Just read a great Blog Post about what seems to be a really hot topic. SharePoint Governance.
As a SharePoint BA, I find it amazing how many of the SharePoint Governance challenges and issues are caused by poor planning and lack of training. More often than not, comprehensive governance plans are actually written after the horse has well and truly bolted from the cart.
When I speak with my industry peers about a typical Failed
SharePoint project:
- 5% of the budget would be used on requirements gathering
- 90% of the budget will be used on the build
- 5 % of the budget (if you are lucky) is spent on user training.
So in short, people spend more time building something that they don’t actually know what someone wants in the first place. The result, a nice shiny SharePoint application that no-one knows who asked for and no-one knows how to use. This is the equivalent to building a formula one car and then leaving it in the garage!
SharePoint is very good at actually governing itself, if what is built, is actually wanted and needed. Plus governance is often enforced well when people know how to use it.
Too much time is spent on telling people what they can’t do, when they probably didn’t know they could do it in the first place.
The answer; More Planning and More End User Training.
