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SharePoint® Governance:
Best Practices for Managing SharePoint® Environments


Course 9573 Days

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You Will Learn How To

  • Develop a consistent management approach for a successful SharePoint environment
  • Establish a governance body and plan for your organization
  • Structure your information architecture to promote logical navigation
  • Align the roles and procedures of your governance teams to maintain continuity
  • Customize SharePoint usability to meet organizational requirements
  • Leverage SharePoint best practices to implement a comprehensive training and change management plan

Course Benefits

Without proper planning and oversight, SharePoint sites can become difficult to control and manage. It is critical to implement a process that aligns business objectives with site implementation. A governance plan establishes the balance between proper control mechanisms and the innovative use of SharePoint collaboration. The plan is a road map for deploying and maintaining the efficient use of SharePoint technologies. In this course, you develop a governance plan to maximize your organization's return on its SharePoint investment.

Who Should Attend

SharePoint administrators and site managers, including project managers, business analysts, and those responsible for the implementation of SharePoint technologies.

Workshop Course

Throughout this course, you gain practical experience developing a SharePoint governance road map. Workshops include:
  • Identifying the business need for SharePoint
  • Assessing key challenges to prevent common SharePoint deployment failures
  • Analyzing SharePoint to develop ROI metrics
  • Establishing a SharePoint content taxonomy
  • Mapping site, navigation and permission hierarchies to achieve optimal SharePoint utilization
  • Evaluating and applying postdeployment SharePoint best practices

Course 957 Content

Applying Governance to SharePoint

Defining the value of SharePoint governance

  • Identifying key factors of failed SharePoint implementations
  • Classifying varying degrees of SharePoint governance
  • Establishing essential foundations of SharePoint governance
  • Prioritizing the components of a governance plan
  • Developing the plan in stages

Examining case studies

  • Correlating corporate size to fit the governance plan
  • Analyzing the governance plan to assess potential risk
  • Identifying compliance requirements

Developing true executive sponsorship

  • Avoiding sponsorship pitfalls
  • Developing a ROI model
  • Justifying SharePoint implementations
  • Maintaining committed sponsorship

SharePoint governance planning

  • Mapping business needs to SharePoint
  • Analyzing a SharePoint governance model

Establishing Governance Hierarchies

Employing relevant information architecture

  • Determining information requirements
  • Assessing site hierarchies to satisfy business objectives
  • Structuring usage and content taxonomies
  • Utilizing mind maps to organize site taxonomies

Establishing user management policies

  • Identifying user taxonomies
  • Creating a communications plan
  • Mapping user information needs to relevant permissions

Addressing scalability

  • Evaluating the impact of scalability on your plan
  • Ensuring your plan complements the organizational footprint

Determining Roles and Responsibilities

Establishing a SharePoint governance team

  • Defining the roles within the team
  • Developing a team life cycle
  • Differentiating strategic vs. tactical team objectives

Establishing individual roles

  • Highlighting IT, SharePoint and business roles
  • Determining appropriate skillsets for your team
  • Performing a skillset gap analysis

SharePoint Operations and Usage Policies

Reviewing initial operational requirements

  • Gathering business requirements for SharePoint
  • Evaluating proper operating procedures documentation

Customizing SharePoint usability

  • Enhancing navigation
  • Optimizing Search
  • Integrating various content sources

Setting SharePoint policies

  • Establishing site provisioning standards
  • Addressing the need for change management to ensure plan continuity

Integrating multitiered support

  • Identifying the need for a multilevel support network
  • Assessing lines of communication and functions
  • Incorporating SharePoint into your IT support infrastructure

SharePoint release best practices

  • Deploying a SharePoint pilot
  • Establishing release management guidelines and processes
  • Developing SharePoint deployment procedures

Ensuring User Adoption with Communication and Training

Communicating for success

  • Selling the benefits of a governance plan
  • Building a stakeholder-focused communication plan

Stakeholder communications

  • Selecting your communication medium
  • Leveraging SharePoint collaboration tools for message delivery

Training the organization

  • Identifying different training requirements
  • Selecting from various training methods
  • Developing a comprehensive training plan

Validating SharePoint Governance Strategies

Applying a change control mechanism

  • Employing a change management process
  • Assessing the need to build a change request site to facilitate the approval process

Scheduling governance reviews

  • Assigning plan ownership to the governance
  • Reviewing the governance plan maintenance
  • Incorporating lessons learned

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Training Dates

Live online classroom training. Participate in person or in live, online events (highlighted) via Learning Tree AnyWareTM.
Feb 15 - 17Reston, VA enroll
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Nov 7 - 9Rockville, MD enroll
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Tuition

$ 2,490Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,700Premium-Pass
$ 1,833Training Passport
$ 2,213Government Discount
$ 2,240Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,250Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,267Triple-Pack

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