I was lucky to attend and present at last week’s SharePoint Best Practices conference. I’m still new to the whole speaking "thing" మరియు, స్పష్టముగా, I was a bit nervous for the first half while I sweated out waiting to speak myself. That sort of nervous feeling made it a little hard for me to pay attention to the presenters (నేను వాటిని నిర్లక్ష్యం కాదు). అందుకు బదులుగా, నేను హాజరైన ఒక బిట్ మరింత దృష్టి.

Conferences always set my mind racing and there was a lot take in at this one. This conference was excellent. I think it was unusual in several ways. It wasn’t a heavy developer conference. There were certainly dev parts to it, కానీ నేను కనీసం భావించాను 60% కాని dev అంశముల, maybe as high as 80%. I think that speaks to the evolving nature of the SharePoint market. Companies are implementing SharePoint in a variety of ways and they are looking for guidance on how to do it right. And not just guidance on how to create features/solutions (ఇది ప్రస్తుతం, చాలా బాగా ఏర్పాటు చెయ్యబడింది).

I believe the conference was tremendously valuable to most everyone that attended and I know that the organizers plan to do the conference again early next year.

అన్నారు చిగురిస్తుంది, I believe there was a missed opportunity which I hope the next conference addresses. I say it’s a missed opportunity, but that’s not a bad thing. Discovering a community need is in and of itself a good thing. The conference discussed a number of best practices in a variety of areas such as governance, శిక్షణ, అవసరాలు సేకరణ, అన్వేషణ, అభివృద్ధి, సమాచారం నిర్మాణం, మొదలైనవి. I think that the missed opportunity has to do with the "green field" అంచనాలు మూలమైన ఉత్తమ పెక్కు.

మేము గ్రీన్ ఫీల్డ్ గురించి మాట్లాడేటప్పుడు, we mean that SharePoint hasn’t gone into production and we’re starting with a clean slate. This is ideal because you can start straight away using best practices for defining and managing governance, సమాచారం నిర్మాణం, మొదలైనవి. అయితే … మీరు ఏమి వేలాది వాడుకదారులు ఉత్పత్తి ఇప్పటికే జరుగుతుంది (or 10’s of thousands) మరియు మీరు ప్రారంభంలో ఉత్తమ పాటిస్తారు లేదు? I’ve seen companies with … హాహా … చాలా వింతైన information architecture baked into their environment. I don’t think that this conference provided much guidance for organizations with that kind of problem (మరియు నేను IA అర్థం లేదు, కానీ పరిపాలన, అన్వేషణ, అనేక ఇతర ప్రాంతాలు). కోర్సు యొక్క, మీరు ఒక సమస్య తెలుసుకోవడం పరిష్కారం యొక్క ఒక పెద్ద భాగం మరియు ఆ చాలా విలువైన వార్తలు.

I think that the online SharePoint community hasn’t done much to address this either. I know I have not. It’s a very hard problem to solve at many levels. Technically it’s hard. Budget-wise it’s hard. Culturally, it’s hard. అయితే, it’s probably a bigger real world problem than most. Since the conference ended, I’ve been thinking about these kinds of problems and how one would solve them. There has to be a better answer than, "uninstall and reinstall" మరియు కమ్యూనిటీ పై తల ఎదుర్కొనేందుకు అవసరం.

I think that this a great opportunity for the blogging community and experienced thought leaders to lay out some guidance on how to repair their environments. I think there’s a small but non-zero risk that SharePoint could end up with a bad and enduring reputation as a result of poorly architected implementations that fail due to poor governance, IA, మొదలైనవి.

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