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Let Eżempji brillanti Ċomb-Mixja biex Adozzjoni SharePoint Żieda

Ewwel "pur" BrightStarr dħul blog tiegħi ġiet ippubblikata llum.  Hawn teaser:

Hemm kien hemm ħafna ta 'konversazzjoni fuq l-internets ta tard dwar is-suġġett tal-adozzjoni SharePoint u speċjalment in-nuqqas tagħhom. Ħadd ma trid tmur l-inkwiet ta 'tfassil infrastruttura tas-sigurtà razzett u, jipparteċipaw fil-workshops, tqegħid flimkien ħarsa snazzy u jħossu, xogħol barra arkitettura informazzjoni blat solidu li jistgħu jifilħu għall-inċertezzi ta 'kumpannija re-Orgs u finalment, a tnedija Fanfare mimlija biss biex jiskopru xhur wara tliet go-live li inqas minn 50% ta 'l-impjegati tal-kumpanija qed jużaw SharePoint u ħafna minnhom qed jużaw biex jissostitwixxu l-servers qodma fajl netwerk ("the S:\ drive").

Nru bullet fidda (jew blog post wieħed) se ssolvi din il-problema. Madankollu, hemm ħafna affarijiet li tista 'tagħmel biex tnaqqas ir-riskju ta' portal SharePoint anemiċi. One such technique is the "Shining Example Pattern."

I imħabba biex tkun taf dwar strateġiji oħra adozzjoni SharePoint li inti kura biex jaqsmu.  Jekk inti tagħmel sehem, jekk jogħġbok leave bħala kumment fuq il-blog BrightStarr.

Aqra l-ħaġa sħiħa hawn: http://www.brightstarr.com/US/Pages/blog-view.aspx?BlogID=52

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SharePoint fuq il-ferrovija

Illum, I kien qari permezz Mike Walsh Jgħallmu Yourself SharePoint 2007 fil 24 Sigħat u, oerhört, l-mara fuq il-post maġenb me qal, "We just implemented SharePoint in our company." It’s "incredible" because people just don’t talk to me on the train 🙂 It’s funny how SharePoint was the catalyst.

The other interesting aspect was that she didn’t realize that there were books on the product. Here comment was along the lines of "It must be pretty important if people are writing books about it." I think everyone reading my blog would agree with that.

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Tagħlim Dwar utenti finali bi www.EndUserSharePoint.com

Mark Miller fuq medda ta ' http://www.endusersharepoint.com bniet, fl-esperjenza tiegħi, the best end-user focused SharePoint site in the ‘sphere. Fl-aħħar xahar, he has enlisted some of the premier end-user focused bloggers around to contribute to the "front page" fuq bażi regolari, inklużi iżda mhux limitati għal Paul Culmsee, Chris Quick, u Dessie Lunsford. He has others lined up and ready to contribute as their schedules allow.

I qabża fuq l-opportunità li jipparteċipaw u post inawgurali tiegħi huwa hawnhekk. I’m writing a series on how to use SharePoint Designer to create first-class business workflow solutions. In keeping with the EUSP.com’s focus, dawk l-artikoli dejjem se żżomm l quddiem Utent Tmiem u center.

I personalment tendenza li jaqsam id-dinja SharePoint fi tliet gruppi wesgħin: SharePoint consultants, full-time SharePoint staff developers and end users. When I write, I spiss jistaqsu myself, liema minn dawn il-gruppi jistgħu jkunu interessati fis-suġġett? Most often, I jispiċċaw bil-miktub għall-ewwel tnejn (tekniku) gruppi, prinċipalment għaliex jien konsulent myself; it’s always easier and more authentic to write about those things with which you’re most familiar on a personal level.

Kif stajt nnotat qabel, il-komunità utent aħħari huwa ferm, far larger than the technical community. EUSP.com is top-notch and I heartily recommend it to all three groups. The site’s laser focus is obviously valuable to end users. Madankollu, we developers and consultants can only be better at our profession if we can understand and effectively respond to the needs of the end users we serve. I know I need all the help I can get 🙂 Iċċekkjaha.

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Li “Fil-Bejn” Tħossok; Osservazzjonijiet dwar SharePoint Consulting

Sfortunatament, phase one of my last project has come to a close and the client has opted to move ahead by themselves on phase two. We did our job too well, bħas-soltu 🙂 jien issa bejn il-proġetti, żmien speċjali għall-konsulenti persunal bħal myself (għall-kuntrarju indipendenti li normalment ikollu jgħixu fil-biża perpetwu ta fin-nofs żmien 🙂 ). We staff consultants fill this time in various ways: Working with sales folk to write proposals; filling in for someone or backing up a person on this or that odd job; studying; Blogging :). It’s hard to plan more than a few days in advance. At times like this, while I have a bit of time on my hands, I like to reflect.

I’m almost always sad to leave a client’s campus for the last time. We consultants form a peculiar kind of relationship with our clients, unlike your typical co-worker relationship. There’s the money angle — everyone knows the consultant’s rate is double/triple or even more than the client staff. You’re a known temporary person. As a consultant, you’re a permanent outsider with a more or less known departure date. Madankollu, you eat lunch with the client, take them out to dinner and/or for drinks, buy cookies for the team, go on coffee runs, give/receive holiday cards — all the kinds of things that co-workers do. On one hand, you’re the adult in the room. You’re an expert in the technology which puts you in a superior position. Min-naħa l-oħra, you’re a baby. On day zero, consultants don’t know the names, the places or the client’s lingo. Most times, consultants never learn it all.

When things go well, you become very well integrated with the client’s project team. They treat you like a co-worker in one sense, and confidant in another. Since we don’t have a manager-style reporting relationship with the client, the project team often feels a little free to air their dirty laundry. They let their barriers down and can put the consultant into an awkward position, never realizing they are doing it.

Consultants often don’t get to implement phase two and that never gets easy for me. I think this is especially hard with SharePoint. Phase one of of your typical SharePoint project covers setup/configuration, governance, taxonomy, basic content types, eċċ. and in many respects, amounts to a lengthy, extremely detailed discovery. That’s how I view my last project. We did all the basic stuff as well as execute some nice mini-POC’s by extending CQWP, implementing BDC connections to PeopleSoft, introduced a fairly complex workflow with SharePoint Designer, touched on basic KPI’s and more. A proper phase two would extend all of that with extensive, almost pervasive BDC, really nice workflow, fine tuned and better search, records center, excel services and probably most important, reaching out to other business units. Iżda, it’s not to be for me, and that’s sad.

Based on this recent experience, I think it’s fair to say that a proper enterprise SharePoint implementation is a one year process. It could probably legitimately run two years before reaching a point of diminishing returns. Details matter, tal-kors.

That’s the consultant’s life and all of these little complaints are even worse in a SharePoint engagement. As I’ve written before, SharePoint’s horizontal nature brings you into contact with a wide array of people and business units. When you’re working with so many people, you can see so many ways that SharePoint can help the company become more efficient, save time, do things better… but you don’t always get to do them.

I often look back to my first job out of college, before starting a consulting career 1995. We did get to do a phase two and even a phase three. Those were nice times. On the downside, madankollu, that means that that would mean a lot of routine stuff too. Managing site security. Tweaking content types. Creating views and changing views. Dealing with IE security settings. Restoring lost documents. Blech! 🙂

Despite my melancholy mood, I can’t imagine a place I’d rather be (except at a warm beach with a goodly supply of spirits).

I can’t wait to get started implemented the next enterprise SharePoint project.

(Apropos of nothing, I wrote most of this blog entry on an NJ Transit bus. I don’t think I made any friends, iżda wieħed CAN blog fuq ix-xarabank 🙂 )

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