Nothing More – Nothing Less…
Whilst SharePoint 2010 is more intuitive than previous versions, mainly due to emulating the Office 2010 interface, it is still a new environment that users need to get comfortable with. In many cases how we expect users to transition users across to SharePoint is not considered and typically (because it is an IT managed change) a project ends when the final team site has been created.
It goes something like this…. Continue reading ‘It is this thing called SharePoint!’
PRMA Matrix is the name given to the new SharePoint based Intranet for PRMA Consulting based in the UK. Sei-IS Business Consultancy have managed the design, build and implementation of the project as well as the efforts required to change the business to adopt the new installation which of course is still happening.
Shortly we will be adding a link to SharePoint Boutique who partnered to complete the project. They will produce a case study for the technical details of the build. This is just an overview of the project and functionality delivered. More information available from SteveDalby@sei-is.be .
All projects require a specific level of Business Change to be successful and SharePoint is no exception. In fact it could be that as SharePoint touches nearly every employee then it is a greater part of the critical project timeline.
We have found that training is the best way to ensure that the investment $, £ or € in your SharePoint project is successful. However to ensure that the message gets home ot your users we combine this with a medium amount of floor walking to visit the user at their desktop and ensure that they understand what and how SharePoint does. This ensures that the key messages are delivered in the context of the user and their way or working. Continue reading ‘Power Day Plus’
I have been training for many years and never does it fail to impress me how much people want to learn and understand about the subject being taught. Well most people… sometime my students are dragged into class by their managers and have a week of learning when all they can think about is the work sitting on their desks when they get back 
Continue reading ‘Effective SharePoint training’
I recently had to outline for a client the steps they needed to take to move from a solutions driven Information strategy to a governance driven Information strategy. The objective was to consider how this apparent low-priority set of tasks could in the longer term mean cost efficient management of company data and even today save resource time by reducing the time to find the most relevant data.
The neutralised report is attached which I will hope might assist you in fleshing out your Information Management plans. Open here Short White Paper on Information Management
First day yesterday and I did have to twitter everyone to say that Microsoft does have a winner in SharePoint 2010 although they do seem to have forgotten a few things.
Missing things tend to be small things that annoy when building sites and lists rather than large things that stops a coder delivering functionality… a typical example is the failure to provide a cascading Look-up field… which if you are not familiar would allow you to include a field in a SharePoint form that provides a drop down choice from another list within the same site. Continue reading ’100 Million Items in a list and SharePoint 2010 Conference Las Vegas.’