while reducing email volumes and centralising document storage” • “By building communities of practice, we prove that we can reduce information overload and allow our users to find the right expertise”
- 45. Back On Track
- 46. to the Business? What is SharePoint
- 48. Centralize Knowledge and Resources Enhance Collaboration Automate and Improve Business Processes Enhance Governance Model Reduce Redundancy and Improve Efficiency Centralize Knowledge and Resources Centralize - 2 Centralize – 1 Centralize – 2 Centralize – 0 Enhance Collaboration Improve BP - 2 Governance – 2 Redundancy – 2 Automate and Improve Business Processes Governance – 1 Redundancy – 1 Enhance Governance Model Redundancy – 1 Reduce Redundancy and Improve Efficiency Ensure Clear Priorities Objective Weight Importance Centralize 5 35.71% Collaboration 0 0% Improve BP 2 14.29% Governance 3 21.43% Redundancy 4 28.57%
- 49. Map Solutions to Objectives Centralize Knowledge and Resources Enhance Collaboration Automate and Improve Business Processes Enhance Governance Model Reduce Redundancy and Improve Efficiency Adjust Site Structure and Taxonomy Migrate File Shares Create Dashboards Implement Workflow Solutions Configure Search Services Branding Direct Relationship Indirect Relationship * Objectives/solutions should be more specific – Example purposes only.
- 50. SharePoint Solutions (Evolution) *Super Simplified Business Intelligence Driven Business Process Driven Collaboration Driven Information Driven Communication Collaboration Workflow/ Auditing Reporting Dashboards
- 51. Map the needs of the organization to the right technology…
- 52. Perform in depth product comparisons and evaluations
- 53. Like this one… Excerpt of Product Comparison written by Richard Harbridge courtesy of Concept Interactive
- 54. SharePoint is not a Silver Bullet… SharePoint is not a Silver Bullet at NothingButSharePoint.com
- 55. Utilized by Business Users to develop and implement business solutions that use technology without IT’s direct involvement. Our primary unified application delivery platform. Our primary workflow/business process automation platform. Our intranet and communication center for internal corporate communications. … SharePoint will be… Our (external) web content management platform. Our primary document management platform. Our contact management platform. … SharePoint will not be…
- 56. Foundation Standard Enterprise SharePoint has Multiple Options 2007 2010 Online On Site
- 58. It’s not just a feature to feature comparison People Process Technology
- 59. So Joe does all that good research and…
- 60. SharePoint is a part of his overall Enterprise Technology Plan
- 61. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference The Outcome Within an overall enterprise technology plan SharePoint and it’s solutions meet specific business needs.
- 62. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What to watch out for… “Technology provides no benefits of its own; it is the application of technology to business opportunities that produces ROI.” – Robert McDowell
- 63. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What We Will Cover Today: 1. What Is SharePoint? 2.Understanding SharePoint Governance 3. Requirements Definition and Mapping 4. Visualizing and Communicating SharePoint Concepts 5. Making Information Architecture Decisions 6. Case Study Approach (Implementing SharePoint IA) 7. Information Architecture Tips and Tricks
- 64. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Why Do I Need Effective Governance?
- 65. There are big risks that are almost always realized when you don’t have it!
- 66. SharePoint Sprawl “First I added three floors but then the house looked ungainly, like a mushroom," he said. "So I added another and it still didn't look right so I kept going…” He was only intending to build a two-story house - larger than those of his neighbors to reflect his position as the city's richest man. Risk: Un-Managed Sites and Content were not periodically reviewed for accuracy and relevance.
- 67. Quality Deterioration Risk: Did not ensure that content quality is maintained for the life of the portal.
- 68. Risk: Did not consistently provide a high quality user experience. Frustration Failure
- 69. Priority Paralysis Project Priority Fileshare Migration 1 Partner Extranet 1 Executives Kitten Picture Rotator 1 Legacy Application Integration 1 Governance Planning 1 Put Out Server Room Fires 1 Risk: Did not establish clear decision making authority/ownership and escalation procedures so that conflicts and/or policy violations are resolved in a timely manner.
- 70. Ineffective Use of Time/Resources Risk: Did not ensure that the portal strategy is aligned with business objectives so that it continuously delivers business value.
- 71. It’s not just about insuring against or mitigating those risks!
- 72. Without effective governance organization, performance, and capability are significantly reduced. What does that mean?
- 75. With Governance
- 76. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference The Outcome You can now communicate why Governance is important/required.
- 77. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What to watch out for… It’s not insurance. It makes your SharePoint investments more successful.
- 78. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Building The Governance Teams
- 79. How do we start?
- 80. Recommended Governance Teams There are typically 5 teams for SharePoint Governance: Business Strategy Team Solutions/Technical Strategy Team Tactical Teams: Tactical Operations Team Tactical Development Team Tactical Support Team
- 82. Governance Teams Business Strategy Team Solutions/Technical Strategy Team Tactical Teams: Tactical Operations Team Tactical Development Team Tactical Support Team
- 83. Business IT Decentralized Centralized Business Strategy Team Sample Representative Interests Executive Sponsor Knowledge Management Information/Technology Services Finance Sales and Marketing Human Resources Legal and Compliance Operations People Development and Training Administration Role: Provide strategic insight, direction and prioritization for the portal.
- 84. Define, Prioritize and Plan
- 85. Governance Teams Business Strategy Team Solutions/Technical Strategy Team Tactical Teams: Tactical Operations Team Tactical Development Team Tactical Support Team
- 86. Solution (Technical) Strategy Team Role: Provide technical insight, direction and prioritization for the portal. Sample Representative Interests Application Development Infrastructure Enterprise Architecture Security People Development and Training CommunicationsTip: If a business direction requires new integration or effort with other technologies then a technical representative for that technology will be necessary.
- 87. Map Solutions to Objectives Centralize Knowledge and Resources Enhance Collaboration Automate and Improve Business Processes Enhance Governance Model Reduce Redundancy and Improve Efficiency Adjust Site Structure and Taxonomy Migrate File Shares Create Dashboards Implement Workflow Solutions Configure Search Services Branding Direct Relationship Indirect Relationship * Objectives should be more specific – Example purposes only.
- 88. Utilized by Business Users to develop and implement business solutions that use technology without IT’s direct involvement. Our primary unified application delivery platform. Our primary workflow/business process automation platform. Our intranet and communication center for internal corporate communications. … SharePoint will be… Our (external) web content management platform. Our primary document management platform. Our contact management platform. SharePoint will not be…
- 89. Defining Clear Objectives and Priorities High Level Solutions Definition and Ownership High Level Platform Classification Communication Planning and Management Resource/Capability Management Expectation Management Strategic Responsibilities
- 90. Information Architecture and Governance Areas Above The Line versus Below The Line Permanent central portal - Few authors/Many readers Departmental Portlets Projects & Workspaces My Sites Communication Portal • Central navigation • Central taxonomy • Divisional stakeholders • Enterprise search Personal Collaboration •Local taxonomies •Local search Departmental portlets • Departments • Resources • Business Processes - Few authors/Many readers Semi Structured Team sites - Multiple authors Blogs, bios, Social Central Portal IncreasingStrictnessofGovernance
- 92. Governance Teams Business Strategy Team Solutions/Technical Strategy Team Tactical Teams: Tactical Operations Team Tactical Development Team Tactical Support Team
- 93. The Tactical Operations Team Role: Provide operational (IT- related) support and maintenance for the system infrastructure Sample Representative Interests Infrastructure Active Directors Networking Servers and Environments Quality Assurance Security Databases They manage the more routine maintenance of the system by performing nightly backups, performance monitoring and analysis, and keeping the environment current with security releases and upgrades.
- 94. Objectives/Priorities Disaster Recovery Plan Storage and Quota Policies Monitoring Plans Maintenance Plans Service Level Agreements Security Policies Deployment Process, Policies, and Schedule Operations Responsibilities
- 95. Governance Teams Business Strategy Team Solutions/Technical Strategy Team Tactical Teams: Tactical Operations Team Tactical Development Team Tactical Support Team
- 96. The Tactical Development Team Role: Customize/configure, personalize, and leverage SharePoint to achieve business objectives. Sample Representative Interests SharePoint Designer Visual Studio Source Control Quality Assurance Webparts TemplatesThis team is a loosely-knit community who's membership ranges from highly skilled programmers to technically savvy end users in charge of personalizing departmental team sites.
- 97. Objectives/Priorities Branding Guide SharePoint Designer Policy Workflow Policy Development Standards (Including OOTB vs Custom) Development Environment Policy Testing Requirements Deployment Process, Policies, and Schedule Development Responsibilities SharePoint Standards Online
- 98. Deployment Process/Policies Extremely Important! Ensure you have clear schedules and ownership.
- 99. Governance Teams Business Strategy Team Solutions/Technical Strategy Team Tactical Teams: Tactical Operations Team Tactical Development Team Tactical Support Team
- 100. The Tactical Support Team Role: Provide support of the SharePoint applications and platform. Sample Representative Interests Support and HelpDesk People Development and Training Knowledge Management Taxonomy and Ontology Navigation and Organization CoachingCreates and manages a support system with effective training and proper channels of question or issue escalation and resolution. This team should also include influential users and leaders.
- 101. Objectives/Priorities Site Classification and Platform Classification Site Provisioning Process/Questionnaire User Expectations Agreement Roles and Responsibilities Support Agreement(s) Training and Communication Plans MySite Policies (Pictures)… Support Responsibilities
- 102. User Lifecycle Policy Taxonomy Management Social Policies Content Standards Legal and Compliance Policy Search Management Support Responsibilities SharePoint Standards Online
- 103. Multiple Tiers for Escalation Tactical Support Team Help Desk Site Administrators End Users Learning Libraries/Online/Help (You can’t know everything)
- 104. Measure Support Learn and use data to be proactive.
- 105. Sample Support Flow Consultants, MS and Vendors Tier 5 Tier 4 Tier 3 Tier 2 Tier 1 End Users Site Owner Site Collection Administrator Help Desk Security Environment Third Party Support SharePoint Administrator SharePoint Developer SharePoint Architect Consultative Support
- 106. Governance Tip If possible have one member in all of the Governance teams or some members across multiple teams!
- 107. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference The Outcome Everyone Achieves a Shared Understanding of SharePoint Related Processes.
- 108. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What to watch out for… Not just documents, policies, and procedures. It is an active and ongoing process.
- 109. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Governance Resources
- 110. IS Use them.
- 111. Governance Checklist
- 112. TechNet, Community and More..
- 113. are Use them.
- 115. ITIL Framework
- 116. COBIT Framework
- 117. SharePoint Deployment and Governance using COBIT 4.1 Chennault & Strain http://www.amazon.com/SharePoint-Deployment-Governance-Using-COBIT/dp/1604201177
- 118. Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF)
- 119. SharePoint Maturity Model Sadalit van Buren http://sharepointmaturity.com
- 120. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference The Outcome There is a ton of material out there to support you.
- 121. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What to watch out for… External best practices, policies, standards, and ideas may or may not be the right fit.
- 122. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference 1. Understand The Need For Governance 2. Build Your Governance Teams 3. Understand How SharePoint Is/Should Be Used 4. Develop/Practice Guidance and Policies 5. Return to Step 2 and Repeat Steps 2 through 4 6. You Have Perfect Governance Steps to Effective Governance… You Can Never Truly Achieve Perfect Governance. So long as you are performing the steps you are achieving Effective Governance.
- 123. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What We Will Cover Today: 1. What Is SharePoint? 2. Understanding SharePoint Governance 3.Requirements Definition and Mapping 4. Visualizing and Communicating SharePoint Concepts 5. Making Information Architecture Decisions 6. Case Study Approach (Implementing SharePoint IA) 7. Information Architecture Tips and Tricks
- 124. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Requirements Definition and Mapping
- 125. What makes something a requirement?
- 126. We can do that for $10
- 127. We can do that for $1 Million
- 128. We require a jumbo solution to get to our destination
- 130. We require a jumbo solution to get to our destination
- 136. Sometimes, you do need this
- 137. It’s the destination that matters: The outcome
- 139. Your project will change over time
- 141. More than half of “required” features never get used
- 142. Result of a kitchen sink project
- 143. Shift gears
- 144. SharePoint chicken & egg problem
- 148. SharePoint Workshop
- 149. Agenda • About the Project , Our Team & Goals • SharePoint Overview • Department and Role • Document Collaboration • Document Storage and Search • Compliance, Records Management & Off-line • Questions
- 150. About the Project, Our Team & Goals About this Project – Determine the requirements and scope for a SharePoint implementation at ABC Corp. Our Team – Alison Andrews – Project Manager – Bob Baker – Technical Architect – Carol Conrad – SharePoint Analyst – Don Drummond – Infrastructure Analyst Workshop Goals – Set expectations – Gather your input – Keep it to an hour (+ optional half-hour for further questions)
- 151. SharePoint 2007 Overview Collaboration Portal Search Enterprise Content Management Business Process and Forms Business Intelligence Documents/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e-mail integration, project management “lite,” Outlook integration, offline documents/lists Virtual Teams/Global Teams Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking, privacy control Enterprise scalability, contextual relevance, rich search for people and business data Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow OOB workflows, WF integration, rich and Web forms– based front-ends, LOB actions, pluggable SSO Server-based Microsoft Office Excel® spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, business intelligence Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards Platform Services Workspaces, Mgmt, Security, Storage, Topology, Site Model
- 152. SharePoint 2010 Overview Ribbon UI SharePoint Workspace SharePoint Mobile Office Client and Office Web App Integration Standards Support Intranet, Extranet, Team Collaboration Tagging, Tag Cloud, Ratings Social Bookmarking Blogs and Wikis My Sites Activity Feeds Profiles and Expertise Org Browser Enterprise Content Types Metadata and Navigation Document Sets Multi-stage Disposition Audio and Video Content Types Remote Blob Storage List Enhancements Organizing Information Social Relevance Phonetic Search Navigation FAST Integration Enhanced Pipeline Search PerformancePoint Services Excel Services Chart Web Part Visio Services Web Analytics SQL Server Integration PowerPivot Business Intelligence Business Connectivity Services InfoPath Form Services External Lists Workflow SharePoint Designer Visual Studio API Enhancements REST/ATOM/RSS Building complex solutions on top of SharePoint
- 153. Department and Role Please introduce yourself: • Name • Department • What is your role within your department? • How do you interact with technology to do your job? • How does the current technology help you (or hinder you) from doing your job?
- 154. Document Collaboration • Do you work on documents with others? – How do you collaborate (e-mail, shared drive) ? • What document types do you create? – Which programs do you use? • Do your documents require multiple reviews and edits? Is approval required? – How do you implement the required workflow? • How do you get the final information out to the audience that needs it? – Do you publish PDF’s? – How are they distributed/posted?
- 155. Document Storage and Search • Can you find the documents that you need, when you need them? – Does your shared drive folder hierarchy work well? – How long does it take to find a document? At what point do you give up? • When you create a document, do you know where it should be saved? – Are documents saved in more than one location to ease retrieval? • Does search work well? – What features would you like to see in search that would make it better for you and your team.
- 156. Compliance, Records Management & Off-line • Do you have any regulatory requirements that you need to meet? – ISO 9000 – Sarbanes-Oxley – Bill 198 • How are records management policies implemented? – Are there specific policies for document retention and destruction. • Do you have a need for off-line access? – Do you travel off-site for your work – Do you need to work when you are disconnected from the network.
- 157. Questions
- 159. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference The Outcome Using workshops, facilitation and by engaging the business you will define, prioritize, and phase SharePoint requirements.
- 160. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What to watch out for… Without clear requirements, prioritization and the right expectations being set SharePoint projects won’t scale well.
- 161. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What We Will Cover Today: 1. What Is SharePoint? 2. Understanding SharePoint Governance 3. Requirements Definition and Mapping 4.Visualizing and Communicating SharePoint Concepts 5. Making Information Architecture Decisions 6. Case Study Approach (Implementing SharePoint IA) 7. Information Architecture Tips and Tricks
- 163. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Understanding Metadata (and how to explain it to others)
- 165. Data about data
- 166. What is Metadata? I think I get it Oh! Now I see (Mostly) What is Metadata? I think I get it The BIG Question
- 167. What’s a
- 168. Let’s use a
- 169. What does a cow say?
- 170. What does a chicken say?
- 171. What does a duck say?
- 172. The sounds these animals make are attributes that distinguish them
- 173. Example from Yoav Lurie • Prince • Pop/Rock • 1984
- 175. Adapted from the “pea soup” story by Serge Tremblay
- 178. What is our Base Metaphor for files?
- 180. What if we saw this?
- 181. Better…
- 182. Solve with folders
- 183. Hire an intern
- 185. What is metadata?
- 186. This is metadata!
- 187. Not this! or this… What is Taxonomy?
- 189. Carl Linnaeus (1751)
- 190. Animal Kingdom Invertebrates Vertebrates Mammals Predators Primates Whales Rodents Squirrels Mice Mice & Rats Hamsters and Voles Real Hamsters Short-tailed dwarf hamsters Djungarian dwarf hampsters Roborovski Hamster Long-tailed dwarf hamsters Voles Gerbils Porcupines Guinea Pigs Fish Amphibians Reptiles Birds Taxonomy
- 191. Animal Kingdom Invertebrates Vertebrates Mammals Predators Primates Whales Rodents Squirrels Mice Mice & Rats Hamsters and Voles Real Hamsters Short-tailed dwarf hamsters Djungarian dwarf hampsters Roborovski Hamster Long-tailed dwarf hamsters Voles Gerbils Porcupines Guinea Pigs Fish Amphibians Reptiles Birds Taxonomy Superclass
- 192. Animal Kingdom Invertebrates Vertebrates Mammals Predators Primates Whales Rodents Squirrels Mice Mice & Rats Hamsters and Voles Real Hamsters Short-tailed dwarf hamsters Djungarian dwarf hampsters Roborovski Hamster Long-tailed dwarf hamsters Voles Gerbils Porcupines Guinea Pigs Fish Amphibians Reptiles Birds Taxonomy Class
- 193. Animal Kingdom Invertebrates Vertebrates Mammals Predators Primates Whales Rodents Squirrels Mice Mice & Rats Hamsters and Voles Real Hamsters Short-tailed dwarf hamsters Djungarian dwarf hampsters Roborovski Hamster Long-tailed dwarf hamsters Voles Gerbils Porcupines Guinea Pigs Fish Amphibians Reptiles Birds Taxonomy Order
- 194. Animal Kingdom Invertebrates Vertebrates Mammals Predators Primates Whales Rodents Squirrels Mice Mice & Rats Hamsters and Voles Real Hamsters Short-tailed dwarf hamsters Djungarian dwarf hampsters Roborovski Hamster Long-tailed dwarf hamsters Voles Gerbils Porcupines Guinea Pigs Fish Amphibians Reptiles Birds Taxonomy Suborder
- 195. Animal Kingdom Invertebrates Vertebrates Mammals Predators Primates Whales Rodents Squirrels Mice Mice & Rats Hamsters and Voles Real Hamsters Short-tailed dwarf hamsters Djungarian dwarf hampsters Roborovski Hamster Long-tailed dwarf hamsters Voles Gerbils Porcupines Guinea Pigs Fish Amphibians Reptiles Birds Taxonomy Family
- 196. Animal Kingdom Invertebrates Vertebrates Mammals Predators Primates Whales Rodents Squirrels Mice Mice & Rats Hamsters and Voles Real Hamsters Short-tailed dwarf hamsters Djungarian dwarf hampsters Roborovski Hamster Long-tailed dwarf hamsters Voles Gerbils Porcupines Guinea Pigs Fish Amphibians Reptiles Birds Taxonomy Subfamily
- 197. Animal Kingdom Invertebrates Vertebrates Mammals Predators Primates Whales Rodents Squirrels Mice Mice & Rats Hamsters and Voles Real Hamsters Short-tailed dwarf hamsters Djungarian dwarf hampsters Roborovski Hamster Long-tailed dwarf hamsters Voles Gerbils Porcupines Guinea Pigs Fish Amphibians Reptiles Birds Taxonomy Genus
- 198. Animal Kingdom Invertebrates Vertebrates Mammals Predators Primates Whales Rodents Squirrels Mice Mice & Rats Hamsters and Voles Real Hamsters Short-tailed dwarf hamsters Djungarian dwarf hampsters Roborovski Hamster Long-tailed dwarf hamsters Voles Gerbils Porcupines Guinea Pigs Fish Amphibians Reptiles Birds Taxonomy Species
- 199. Shared Drive Zoo X: Production Sales & Marketing Marketing Commercial Industrial Government Healthcare Labs Hospitals Private Public Large Urban Not Associated University Rural Medium Small Clinics Mobile Sales Web Design Newsletter Social Taxonomy
- 200. As we’ve already seen: This always works out great
- 201. Shared Drive Zoo X: Production Sales & Marketing Marketing Major Hospitals Commercial Industrial Government Healthcare Labs Hospitals Private Public Large Urban Not Associated University Rural Medium Small Clinics Mobile Colleges Big Small Sales Web Design Newsletter Social
- 202. Moving this mess to SharePoint makes it worse
- 203. SharePoint Sux
- 204. The #1 rule of SharePoint? Never use folders Except when it makes sense ever
- 205. Folders for Security Permissions assigned per folder
- 206. Folders in SP2010 – They’re back! • Combine metadata and folders • Best of both worlds
- 207. A SharePoint Taxonomy (Navigation)
- 208. Customer Type • Lab • Hospital • Clinic • Mobile Sector • Private • Public Size • Large • Medium • Small Location • Urban • Rural University • Yes • No A SharePoint Taxonomy (Metadata)
- 209. Adding Metadata (when uploading)
- 211. What is metadata?
- 212. What is Taxonomy?
- 213. What are content types?
- 214. Name _________ Emp. # _________ Date _________ Dates Requested: From __________ To: __________ Manager ________ Approved Y/N Name _________ Emp. # _________ Date _________ Drug Used: Name __________ Cost: $ _________ Manager ________ Approved Y/N Vacation Request Drug Reimbursement
- 215. Both Content Types in One Library
- 217. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference The Outcome Shared Understanding of Metadata’s Importance and Usage to Improve ‘Findability’ and Information Utility.
- 218. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What to watch out for… People Must Understand The Value Of Metadata, Or They Will Reject The Idea.
- 219. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Practical Applications of Mind Mapping
- 220. Same Page
- 221. Abstract
- 222. Concrete
- 226. What is Card Sorting?
- 227. “Card sorting is a great, reliable, inexpensive method for finding patterns in how users would expect to find content or functionality.” - Donna Spencer http://www.amazon.com/Card-Sorting-ebook/dp/B004VFUOL0
- 228. What are the types of card sort? Open & Closed
- 229. Open card sorting process Gerbil
- 230. Results Gerbil
- 231. But not always what you expect Ford Gerbil
- 232. But not always what you expect Ford Gerbil
- 234. Back On Track
- 235. Navigation workshops
- 236. Navigational Map
- 239. Build the Taxonomy
- 240. Build Mind Map (based on inventory worksheet)
- 241. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference The Outcome Using visual tools provides shared understanding, which is a crucial driver of shared commitment to a goal.
- 242. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What to watch out for… Workshops become much more interactive; hone your meeting facilitation skills to retain control and obtain value
- 243. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Wireframing, and Process Mapping
- 245. Balsamiq
- 246. Common Intranet Components Component Name Purpose Message from the President/Owner/Founder Informative News and Announcements Informative Blog Updates Informative Wiki Updates Informative System Status Informative Upcoming Events/Calendar Informative New Hires/Arrivals Informative Employee Anniversaries/Milestones/Years of Service Informative Recent Departures/Retirements Informative Videos Informative Photos Informative Podcasts Informative Stock Quotes Informative Stock Chart? Informative Weather Informative World Clocks/Office Time Informative Employee Spotlight Informative Contacts Informative Recent Discussions Informative Quick Links/Shortcuts/ Navigation Site Map Navigation Tag Cloud Navigation Search Box (Employee Search, Intranet Search, Etc) Navigation Polls Feedback Provide Feedback Feedback Component Name Purpose Email This Page Sharing Print This Page Sharing Search Tips Informative New Job Openings/Postings Informative Quick Start to Services Navigation How do I/Training/Learning Materials Informative Advertisements Informative New Messages/Notes Informative Availability Dashboard Informative Upcoming Calls/Web Meetings Informative Recent Questions and Recent Answers Informative Community Spotlight/Highlight Informative Site/Department/Team Spotlight/Highlight Informative Inspiring Quote Informative Highlighted/Urgent/Past Due Tasks Informative Most Viewed Content Informative Most Recently Contributed Content Informative Recently Added Projects Informative Survey Feedback Bookmarked Content Informative Top Searches Informative Discounts (Organizational for Retail) Informative Sales Goals Informative Visitors/People Out Of Office Informative Phone List Informative
- 247. Balsamiq DEMO
- 248. Wireframing Tip!
- 249. Don’t Forget Consistency Each Page Design Should Be Consistent Consistency Across User Environments Modify Provisioned Site (or Templates) Based on Need
- 251. Visio 2010 Demo
- 252. Common Intranet Processes • Absence Reporting and Vacation Scheduling • Expense Reimbursement • Equipment and Room Reservation and Management • Meeting Planning and Management • Policy Review and Approval • Booking Travel • Interview Management and Hiring Processes • Training Sign Up and Management • Event Planning • Change Request Management • Timecard/Time Tracking • Product Planning • Help Desk Ticket Management • Compliance Support • Contacts Management • Inventory Tracking • Lending Tracking • Sales Lead Pipeline
- 253. Roadmap
- 254. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Time Challenges in SharePoint Projects
- 255. What is the best approach to use when working with SharePoint?
- 256. ITERATIVE APPROACH
- 257. Why Iterative? SharePoint is a very large platform. It takes time to understand SharePoint. SharePoint is great for rapid prototyping, and for proof of concept work. It ensures there is enough time to review, adjust, and communicate.
- 258. Opportunistic driven learning Image from Paul Culmsee
- 259. Opportunistic driven learning Image from Paul Culmsee
- 262. Visualizing Timelines An easy way to create shared understanding of the impact estimates make on projects.
- 263. Visualizing Existing Timelines A great way to take existing project timelines and set stakeholder expectations or communicate impact of changes.
- 264. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference The Outcome Using an Iterative Approach keep learning impact in mind, use Visio Timelines to foster shared understanding and commitment.
- 265. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What to watch out for… Expectation is the timeline killer. If everyone has the same expectations then the timeline is never ‘off’.
- 266. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What We Will Cover Today: 1. What Is SharePoint? 2. Understanding SharePoint Governance 3. Requirements Definition and Mapping 4. Visualizing and Communicating SharePoint Concepts 5.Making Information Architecture Decisions 6. Case Study Approach (Implementing SharePoint IA) 7. Information Architecture Tips and Tricks
- 267. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Making Information Architecture Decisions
- 269. SharePoint Containment Hierarchy Documents, Items and Pages Folders and Document Sets Libraries and Lists Sites Site Collections Databases Web Applications Servers Farm What we care about from an information architecture perspective.
- 270. SharePoint Containment Hierarchy Metadata Item Documents, Events, Pages, Custom Item, Image, etc. Folders and Document Sets Lists Doc Libraries, Pages, Calendars, Discussions, Surveys, etc. Sites Team Sites, Publishing Sites, Meeting Workspaces, etc. Site Collections
- 271. Site Collection or Site (Subsite)? OR
- 272. Site Collection
- 273. Site Collection
- 274. When To Use A Site Collection
- 275. When To Use A Site Collection
- 276. When To Use A Site Collection
- 277. When To Use A Site Collection
- 278. When To Use A Site Collection
- 279. When To Use A Site Collection
- 280. When To Use A Site Collection Site Collection 1 Site Collection 2 Webparts & Aggregation Webparts & Aggregation Masterpages & Page Layouts Masterpages & Page Layouts Search Across Site Collection Boundaries Navigation Navigation
- 281. When To Use A Site Collection Group A Group B Group C Collection Admin A Collection Admin B Group Y Group Z Collection Admin Y Collection Admin Z Site Collection 1 Site Collection 2
- 282. Recommended Approach Bob Mixon on SharePoint 2007 Site Collections
- 284. AD Groups or SharePoint Groups? OR
- 285. Advantages Disadvantages SharePoint Group • Not reliant on AD (if your AD is a mess) • Distributed ownership and management options • Managed by users • Can be managed by the SharePoint Object Model • Members of these groups are visible to users in SharePoint. • Only used in SharePoint • Managed by (potentially) untrained users • One more place to manage security (independent of AD) • Cannot contain another SharePoint group as a member. Active Directory Group • Managed by domain administrators • Available in many systems • Centralized management and easier removal • Difficult to determine permissions assigned to people • Requires lots of planning • Members of these groups are not visible in SharePoint. • User can only be a member of 1024 AD groups (recursively). SharePoint Groups vs AD Groups
- 289. Targeted Code New in SharePoint 2010 SPRoleAssignmentCollection.AddToCurrentScopeOnly
- 290. Purpose of a List? • To Replace Excel Spreadsheets • To Track Complex Input From Multiple People • To Centralize Storage and Retrieval of Content • To Provide Validation, Easy To Use Online Forms • To Reduce Duplication of Effort
- 291. One List or Multiple Lists? OR
- 292. When To Use a Single List • You want to simplify viewing the same set of items. (When dispersed across many lists it requires additional effort to aggregate the lists). • You want to search for items in the same location. (When dispersed across many lists it requires additional effort to configure search scopes). • You want to easily apply consistent versioning, approval, metadata or form settings. • You want to receive consolidated updates on the collection of items (alerts or RSS).
- 293. When To Use Multiple Lists • You don’t expect people to need summaries of the items together. (When dispersed across many lists it requires additional effort to aggregate the lists). • You need to apply different versioning, approval, metadata, or form settings. • You want to distribute management of versioning, metadata, workflows or form settings. • You do not need to receive consolidated updates (alerts or RSS).
- 294. Advanced Uses Of Lists
- 295. One Library or Multiple Libraries? OR
- 296. When To Use a Single Library • You want to simplify viewing the same set of documents. (When dispersed across many libraries it requires additional effort to aggregate the libraries). • You want to search for documents in the same location. (When dispersed across many libraries it requires additional effort to configure search scopes). • You want to easily apply consistent versioning, approval, metadata or form settings. • You want to receive consolidated updates on the collection of documents (alerts or RSS).
- 297. When To Use Multiple Libraries • You don’t expect people to need summaries of the documents together. (When dispersed across many libraries it requires additional effort to aggregate the libraries). • You need to apply different versioning, approval, metadata, or form settings. • You want to distribute management of versioning, metadata, workflows or form settings. • You do not need to receive consolidated updates (alerts or RSS).
- 298. List and Content Type Tip!
- 299. Default Content Types and Metadata Values
- 300. Navigating with Metadata Tip!
- 301. Navigating with Metadata, not Folders
- 302. Set up with Library Settings
- 303. Configure Setttings
- 304. Filters the list
- 306. Content Organizer and Routing
- 307. Configure the router
- 309. Configure settings
- 310. Create Rules
- 311. Create/Modify Rules
- 313. Use the Drop-off Library
- 314. Add a document
- 315. Enter Metadata
- 318. Back to Drop-off library
- 319. Your document was moved
- 320. Rules don’t apply…
- 321. … it doesn’t get moved
- 323. The #1 rule of SharePoint? Never use folders Except when it makes sense ever
- 324. What’s wrong with folders? • Deep structures hard to navigate • Finding stuff is hard • Figuring out where to put stuff is even harder • Stuck with a rigid structure • Search is not the silver bullet
- 327. Metadata = No more folders • Filtering • Views
- 328. Really? No more folders? Ever? • What situations would you use folders? • Subdivide large libraries/lists • Security/Permissions This is a favourite of mine • Ease of use for users Really? No more folders?Really?
- 329. Downsides of Metadata • No free lunch (there is pain here) • Awful architectural choices to make – Multiple site collections • Good Practice • Bad for Metadata • Maintenance headache – Can be mitigated • Define at top level if possible
- 330. Folders for easy permissions • Create folder • Set permissions • Create view without folders • Easy for users (they only see what they are supposed to)
- 331. Folders and Default Values
- 333. The Sales document library
- 334. Drill down into Military folder
- 335. Drill down into Air-to-Ground
- 336. Add a new document here
- 337. Note: Some metadata prefilled
- 338. How did we do that? • Library tab • Library settings
- 339. Column default value settings
- 340. Select a folder and set defaults • Note folder inheritance
- 341. Set the default value
- 342. in SharePoint 2010 • Managed Metadata Service • Share Metadata across site collections • Multilingual Metadata (big gotcha ) • Hierarchical Metadata • Navigate via Metadata (already discussed) • Keywords/Folksonomy (Out of scope today) • Folders can assign default metadata (already discussed)
- 344. Adding Terms
- 345. Turn off “Available for Tagging” • Add sub elements: Proposal, Quote, Invoice • Leave “Available for Tagging checked”
- 346. Term Store Manager • Painful & Slow • Needs a better way • I created a ‘toy’ to try out some ideas • http://bit.ly/ruveng-mmts – Article links to other solutions (Excel)
- 348. CSV file for Import to Term Store
- 349. To Sum Up… • SharePoint 2007 – Folders BAAAAD! – Never use them – Except when the situation warrants • SharePoint 2010 – Folders GOOOOD! – Never use them – Except when the situation warrants
- 350. Folder or Document Set? OR
- 351. Folders vs. Document Sets Document Sets vs Folders
- 352. Document Sets Document Sets vs Folders
- 353. Folders and Default Values
- 354. Folders vs. Document Sets Document Sets vs Folders
- 355. Folders vs. Document Sets Document Sets vs Folders
- 356. Folders vs. Document Sets Document Sets vs Folders
- 357. Folders vs. Document Sets Document Sets vs Folders
- 358. Folders vs. Document Sets Document Sets vs Folders
- 359. Folders vs. Document Sets Document Library Document Folder Document Document Folder Folder Document Document Set Document Folder Folder Document Set Document Document
- 360. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference The Outcome You need to understand all of the SharePoint objects, their limitations, and their benefits to make effective decisions.
- 361. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What to watch out for… There is always a trade off and all information architecture decisions should be constantly re-evaluated.
- 362. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What We Will Cover Today: 1. What Is SharePoint? 2. Understanding SharePoint Governance 3. Requirements Definition and Mapping 4. Visualizing and Communicating SharePoint Concepts 5. Making Information Architecture Decisions 6.Case Study Approach (Implementing SharePoint IA) 7. Information Architecture Tips and Tricks
- 363. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Putting it all Together (a case study approach)
- 364. Introducing multiMEGA Industries The world’s leading supplier of Missiles, Produce and Soap
- 365. They Want A SharePoint Intranet!
- 366. Find and Involve Stakeholders
- 367. Educate Stakeholders
- 368. Define and Prioritize Objectives
- 370. Map Solutions to Objectives Centralize Knowledge and Resources Enhance Collaboration Automate and Improve Business Processes Enhance Governance Model Reduce Redundancy and Improve Efficiency Adjust Site Structure and Taxonomy Migrate File Shares Create Dashboards Implement Workflow Solutions Configure Search Services Branding Direct Relationship Indirect Relationship * Objectives/solutions should be more specific – Example purposes only.
- 371. Roadmap
- 372. Information Architecture and Governance Areas Above The Line versus Below The Line Permanent central portal - Few authors/Many readers Departmental Portlets Projects & Workspaces My Sites Communication Portal • Central navigation • Central taxonomy • Divisional stakeholders • Enterprise search Personal Collaboration •Local taxonomies •Local search Departmental portlets • Departments • Resources • Business Processes - Few authors/Many readers Semi Structured Team sites - Multiple authors Blogs, bios, Social Central Portal IncreasingStrictnessofGovernance
- 373. Navigation Workshops
- 375. Build Mind Map (based on inventory worksheet)
- 376. Common Intranet Processes • Absence Reporting and Vacation Scheduling • Expense Reimbursement • Equipment and Room Reservation and Management • Meeting Planning and Management • Policy Review and Approval • Booking Travel • Interview Management and Hiring Processes • Training Sign Up and Management • Event Planning • Change Request Management • Timecard/Time Tracking • Product Planning • Help Desk Ticket Management • Compliance Support • Contacts Management • Inventory Tracking • Lending Tracking • Sales Lead Pipeline
- 378. Structured Approach for Navigation Original Concept – 5 Steps to Structure SharePoint Sites
- 380. Common Intranet Components Component Name Purpose Message from the President/Owner/Founder Informative News and Announcements Informative Blog Updates Informative Wiki Updates Informative System Status Informative Upcoming Events/Calendar Informative New Hires/Arrivals Informative Employee Anniversaries/Milestones/Years of Service Informative Recent Departures/Retirements Informative Videos Informative Photos Informative Podcasts Informative Stock Quotes Informative Stock Chart? Informative Weather Informative World Clocks/Office Time Informative Employee Spotlight Informative Contacts Informative Recent Discussions Informative Quick Links/Shortcuts/ Navigation Site Map Navigation Tag Cloud Navigation Search Box (Employee Search, Intranet Search, Etc) Navigation Polls Feedback Provide Feedback Feedback Component Name Purpose Email This Page Sharing Print This Page Sharing Search Tips Informative New Job Openings/Postings Informative Quick Start to Services Navigation How do I/Training/Learning Materials Informative Advertisements Informative New Messages/Notes Informative Availability Dashboard Informative Upcoming Calls/Web Meetings Informative Recent Questions and Recent Answers Informative Community Spotlight/Highlight Informative Site/Department/Team Spotlight/Highlight Informative Inspiring Quote Informative Highlighted/Urgent/Past Due Tasks Informative Most Viewed Content Informative Most Recently Contributed Content Informative Recently Added Projects Informative Survey Feedback Bookmarked Content Informative Top Searches Informative Discounts (Organizational for Retail) Informative Sales Goals Informative Visitors/People Out Of Office Informative Phone List Informative
- 381. Identify Key Pages
- 382. Mockup Key Pages
- 383. Setup Your Governance Teams
- 384. Implement the steps • Find the stakeholders • Establish steering committee • Determine the goals of the project (no platitudes!) • “Requirements” Gathering Workshops • Roadmap and Timelines • Defining personas (who is our audience or audiences) • Card sorts • Navigation workshops • Wireframing workshops • Business process workshops • Document and Taxonomy workshops Governance
- 385. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference The Outcome A well planned information architecture approach will lead to better results.
- 386. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What to watch out for… Iterative improvements are necessary and should leverage a model like the one we just walked through.
- 387. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference 1. What Is SharePoint? 2. Understanding SharePoint Governance 3. Requirements Definition and Mapping 4. Visualizing and Communicating SharePoint Concepts 5. Making Information Architecture Decisions 6. Case Study Approach (Implementing SharePoint IA) 7. Information Architecture Tips and Tricks 1. Platform For Solutions That Achieve Business Objectives 2. Effective Teams, Patterns, And Practices Are Critical 3. Requirements Need To Be Carefully Considered 4. Shared Understanding And Shared Commitment Are Key 5. Every Decision Is More Effective With More Information 6. Practice And Experience Really Help 7. There Is So Much Out There You Can Use To Help Practical SharePoint IA Review…
- 388. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What We Will Cover Today: 1. What Is SharePoint? 2. Understanding SharePoint Governance 3. Requirements Definition and Mapping 4. Visualizing and Communicating SharePoint Concepts 5. Making Information Architecture Decisions 6. Case Study Approach (Implementing SharePoint IA) 7.Information Architecture Tips and Tricks
- 389. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Information Architecture Tips and Tricks
- 390. Make it easier to work with
- 391. Make it easier to work with Powerful Columns You Probably Didn’t Know About
- 392. Make it easier to work with Why Leveraging SharePoint Blog Features for News is a Great Idea
- 393. IBIS Dialog Mapping
- 394. Giving Estimates Two Simple Tricks For Making Better Estimates Never Give a Single Number 6 Hours! At least 2 hours… 4 hours maybe? How Long Will X Take You? 16? Way too much. 8 Tops. I better pick something in between… Forgotten/Not Shared Now That We Have Our Magic Number
- 395. Always Give Ranged Estimates Two Simple Tricks For Making Better Estimates Ranged Estimates Help Communicate Confidence and Set Expectations 2-8 Hours!
- 396. Are You Confident In That Range? Two Simple Tricks For Making Better Estimates 2-8
- 397. Are You Confident In That Range? Two Simple Tricks For Making Better Estimates ORWithin Range Actual Result OVERCONFIDENT
- 398. Are You Confident In That Range? Two Simple Tricks For Making Better Estimates ORWithin Range Actual Result LESS CONFIDENT
- 399. Are You Confident In That Range? Two Simple Tricks For Making Better Estimates ORWithin Range Actual Result 90% Confident
- 400. Give 90% Confident Ranged Estimates Two Simple Tricks For Making Better Estimates 2-8 Hours! Within Range =
- 401. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference The Outcome There are many ways that we can improve usability of SharePoint and as a result improve our Information Architecture.
- 402. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What to watch out for… Tips and Tricks are not enough to ensure successful Information Architecture.
- 403. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Full Name Email Address Role(s) IT Pro Developer End User Architect Biz Analyst Helps us understand where your experience with SharePoint has been and what roles were contained in our workshop audience. Allow Us To Keep In Touch And Send You SharePoint Information Architecture Resources Would you recommend this workshop to a colleague or friend?
- 404. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference What did you like best or what did you find useful? What was missing or what would you have liked to see?
- 405. SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference SPTechCon The SharePoint Technology Conference Thank You Organizers, Sponsors and You for Making this Possible. Questions? Ideas? Feedback? Contact us: Twitter: @ruveng & @rharbridge Blogs: spinsiders.com/ruveng & rharbridge.com Email us: ruveng@navantis.com & richard@rharbridge.com Resources: http://www.PracticalIntranet.com
Editor's Notes
- #2: My dedication to you before I begin. By the end of this you will have gained 3 things. It might be new knowledge, it might be a new method but you MUST gain 3 things by the end. If you don’t my first challenge to you is to stalk me, hunt me down and make sure you get 3 things from me. Because I owe you 3 things! This is meant to help you.
- #4: [ANIMATED]
- #5: [ANIMATED]
- #6: [ANIMATED]
- #7: Why are we here? We have a common goal: To implement a successful SharePoint Project
- #8: But… SharePoint is huge
- #9: And very complicated, with lots of moving parts
- #10: Even more complicated than SharePoint is people, and their moving parts (i.e. the way they think, their allegiances, their perceived roles within the organization)
- #11: We’re trying to find the best solution
- #12: But to do that, we need to know to best define the problem
- #13: We are here to share some ideas
- #14: … and give you some tools
- #15: These are not magic bullets: You will still experience frustrations and difficulties along the way
- #16: But everything we’ll show you has worked for us and helped us to deliver successful projects in the past.
- #17: My goal for you: Ability to move forward confidently, knowing that you have increased your chances of delivering a solution that really works for your customers.
- #18: The techniques and tools we show you will help you communicate with your stakeholders in ways that keep you and them committed to the same goals and on the same page = prerequisites for success
- #19: Practical, proven advice that will guide you in your project
- #45: A little detour into F Laws
- #46: Russell Ackoff: “f-Laws are truths about organisations that we might wish to deny or ignore – simple and more reliable guides to everyday behaviour than the complex truths proposed by scientists, economists, sociologists, politicians and philosophers” Adapted for SharePoint by Paul Culmsee
- #47: An objective should not be filled with operationally meaningless superlatives such as biggest, best, optimum, and maximum; for example, one company says it wants to "maximize its growth potential," another "to provide products of the highest quality." How in the world can a company determine whether it has attained growth potential or highest quality?
- #48: Now lets get back on-track
- #60: Speak to Owen Allen (creator of this map) for details on this
- #69: Dominating the skyline of Arkhangelsk, a city in Russia's far north-west, it is believed to be the world's tallest wooden house, soaring 13 floors to reach 144ft - about half the size of the tower of Big Ben. The house that Sutyagin built is also crumbling, incomplete and under threat of demolition from city authorities determined to end the former convict's eccentric 15-year project. When Sutyagin began work on his dacha in 1992, he claims he was only intending to build a two-storey house - larger than those of his neighbours to reflect his position as the city's richest man, but certainly not a contender for the Guinness Book of Records. However, convinced by a trip to see wooden houses in Japan and Norway, he concluded that he had not used roof space efficiently enough and decided to keep building. "First I added three floors but then the house looked ungainly, like a mushroom," he said. "So I added another and it still didn't look right so I kept going. What you see today is a happy accident." There were other motives too. Having grown up in a Soviet communal flat, Sutyagin said he felt lonely living by himself. Not only would his house make a perfect love nest for his molls, it could also accommodate the 18 executives at his construction company.
- #96: This is to set the conceptual scene You will see this diagram a lot.
- #133: Requirements is NOT the right word to use here (but you have to because your clients and stakeholders expect it). (Sue Hanley first pointed this out to me.)
- #134: Because I said so, and I’m the customer. If you don’t include my requirement, I’ll shoot! One of my biggest jobs as a SharePoint BA is to manage this desire. My three rules of SharePoint: Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity
- #135: What if we say: We can do that for $10. Client says: Go for it!
- #136: What if we say: We can do that… for $1 Million. Client says: Wait a sec – maybe we can think of some alternatives (Hey! Maybe it’s no longer a ‘requirement’)
- #137: So, what happens when the customer says “I need this” This is the “we need it all” solution – often arrived at before defining the problem
- #138: SharePoint suffers from “The Hammer Problem”: When you have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. And SharePoint is one giant mother of a hammer
- #139: So, what happens when the customer says “I need this” This is the “we need it all” solution – often arrived at before defining the problem The “Hammer” problem
- #140: Think about alternatives: Is it close by?
- #141: How fast do I need to get there – who needs to come with me
- #142: Is a less flexible but more cost-effective solution already out there
- #143: Is the destination specialized and particularly hard to get to?
- #144: Maybe we need to really think outside the box
- #145: Simple is not ALWAYS the best solution: There are times when a complex and expensive solution is the only way to get the required destination
- #146: Bottom line: Arrive at outcomes, not requirements
- #147: The other problem with requirements is that you only have one time to mention them, so you want ALLLLL of them to be met. So, you put everything in that you can think of… SharePoint lets you be ‘agile’ Start with the three rules: Simplicity/Simplicity/Simplicity Ideas from: PragPub Feb 2011 – Pragmatic Programmers Way of the Agile Warrior - by Jonathan Rasmusson
- #148: But the reality is that most requirements never get used as designed because the landscape changes under your feet.
- #149: And this causes you to change course, sometimes even before that ‘required’ item is even finished being built or tested.
- #150: Leading to a bunch of rusty tools lying around that cause trouble for years. e.g. what happens when you need to upgrade or migrate? Someone has to chip the rust off to see if this stuff is even useful anymore
- #151: The result is wasted money
- #152: So, shifting gears: I’ve explained what we should not be doing. What CAN we do?
- #153: What would you like SharePoint to do? Well, what can it do? Tons! Let me show you What do I need that for? Well, it depends… what do you want it for? Well, it LOOKS cool – sure: I want it.
- #154: Favorite phrase: If you don’t know where you’re going, any path will get you there.
- #155: But First: DO NOT DEMO SharePoint Confuses people Sets unreasonable expectations
- #156: The focus here needs to be on pain points and outcomes: NOT Requirements Try to stick to one team at a time 3 – 8 people is ideal – up to 12-15 can work. Need to make sure you hear from everyone Don’t let manager dominate Make SURE you get front-line workers, not just managers Book 1.5 hours – plan on an hour and a bit. People love some extra un-booked time at the end.
- #157: The following slides are a sample deck that I use in workshops
- #160: Most people hate the pie, but I like to use it to set scope ARM WRESTLE WITH RICHARD ON THIS ONE?
- #167: Now, it’s ok to build a demo: Use their language, colors, logo Show ‘day in the life’ type scenario
- #171: The requirements are gathered, documented and approved. The solution is developed and shared with the stakeholders. This isn’t what we meant!
- #173: Everyone knows…
- #174: It’s “Data about Data” as Einstein proved all those years ago
- #175: I won’t tell you yet but… It is an iterative process – you won’t understand it right away, but you will circle in towards understanding over time [ANIMATED]
- #176: Metadata is a new concept for many Use of metaphors to explain the concepts
- #177: Metadata is a new concept for many Use of metaphors to explain the concepts
- #181: Ok, so that was goofing around – now let’s get serious.
- #182: The music is the content You can know a lot of facts about the album: Prince Pop/Rock 1984 You can know all the facts, but it doesn’t substitute for the content (the music) (Purple Rain example originally suggested by Yoav Lurie)
- #183: How do you sort CD’s Artist? Title? Year? Genre? Colour? You have to decide up-front – and stick to it –because the objects are physical
- #184: What if the store was full of unlabeled tin cans? You would need to open every can to see if had what you wanted (Tin can example originally suggested by Serge Tremblay)
- #185: Now we don’t need to open each can, but they are all in a jumble and you have to pick up each can to check if has what you want.
- #186: Items are grouped by area (canned fruit, canned sauce, canned vegetables) Signs point you to the correct area so that you can quickly find what you need. BUT: Because the objects are physical, you need to pick a method and stick to it
- #187: This uses the base metaphor that we live with every day. The concept of a “file” and a “file folder” as a way of storing digital data is a metaphor taken from the world of paper management It has become so ingrained, that we think of it as natural, but it’s not: It was invented in 1983 by Apple (wikipedia)
- #189: All your files are stored in one folder and their names are completely meaningless This is like the unlabeled cans: You have to open each file to see what it contains
- #190: You have a bit of a better situation The naming convention lets you find the file you need (but there’s no way to sort by year) Rely on users to follow the naming convention (religiously)
- #191: A ha! Now we’re in great shape. We’re like the supermarket Structured and Labelled BUT...
- #192: ... then, you hire a summer intern Who doesn’t know the folder hierarchy and makes up their own
- #193: Findability is challenging Putability is the real problem This is Bill English’s word for knowing where to save a document What if we could make putability easier while also improving findability? This is the promise of metadata
- #194: Data about data Yes, but not enough info Seth Maislin of Earley & Assoc. says it's the "Is-ness" of something: This 'is' a contract. That 'is' a pop album. For us it enables findability, policy and process Findability for locating the right documents Policy – records management Process – Status of a business process (e.g. Not started, In process, Complete, Approved, Archived)
- #195: So, let’s create an alternative structure that is logically equivalent, but that makes putability much easier while preserving findability By the way: One way to start to figure out an organization’s metadata is to look at the folder names. You will probably not want to simply copy this, but it can be a good guide/starting point
- #196: It’s not this… (visual joke) [ANIMATED]
- #197: It’s not this… (visual joke) [ANIMATED]
- #198: It’s this… Not really this, but let’s use these creatures to understand.
- #199: Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy
- #208: This works because it’s really about governance – this is a stable structure that can’t be changed by just anybody: Changing this structure requires a world-wide meeting of the top scientists in the field, usually involving name-calling and fist-fights (or so I’ve heard) [ANIMATED]
- #209: Did you catch the subtle change here. The taxonomy is now of your ‘X’ drive.
- #210: And this is a common result
- #211: Problem here is lack of governance – anyone can add any folder anywhere anytime This boils down to the ‘putability’ problem – I’ll search for a long time to find a doc, but not for long to see where to put it. [ANIMATED]
- #212: Once you’ve migrated your x drive to SharePoint, and all the promised benefits fail to emerge, The reaction is: (next slide)
- #214: Never, ever, use folders! Except when it makes sense to do so. [ANIMATED]
- #216: [ANIMATED]
- #218: Back on track
- #219: I’m not Carl, but let’s talk about why this works. After all, it’s the same as a directory tree The difference is governance
- #221: Is this too many to ask for? Do we force users to answer all these questions/enter all this data?
- #222: Instead of confusing people with the SharePoint interface, I use a familiar tool: Excel Using some simple macros, I am able to illustrate the power of filters and views. There’s no free lunch however: People now have to enter metadata. We can simplify this by defaulting values like “Date” to today and “Year” to current year. We can leverage content types as well
- #226: Think of them as different forms with slots to fill in. Two documents may have overlapping slots (or, metadata). It may make sense to store these two types of docs in the same library (HR Requests), but use content types to drive workflow, policy and prompt users only for the metadata that applies. [ANIMATED]
- #227: Think of them as different forms with slots to fill in. Two documents may have overlapping slots (or, metadata). It may make sense to store these two types of docs in the same library (HR Requests), but use content types to drive workflow, policy and prompt users only for the metadata that applies. [ANIMATED]
- #229: [ANIMATED]
- #233: To achieve success, you need shared commitment To get that, you need to get to shared understanding Sing from the same song-book: Get onto the same page
- #234: What is this a picture of? With a lot of experience, training or imagination, you may figure something out – but the concept is ABSTRACT
- #235: This is something that people understand and agree on. It is concrete Visual tools can help make the abstract into the concrete
- #236: MindManager (from MindJet) is a tool that has changed the way I work. Here is a quick demo of how it works.
- #238: Now lets get back on-track
- #239: A little detour into Card Sorting
- #240: A technique to get input or feedback from users You may have great ideas of how to organize you intranet, but you users may have different ideas Donna Spencer says: “Card sorting is a great, reliable, inexpensive method for finding patterns in how users would expect to find content or functionality.”
- #247: The analysis can be useful, but it is the process of watching people do the sorts that helps provide the real value
- #248: Now lets get back on-track
- #250: Using Mind Maps for navigational design makes this process MUCH faster and more efficient.
- #251: First, I do a presentation about what metadata is to a collection of groups Give them homework Then, bring them back to build taxonomy: This needs to be done with just one group at a time
- #253: Note: Picture of ‘tacks’ is a visual joke – it doesn’t mean anything
- #254: Using mind-mapping tools to build the taxonomy from the homework I use MindJet MindManager – and I like and highly recommend it. There are other tools that are less expensive.
- #258: What is wireframing? Creating page mockups that show the function and structure of the page without the fonts/colors/images, etc
- #259: This tool called ‘Balsamiq’ makes it extremely simple and fast to make wireframes. They look cartoonish, but that makes it easy to focus on what’s important (not color, font, etc.)
- #264: Even without building an automated workflow, it’s essential to understand the business process of your customers. Use BizAgi (which is free to download) or Visio 2010 to map these processes.
- #267: If you are lucky, you can take the results of these workshops and activities and create a roadmap for a phased, rational approach to SharePoint deployment. Push HARD to do this step. Summarize workshop results Build Gap Analysis Identify dependencies Lay out a timeline (not a project plan at this point)
- #280: The Outcome Using a mixture of education, communication, and visualization we can significantly mitigate the risk of ‘This isn’t what we wanted!’ What to watch out for… It seems easier to avoid taking the time to use many of these techniques. Always keep in mind that there is never only one version of a solution.
- #288: To Impose Specific Storage Quotas With SharePoint Site Collections you can define specific storage quotas and email warnings to notify users when they are approaching a defined threshold on their site collection storage. To Impose Specific Sandbox Quotas With a SharePoint Site Collection you can define the maximum number of points sandbox solutions can use per day. Additionally you can also configure an email warning when storage exceeds a certain number of points.
- #289: For Search Separation For Workflow Separation
- #290: So Your Site Collection Does Not Have The Same Active (or Inactive) Site Collection Features There are many times when this comes in handy. In SharePoint 2010 there are quite a few Site Collection level features you may not want active on specific site collections. Site collection features that are not active on other site collections (for example, the Publishing Infrastructure feature)
- #292: For Search Separation For Workflow Separation So Your Site Collection Does Not Have The Same Active (or Inactive) Site Collection Features There are many times when this comes in handy. In SharePoint 2010 there are quite a few Site Collection level features you may not want active on specific site collections. Site collection features that are not active on other site collections (for example, the Publishing Infrastructure feature) To Have a Separate Help Library to Store Custom Help
- #294: Disadvantages of Using Site Collections All out-of-the-box Web Parts understand and work well within the boundaries of a Site Collection. None of them, including the significantly used Content Query Web Part, will cross Site Collection boundaries. Thus, the aggregation of information across Site Collection boundaries is not possible using out-of-the-box Web Parts. You need to consider this when determining how you will split your information across Site Collections. Any situation that requires you to aggregate and display information across Site Collection boundaries will require a custom development effort or the purchase of a 3rd party Web Part. Your branding and content publishing customization efforts will also have to be duplicated. Currently, all master pages, page layouts, and CSS files, common publishing images and reusable content is bound to a Site Collection.
- #295: For Security Management Benefits: Every site collection creates a security boundary between one collection of sites and another collection of sites. Each site collection has its own collection of SharePoint groups and ACL references. You cannot see a complete list of Users who have permissions to the site or Object Users are members of more than one AD Group Work backwards to figure out permissions 2010 – 1000 objects in an ACL, 5000 Objects per SharePoint Group The more ACLs you have, the more ACLs you have to manage Know the Software Boundaries and Capacity limits http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262787.aspx For Privacy or Management Benefits and Different Site Collection Administrators Each site collection has a role of “Site Collection Administrator” and a person or more assigned to that role. There are times when either for privacy/confidentiality reasons you cannot have a specific site collection administrator with the rights to see that sites content, or where you have different people that should be assigned to manage that collection of sites. The second is an extremely common scenario in large enterprise organizations where there is a need to distribute the technical ownership of site collection administration.
- #296: The Controlled Intranet If your goals are to create an environment that nurtures the sharing of knowledge and intellectual property (IP), there are two critical success factors that must be adhered to. We must make the addition of knowledge in the solution as simple as possible. This is accomplished by: Thoroughly understanding how our Information Workers perform their daily job duties. Craft a solution that simplifies these duties by automating operational business processes. Implement your Intranet in such a manner as to ease where this knowledge is stored. Provide a solution that makes locating information quick and simple so our Information Workers can make better, informed business decisions. We accomplish this by: Providing topical, functional and task-based site structures that aggregate knowledge in a manner making it easy to locate based on a need. Architect knowledge in such a manner as to provide “very” relevant search results. The only way for you to successfully deliver a solution that adheres to these two critical success factors is to architect your corporate knowledge (information) in a manner that lends itself to aggregation and search. And, the only way to do that is through a detailed and carefully thought-out taxonomy. Simply tossing information into lists and libraries will only result in yet another repository that is similar to a file share. For an organization to successfully implement a controlled environment that improves operational efficiencies requires governance. The term governance itself implies rules, policies and best practices for the flow of information through an organization. Collab areas: It is also in the collaboration environments that you will find the greatest number of sites. Make sure you set the appropriate expectations (communicate, communicate, and communicate): Information in these sites is less structured; which means you will typically see less relevant search results. This area can quickly grow to thousands of sites. Don’t let 5,000, 10,000 or even 30,000 sites scare you; simply make sure you have the appropriate infrastructure to support it. Govern the amount of information that can be stored on each site; configure quotas. Govern the length of time a site may remain inactive. Provide a means of archival. Do Collaboration Sites Ever Become Controlled? Absolutely! You may find that a team creates a secure collaboration environment to start a community of practice. Over time, information may become key to driving success in the organization. In such a situation, the team may ask to convert the site to a more structured environment so its content is available to everyone in the organization. There are many ways of accomplishing this task. The easiest is to leave the site intact, and move it through your internal architecture/design processes. These processes will force some level of structure, including taxonomy; which will make the information available for aggregation and search (even constrained search). You can then update your search configuration to include its content in a manner that best suits your organizational information needs. Another approach would be to provide a controlled means of moving the site and content to the Controlled Intranet Site Collection.
- #297: more than 1000 security scopes (broken inheritance) leads to performance degradation. 50k scopes per list/doc lib is a limit or - more than 50k unique permissions per list is a hard limit. The Practical Limit? 2000 users/groups given access 5k users/ad groups per sharepoint group When you add a user or group to a unique ‘scope’ (broken permissions) it actually adds that user or group with ‘limited access’ to each scope in the hierarchy above the item… Best practice: Rely on group membership instead of indivudal user membership in the scopes. For example, if a single group can be used in place of 1,000 users, the scope will be 999 membership entries smaller for the scope and any of its parent scopes which will be updated with Limited Access rights for that single group instead of all 1,000 individual users with Limited Access rights. This additionally helps increase the speed of Limited Access rights push and ACL recalculation at the parent scope objects. Deep hierarchies also impact performance considerably. So try and avoid very deep hierarchies with unique permissions.
- #299: Note: We do not recommend that you use SharePoint groups to assign permissions to sites, because when a SharePoint group is used to assign permissions, a full crawl of the index occurs. Instead, we recommend Domain groups to be used.
- #300: We recommend that you use FGP for only those business cases for which it is required. FGP can be expensive in terms of both operational oversight and performance. If you must use fine-grained permissions, consider the following recommended practices: Ensure that you do not have too many items at the same level of hierarchy in the document libraries, because the time necessary to process items in the views increases.
- #301: You can avoid the use of FGP by doing the following: Break permission inheritance as infrequently as possible. Use groups based on directory membership to assign permissions. Assign permissions at the highest possible level. As part of this strategy, consider the following techniques: Use different document publish levels to control access. Before a document is published, the advanced permissions and versioning settings can be set for users who can only approve items in the document library. For non-document libraries (lists), use the ReadSecurity and WriteSecurity permission levels. When a list is created, the owners can set the Item-level permissions to either Read access or Create and Edit access.
- #302: Basically manage permissions by each SharePoint site uniquely (instead of at a fine grained level). So use the 3 built in groups or AD groups etc and set permissions at the web level. From another point of view, if you have a large list where you want to uniquely set permissions try having ‘more than one list’ in multiple webs to get around some of the performance impact involved (2k unique permissions per web as an example). It avoids a lot of the hierarchy performance hits we discussed. Of course even better is using multiple site collections, but for now we will keep it simple and say at a minimum an effective way would be doing it at the web level (or even list/library level before getting to the item level).
- #303: Use event handlers to control edit permission. You can have an event handler that registers an event using the SPEventReceiverType.ItemUpdating and SPEventReceiverType.ItemUpdated methods, and then use code to control whether the update should be allowed. This is extremely powerful, because you can make security decision based on any metadata of a list or item, without affecting the view rendering performance. Use AddToCurrentScopeOnly method to assign Limited Access membership within a SharePoint group. The key element in this principle is to redesign the architecture so that scope membership does not cause ACL recalculation at the parent document library and Web. This is mainly applicable if the cause of the excessive number of unique scopes was through an automated process such as an event handler or workflow that dynamically modified object permissions. The recommendation in this case is to make a code change to whatever process was creating the unique security scopes.
- #306: Your group needs to see summary information about the list items or different views of the same set of items. For example, a manager may want to see the progress on all technical issues for an organization or see all the issues that were filed within the same time period. People want to browse or search for the issues in the same location on a site. You want to apply the same settings to the list items, such as tracking versions or requiring approval. The groups working on the list share similar characteristics, such as the same levels of permission. Unique permission can be applied to specific list items, but if the levels of permission vary greatly, consider multiple lists. You want to analyze information about the list or receive consolidated updates for the list. You can receive alerts when the list items are changed or see the changes to a list by using RSS technology. RSS feeds enable members of your workgroup to see a consolidated list of information that has changed.
- #307: You don't expect people to need summaries of the items together. The groups of people working with the information are distinct and have different permission levels. You need to apply different settings, such as versioning or approval, to multiple sets of items. You do not need to analyze the items together or receive consolidated updates about the list.
- #310: Your group needs to see summary information about, or different views of, the same set of files. For example, a manager may want to see all files grouped by department or by due date. People want to search for the files in the same location on a site. You want to apply the same settings to files, such as tracking versions of files or requiring approval. The groups that are working with the library share similar characteristics, such as the same levels of permission. You want to analyze information about the files in a spreadsheet, or to receive consolidated updates about the files.
- #311: The types of files that you want to store and manage are distinct, and you don't expect people to frequently view summaries of the files or to search the files together. The groups of people who are using the files are distinct and have distinctly different permission levels. You need to apply different settings, such as versioning or approval, to different sets of files. You do not need to analyze the files together or receive consolidated updates about the files. You want to provide different sets of options for creating new files, or you want the options on the New menu of a library to appear in a different order.
- #313: You can set the default content type of a library – and set that content type’s default values so that any item added to that library will automatically have metadata associated with it.
- #320: Use if you have clear organizing requirements Deploy a good Search Architecture Search Based Navigation Don’t forget to turn on the Content Organizer Feature – on the Target Site too! Don’t forget to implement Content Types in the Target Libraries Teach the users!
- #337: Never, ever, use folders! Except when it makes sense to do so. [ANIMATED]
- #342: Ease of use for users: File Open/Save – reduce metadata load
- #358: Managed Metadata Services Term Store Hierarchical collection of terms Multilingual Synonyms LimitMaximum valueLimit typeNotesMaximum number of levels of nested terms in a term store 7 Supported Terms in a term set can be represented hierarchically. A term set can have up to seven levels of terms (a parent term, and six levels of nesting below it.) Maximum number of term sets in a term store 1000 Supported You can have up to 1000 term sets in a term store. Maximum number of terms in a term set 30,000 Supported 30,000 is the maximum number of terms in a term set. Note: Additional labels for the same term, such as synonyms and translations, do not count as separate terms. Total number of items in a term store 1,000,000 Supported An item is either a term or a term set. The sum of the number of terms and term sets cannot exceed 1,000,000. Additional labels for the same term, such as synonyms and translations, do not count as separate terms. Note: You cannot have both the maximum number of term sets and the maximum number of terms simultaneously in a term store.
- #367: Webpage (instead of just a folder name and possible metadata)
- #370: Synchronization of metadata The ability to synchronize metadata allows users to change metadata on multiple items at once within a collection of content. Frequently users will want to do a bulk change of metadata stored within a folder. The most common way to achieve this using Folders is by utilizing the Datasheet View for document libraries, which allows users to bulk change properties quickly. However, this can be error prone and has limitations, such as the inability to change Managed Metadata fields. In contrast, Document Sets allow the ability to configure a column as a Shared Column. Shared Columns then share metadata across the entire Document Set. By changing the column value at the document set, all content contained within the Document Set will be updated with the new value without the user manually having to change each individual document. Another advantage is that all columns types are supported, so users can also easily change Managed Metadata columns for all content as well.
- #372: Running workflows on multiple items with SharePoint Designer Running workflows on multiple items is another commonly asked for requirement in many organizations. The ability to send multiple items through an approval process is something that commonly appears on a list of requirements when organizations are implementing SharePoint. With folders there is really no other option than to manually start an Approval process on each item. Unfortunately even though you can now select multiple items to perform actions on within Lists and Libraries, you cannot do this with workflows. If you have ten documents that you need to send through an Approval process, then it's a rather laborious process. Of course you can create custom workflows in .NET code to solve this issue and it's a good example of where the new Site Workflow type may be used. However, if we are limiting ourselves to out-of-the-box or SharePoint Designer declarative workflows then we are out of luck. With Document Sets we have new Workflow Actions available in SharePoint Designer 2010. This means that we can indeed send an entire Document Set through an Approval Process. Since a Document Set includes multiple documents, we are in effect sending multiple items through an approval process
- #373: Provisioning of default content The ability to create a template and have this reused when a user is creating a document is commonly used in SharePoint. The power of Content Types within the platform can be harnessed very effectively to create these templates and deploy them across multiple sites. However, often we don't require just a single document to be created, but rather a collection of documents to be provisioned. For example consider a project submission pack or a RFP Response that consists of multiple documents. In an ideal world, a user would be able to create collections of documents quickly and easily. If using the folder approach, you can only create single documents, one at a time. So if a user wanted to create a project submission pack then they would create the folder that would house these documents, and then create each individual Content Type one at a time. This is obviously a cumbersome approach. In contrast Document Sets allow us to provision default content when the Document Set is created. So if we create a RFP Response Document Set we can choose to have default content created when a user creates the Document Set:
- #374: Folders can have folders under them etc. Doc sets cant.
- #384: The focus here needs to be on pain points and outcomes: NOT Requirements Try to stick to one team at a time 3 – 8 people is ideal – up to 12-15 can work. Need to make sure you hear from everyone Don’t let manager dominate Make SURE you get front-line workers, not just managers Book 1.5 hours – plan on an hour and a bit. People love some extra un-booked time at the end.
- #387: This is to set the conceptual scene You will see this diagram a lot.
- #389: First, I do a presentation about what metadata is to a collection of groups Give them homework Then, bring them back to build taxonomy: This needs to be done with just one group at a time
- #390: Using mind-mapping tools to build the taxonomy from the homework I use MindJet MindManager – and I like and highly recommend it. There are other tools that are less expensive.
- #392: Even without building an automated workflow, it’s essential to understand the business process of your customers. Use BizAgi (which is free to download) or Visio 2010 to map these processes.
- #394: What is wireframing? Creating page mockups that show the function and structure of the page without the fonts/colors/images, etc
- #396: This tool called ‘Balsamiq’ makes it extremely simple and fast to make wireframes. They look cartoonish, but that makes it easy to focus on what’s important (not color, font, etc.)
- #397: This tool called ‘Balsamiq’ makes it extremely simple and fast to make wireframes. They look cartoonish, but that makes it easy to focus on what’s important (not color, font, etc.)
- #423: The first tip I will give is to never ever give a single number. As an example when asked how long it will take to make ‘report A’ let the requester know a range that you feel comfortable with. Why a range? Realistically in a quick situation like that if you don’t give a range it won’t indicate how uncertain you are about the estimate. If you were thinking about the request and felt like the task would take somewhere between 2-8 hours then communicating only a single value guess such as ’6 hours’ can be misleading as it doesn’t include any information about how confident you are.
- #424: So the first thing we need to agree on is that quickly estimating a ‘single number’ (without math/careful consideration) typically leads to poor results in both setting the right expectation and being accurate.
- #425: Now onto the difficulties of even coming up with a range of possibilities. One of the hardest parts of estimating is coming up with a range you feel really confident in. Basically when you give an estimate you should give a range that you feel 90% confident that the real value will fall within that range (90% is the suggested optimal confidence level due to the effort involved in getting more than 90%). You don’t have to be perfect but you have to feel willing to bet on it. In other words if you consider giving a range of 2-8 hours on a task as an estimate you should confirm that you are actually 90% confident that the total time will fall between that range. There is a trick (one of many) that Douglas mentions in his book that is easy to remember and use for testing whether you are actually close to 90% confident about an estimate. Imagine that you win $2000 in one of two ways: A) You will win $2000 if the true time it takes turns out to be between the upper and lower bounds you provided. If not then you win nothing. B) You draw a M&M at random from a bag of 9 red M&M’s and 1 blue M&M. If the M&M is red you win $2000. If it is blue you win nothing. Which option would you take? If you choose B) (which statistically most people do) then it means you might not be 90% confident but actually less confident (say 80%, 60% etc). If you choose A) it’s also not really what we want because it means you are probably over confident (especially if you felt strongly geared toward A). So you adjust the bounds (upper and lower) until you find a place where you feel indifferent between option A) and B) – that is ‘probably’ your 90% confidence level for this estimate. It’s not as complicated (or in some ways as effective) as many other methods you can use to calibrate how confident you are about your estimates but it works and is easy to remember and start implementing immediately.
- #426: Now onto the difficulties of even coming up with a range of possibilities. One of the hardest parts of estimating is coming up with a range you feel really confident in. Basically when you give an estimate you should give a range that you feel 90% confident that the real value will fall within that range (90% is the suggested optimal confidence level due to the effort involved in getting more than 90%). You don’t have to be perfect but you have to feel willing to bet on it. In other words if you consider giving a range of 2-8 hours on a task as an estimate you should confirm that you are actually 90% confident that the total time will fall between that range. There is a trick (one of many) that Douglas mentions in his book that is easy to remember and use for testing whether you are actually close to 90% confident about an estimate. Imagine that you win $2000 in one of two ways: A) You will win $2000 if the true time it takes turns out to be between the upper and lower bounds you provided. If not then you win nothing. B) You draw a M&M at random from a bag of 9 red M&M’s and 1 blue M&M. If the M&M is red you win $2000. If it is blue you win nothing. Which option would you take? If you choose B) (which statistically most people do) then it means you might not be 90% confident but actually less confident (say 80%, 60% etc). If you choose A) it’s also not really what we want because it means you are probably over confident (especially if you felt strongly geared toward A). So you adjust the bounds (upper and lower) until you find a place where you feel indifferent between option A) and B) – that is ‘probably’ your 90% confidence level for this estimate. It’s not as complicated (or in some ways as effective) as many other methods you can use to calibrate how confident you are about your estimates but it works and is easy to remember and start implementing immediately.
- #427: Now onto the difficulties of even coming up with a range of possibilities. One of the hardest parts of estimating is coming up with a range you feel really confident in. Basically when you give an estimate you should give a range that you feel 90% confident that the real value will fall within that range (90% is the suggested optimal confidence level due to the effort involved in getting more than 90%). You don’t have to be perfect but you have to feel willing to bet on it. In other words if you consider giving a range of 2-8 hours on a task as an estimate you should confirm that you are actually 90% confident that the total time will fall between that range. There is a trick (one of many) that Douglas mentions in his book that is easy to remember and use for testing whether you are actually close to 90% confident about an estimate. Imagine that you win $2000 in one of two ways: A) You will win $2000 if the true time it takes turns out to be between the upper and lower bounds you provided. If not then you win nothing. B) You draw a M&M at random from a bag of 9 red M&M’s and 1 blue M&M. If the M&M is red you win $2000. If it is blue you win nothing. Which option would you take? If you choose B) (which statistically most people do) then it means you might not be 90% confident but actually less confident (say 80%, 60% etc). If you choose A) it’s also not really what we want because it means you are probably over confident (especially if you felt strongly geared toward A). So you adjust the bounds (upper and lower) until you find a place where you feel indifferent between option A) and B) – that is ‘probably’ your 90% confidence level for this estimate. It’s not as complicated (or in some ways as effective) as many other methods you can use to calibrate how confident you are about your estimates but it works and is easy to remember and start implementing immediately.
- #428: Now onto the difficulties of even coming up with a range of possibilities. One of the hardest parts of estimating is coming up with a range you feel really confident in. Basically when you give an estimate you should give a range that you feel 90% confident that the real value will fall within that range (90% is the suggested optimal confidence level due to the effort involved in getting more than 90%). You don’t have to be perfect but you have to feel willing to bet on it. In other words if you consider giving a range of 2-8 hours on a task as an estimate you should confirm that you are actually 90% confident that the total time will fall between that range. There is a trick (one of many) that Douglas mentions in his book that is easy to remember and use for testing whether you are actually close to 90% confident about an estimate. Imagine that you win $2000 in one of two ways: A) You will win $2000 if the true time it takes turns out to be between the upper and lower bounds you provided. If not then you win nothing. B) You draw a M&M at random from a bag of 9 red M&M’s and 1 blue M&M. If the M&M is red you win $2000. If it is blue you win nothing. Which option would you take? If you choose B) (which statistically most people do) then it means you might not be 90% confident but actually less confident (say 80%, 60% etc). If you choose A) it’s also not really what we want because it means you are probably over confident (especially if you felt strongly geared toward A). So you adjust the bounds (upper and lower) until you find a place where you feel indifferent between option A) and B) – that is ‘probably’ your 90% confidence level for this estimate. It’s not as complicated (or in some ways as effective) as many other methods you can use to calibrate how confident you are about your estimates but it works and is easy to remember and start implementing immediately.
- #429: So the first thing we need to agree on is that quickly estimating a ‘single number’ (without math/careful consideration) typically leads to poor results in both setting the right expectation and being accurate.
- #434: A lot of this can seem daunting and I know one of the hardest things is figuring out how to do some of the things I have shown today. If you are interested in further training or assistance please let me know. Based on the number of people who are interested and the areas of interest we can schedule further training sessions to help everyone better use the SharePoint portal. It's our commitment to you that we will continue to hear your feedback and identify the issues. I encourage you to give us feedback during the coming months, and we will continue to deliver more and more functionality, more and more guidance to help you be successful with your application of SharePoint. Thank You for Reading/Listening