by Craig Roth | October 24, 2012 | Comments Off
Is your office’s fantasy football league posted on your intranet? The answer to that question can sometimes provide insight into where a company is on the governance continuum. I start out SharePoint governance discussions with clients by asking questions that determine the organization’s place on the governance continuum (from “Wild West” decentralized to “iron-fisted” centralized). [...]
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by Craig Roth | May 7, 2012 | Comments Off
How is SharePoint governance like a snowflake? Is it that it’s backbreaking labor to shovel it up if you wait too long? That it tends to fall from the heavens and hit you cold in the face? Well, yes, but I was thinking more poetically: SharePoint governance is like a snowflake in that no two [...]
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by Craig Roth | April 13, 2012 | Comments Off
“Maybe you shouldn’t do SharePoint governance. Telling people what to do reduces responsiveness and they’ll just use email to work around restrictions. Encourage ‘culture’ (self-governance), not ‘structure’.” I’m paraphrasing a bit, but this is an argument I was recently presented with after speaking on SharePoint governance. I have a few points in rebuttal. First, total [...]
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by Craig Roth | February 17, 2012 | Comments Off
With all due respect to William Ury and his negotiating strategy book “Getting to Yes,” the difficulty faced by owners of governance projects in organizations not used to governance is how to get to the point that saying “no” is feasible and actually works. After all, you don’t need to do anything with governance if [...]
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by Craig Roth | January 25, 2012 | Comments Off
Adoption, adoption, adoption. Sometimes it seems like that’s all anyone wants to hear about when it comes to collaborative technologies such as social networking, SharePoint, Jive, or intranets. I’m on record as being a bit of a curmudgeon about adoption since I’ve seen it abused so frequently (particularly in the SharePoint space) by IT folks [...]
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by Craig Roth | January 18, 2011 | Comments Off
Thelonious Monk’s "’Round Midnight" is to Jazz what governance presentations are to SharePoint: a standard. Every aspiring SharePoint speaker is expected to be able to play it on demand, and wants to add their personal styling to the tune. And the fact that it’s so popular makes it a standard to be judged by. A [...]
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by Craig Roth | June 30, 2010 | Comments Off
In my presentations on SharePoint governance I often describe the need to define a decision making framework, guided by fundamental principles, that then launches committees to meet on an ongoing basis to flesh them out. For example, it doesn’t include site design standards. Instead, it describes why site design standards are important, who will be [...]
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by Craig Roth | June 9, 2010 | Comments Off
When documents are viewed on our website, there is a link that allows the reader to send feedback directly to the author of the report. I like it when people click this link since it helps give me a view into how my research is perceived by the reader and it has helped to shape [...]
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by Craig Roth | June 4, 2010 | Comments Off
I’m happy to announce that my “Website Governance: Guidance for Portals, SharePoint, and Intranets” has just been published. It’s an update to my Methodologies and Best Practices document on governance which is the most popular document that I’ve written for Burton Group (out of 17), even though only came out in March of 2009 and [...]
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by Craig Roth | May 24, 2010 | Comments Off
Ah, it’s May – the time of year when Microsoft releases SharePoint 2010 and thoughts of adoption are in the air. A perfect time to revisit my Countervailing Wisdom for SharePoint. Here are 8 bits of wisdom you won’t hear in your SharePoint User’s Group meeting. These thoughts came to me while writing my guidance [...]
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