Most organizations fail to adequately plan for their SharePoint deployments -- they do not understand their business requirements, nor do they assess the risks (or full benefits) of what is being deployed. This session outlines some risk management best practices as it applies to SharePoint governance planning.

3. Christian Buckley, Director of Product Evangelism at Axceler
• Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server
• Most recently at Microsoft, part of the Microsoft Managed Services
team (now Office365-Dedicated) and then Advertising Operations
• Prior to Microsoft, was a senior consultant, working in the software,
supply chain, and grid technology spaces focusing on collaboration
• Co-founded and sold a collaboration software company to Rational
Software. At another startup (E2open), helped design, build, and
deploy a SharePoint-like collaboration platform (Collaboration
Manager), onboarding numerous high-tech manufacturing companies,
including Hitachi, Matsushita (Panasonic), and Seagate
• Co-authored „Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Creating and Implementing
Real-World Projects‟ link (MS Press, March 2012) and 3 books on
software configuration management.
• Twitter: @buckleyplanet Blog: buckleyplanet.com Email: cbuck@axceler.com

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Tackle 10 common business problems with proven
SharePoint solutions
• Set up a help desk solution to track service requests
• Build a modest project management system
• Design a scheduling system to manage resources
• Create a site to support geographically dispersed teams
• Implement a course registration system
• Build a learning center with training classes and
resources
• Design a team blog platform to review content
• Create a process to coordinate RFP responses
• Set up a FAQ system to help users find answers quickly
• Implement a cost-effective contact management system

5. Improving Collaboration since 2007
Mission: To enable enterprises to simplify, optimize, and
secure their collaborative platforms
Delivered award-winning administration and migration
software since 1994, for SharePoint since 2007
Over 2,000 global customers
Dramatically improve the management
of SharePoint
Innovative products that improve security, scalability,
reliability, “deployability”
Making IT more effective and efficient and lower the total
cost of ownership
Focus on solving specific SharePoint
problems (Administration & Migration)
Coach enterprises on SharePoint best practices
Give administrators the most innovative tools available
Anticipate customers’ needs
Deliver best of breed offerings
Stay in lock step with SharePoint development and market trends

7. Governance is about taking action to
help your organization organize,
optimize, and manage your systems
and resources.

8. never static
living breathing process
adaptable
needs of your business

9. • SharePoint out of the box is a powerful platform
• But many organizations don‟t think they have the
time, money, people to spend on planning
• The same can be said for governance
• The result?
o Site sprawl
o Unfettered content
o Process lawlessness

10. • Central to your governance implementation is
understanding and managing the risks involved
with your SharePoint environment
• Identifying, assessing, and prioritizing risks
• Measuring, monitoring, and measuring impacts
• Reviewing and modifying your governance strategy
based on changing risks and impacts
• Creating policies that secure and protect, but are also
flexible enough to meet the growing demands of your
organization to collaborate

11. Roles and
Responsibilities
Monitoring and
Principles
Maintenance
Business
Governance
Culture
Alignment
Strategy
Information
Communication
Architecture
Risk Change
Management Management

16. Transfer
Avoid
Reduce
Accept

19. proactive
anticipate

21. Prioritizing
Defining
Measuring
reactive
http://bit.ly/WIOerj

22. From Thomas Bahr and Michael Neumann‟s article “8 Ways SharePoint Helps
in Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance” (http://bit.ly/WIOerj)

24. From Thomas Bahr and Michael Neumann‟s article “8 Ways SharePoint Helps
in Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance” (http://bit.ly/WIOerj)

26. From Thomas Bahr and Michael Neumann‟s article “8 Ways SharePoint Helps
in Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance” (http://bit.ly/WIOerj)

30. Identify a governance champion
Clarify roles and responsibilities, and make sure people
know what they are signing up for
Document your governance and change management
processes
Clarify and document your information architecture, have
a detailed map of your templates, content types,
taxonomy and ownership of each
Maintain a list of current risks, make it visible
Provide a list of current and future projects / business
activities to allow open dialog of potential risks

31. visibility

34. Christian Buckley
cbuck@axceler.com
+1 425-246-2823
@buckleyPLANET
www.buckleyPLANET.com
and http://info.axceler.com
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Additional Resources available
8 Ways SharePoint Helps in Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance
http://bit.ly/WIOerj
Developing and Enforcing SharePoint Governance Policies
with Axceler ControlPoint http://bit.ly/SJVq8a
What to Look for in a SharePoint Management Tool http://bit.ly/l26ida
The Five Secrets to Controlling Your SharePoint
Environment http://bit.ly/kzdTjZ