Datasheet

 Decide how users will access SharePoint with which kinds of clients.
 Decide how to filter content so users see views that are personalized to
their needs.
 Determine who gets access to what and who has responsibility for the
various tasks required to maintain SharePoint.
 Determine who’s responsible for creating new sites as well as adding
new users and maintaining them.
 Decide how users are authenticated to SharePoint.
 Determine how SharePoint provides people information such as names
and contact information.
 Decide who creates and maintains content structures, such as lists
libraries.
 Identify content and its organization.
 Decide who administers all this stuff and keeps it up and running.
A vital piece to your success in this planning stage requires that you provide
adequate training and support. This doesn’t mean just to end users or just to
technical people. Both groups need training and support. Technical people
need to understand how to set up, configure, and administer SharePoint.
When it comes to the day-to-day use, you have to decide whether the help
desk is responsible for providing this support.
Planning for applications
Planning on using SharePoint to solve a specific business problem is the icing
on the cake. The planning process for specific applications depends on how
you plan to use SharePoint in your organization. Regardless of how you plan
to use SharePoint in your business, here are some common planning steps:
1. Identify the project’s goals.
2. Identify the SharePoint features that are relevant to achieving your
project’s goals.
3. Identify the configuration information you need to set up SharePoint.
4. Identify the skills required to implement the features and address any
skill gaps.
5. Create a development process for creating SharePoint applications.
In most cases, implementing an application in SharePoint requires some
kind of development or design work. You need to identify the tools that
are required to complete the task — most often you use SharePoint
Designer 2007, InfoPath 2007, and Visual Studio 2005. Make sure you
have the skills or the outsourcing capabilities.
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