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• 25 Years in Enterprise IT• 10 Years SharePoint Specialist• Author, Trainer, Developer,

Designer• Entrepreneur, Information

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About Chris Beckett

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“SharePoint is a mirror, it reflects back every dysfunction in your organization”

– Chris Beckett

We want to deploy SharePoint to help us COLLABORATE and COMMUNICATE more effectively

Most SharePoint projects FAIL because PEOPLE fail to collaborate and communicate effectively

CHANGE is always HARD

http://info.aiim.org/sharepoint

Biggest Barriers to Success

• Lack of management support• Lack of planning• Inadequate user training• User resistance• Lack of investment and expertise

Don’t just take my word for it…

SharePoint is like a Sailboat…

The REAL problem with SharePoint…

“SharePoint is a mirror, it reflects back every dysfunction in your organization”

– Chris Beckett

Is IT a partner or

a service

provider?

Is SharePoint a platform or an application? Both?

We can’t pay for that, this is coming out of IT’s budget!

We need to be customer driven! Ok, where are they?

Whose SharePoint is it anyway?

How long it will take,

and how much it will

cost?

We will let the business tell us how they want to use it!

This project needs to be completed by X!

Doesn’t search just come included in SharePoint?

SharePoint isn’t a Project!

LARGE projects

have HIGH failure

ratesYou can’t estimate what you don’t know!

Nobody is prepared – give people a chance to learn

Success is a magnet that attracts more success

Small Steps to Success

We *only* need records management?

Why can’t I just assign Taxonomy to someone in IT?

We need ECM, but don’t talk to anyone outside of IT!

We don’t want to discuss all that other stuff. We just need to build an Intranet.

Love and Marriage

We don’t need training.

Make the system simple

to use!

SharePoint Strategy Reality

The GREAT DEBATE is OVER!!!!

BUILD YOUR WORKFLOW OUTSIDE SHAREPOINT

SharePoint +

Service Bus =

manageable!!

!Don’t Customize! Do Integrate!

Composed

Looks is as far

as you should

go!

The real history of success with SharePoint was Team Collaboration and lightweight

Document ManagementIs SharePoint an Enterprise Platform anymore at all?

Microsoft went to the cloud… and lost the *Enterprise* baggage…

Is there a SharePoint ECM Future?

Know your Limits!

People Need to Talk

Develop a PRAGMATIC STRATEGY!!!

Dialogue Mapping … Might Work

Stick a Fork in Me – I’m Done

The Trouble isn’t SharePoint