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Delivering SharePoint Success
1. Delivering SharePoint Success:
Why Collaboration is More
Than Just Technology
Dux Raymond Sy, PMP
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2. What Does This Mean?
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3. What Does This Mean?
SharePoint
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4. Presentation Objectives
¡ In this presentation, you will learn the essential components
of successfully delivering SharePoint as an enterprise
platform
¡ In addition, you'll learn key techniques in:
¡ Gaining executive buy-in for SharePoint projects
¡ Proper planning and appropriately managing
expectations
¡ Engaging the business for better adoption
¡ Defining organizational SharePoint readiness
¡ Iterative release of SharePoint solutions
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5. Innovative-e
¡ Inspire, Lead, and Be the Catalyst of Organizational
Transformation
¡ Expertise
¡ SharePoint for Project Management
¡ Project Management for SharePoint
¡ Custom SharePoint Solutions Development
¡ Microsoft Gold Partner
¡ World Class Team
¡ Industry recognized thought leadership – published authors,
instructors, speakers
¡ Seasoned executive management
¡ PMPs, Six Sigma, SOX, ITIL, COBIT, RUP, MSCDs, MVP
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6. Dux Raymond Sy, PMP
¡ Managing Partner, Innovative-e, Inc.
¡ SharePoint Server MVP
¡ Author, “SharePoint for Project
Management” by O’Reilly Media
¡ For more information, connect with Dux
¡ E-Mail: dux.sy@innovative-e.com
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¡ LinkedIn: meetdux.com/li
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7. Agenda
¡ Can’t We Just Focus on the Technology?
¡ Raising Executive Awareness is Necessary
¡ Collaboratively Engineer a Solution
¡ Assess Organizational Readiness
¡ Iterative Release of SharePoint Solutions
¡ Questions and Answers
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9. What a Concept
“Technology provides no benefits of its own; it is the
application of technology to business opportunities that
produces ROI. ”
—Robert McDowell,
In Search of Business Value
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10. Typical Implementation Scenarios
¡ Pilot deployment for IT then magically it becomes an
enterprise production deployment
¡ No planning
¡ Everything is ad-hoc
¡ No budget earmarked
¡ Heavily customized implementation by techies lacking
SharePoint skillz
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12. Agenda
¡ Can’t We Just Focus on the Technology?
¡ Raising Executive Awareness is Necessary
¡ Collaboratively Engineer a Solution
¡ Assess Organizational Readiness
¡ Iterative Release of SharePoint Solutions
¡ Questions and Answers
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13. Executive SharePoint Ignorance is Not Bliss
¡ Isn’t SharePoint about empowering End Users?
¡ Who’s paying the bills?
¡ Execs ordered SharePoint to be deployed
¡ Do they REALLY understand the value of SharePoint to the
organization?
¡ Is the budget realistic?
¡ As the enlightened ones, it’s our responsibility to raise
executive awareness about SharePoint
¡ Read “5 Reasons Why Executive SharePoint Ignorance is
Not Bliss” http://go.meetdux.com/393b
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14. It’s All About the Benjamins
¡ Executives are primarily interested on how SharePoint can
affect an organization’s bottom line
¡ Tip: Look for existing inefficiencies, measure it and prove
how SharePoint can be a lifesaver
¡ Inefficiencies of meeting collaboration
¡ Business process automation
¡ Single platform vs multiple tools
¡ How much is the investment?
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15. Agenda
¡ Can’t We Just Focus on the Technology?
¡ Raising Executive Awareness is Necessary
¡ Collaboratively Engineer a Solution
¡ Assess Organizational Readiness
¡ Iterative Release of SharePoint Solutions
¡ Questions and Answers
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16. Are We On The Same Page?
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17. Educate and Engage the Business
¡ SharePoint is more than just a glorified network share
¡ Stress that SharePoint is a platform
¡ Tip: Address their pain points
¡ Provide high-level technology overview
¡ Discuss business challenges
¡ Map it to a SharePoint Solution
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18. Don’t Call It SharePoint!
¡ Enterprise-Wide Solutions
¡ Corporate Intranet
¡ Content Management
¡ Specific Solutions
¡ Employee Onboarding System for Human Resources
¡ Conference Room Scheduling System for Facilities
¡ Project Management Information System for PMs
¡ System Integration
¡ Custom Application Development
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19. Agenda
¡ Can’t We Just Focus on the Technology?
¡ Raising Executive Awareness is Necessary
¡ Collaboratively Engineer a Solution
¡ Assess Organizational Readiness
¡ Iterative Release of SharePoint Solutions
¡ Questions and Answers
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20. Keep Priorities In Order
¡ You can’t do it all!
¡ What business need should you solve first?
¡ What are common features that can be deployed?
¡ Project scope must be limited and specific
¡ What’s important? Time? Budget? Functionality?
¡ Tip: Involve decision makers in planning and prioritization
¡ Read “How to Prioritize Business Needs When
Implementing SharePoint” http://go.meetdux.com/sbyv
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21. Bill’s Take on SharePoint Adoption
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22. IT, Can You Handle This?
¡ Implementation
¡ Do you have the relevant skillsets to plan, engage with the
business, deploy SharePoint?
¡ Are key processes for release management, disaster recovery,
auditing in place?
¡ Support and Maintenance
¡ What does the support structure
look like?
¡ Resources available for maintaining
related technologies?
¡ Future Releases
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23. Change Management Strategy
¡ Collaboration culture
¡ Governance plan
¡ Business
¡ Technology
¡ Adoption plan
¡ Training
¡ Process
¡ Technology
¡ Self-help
¡ Feedback
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24. Agenda
¡ Can’t We Just Focus on the Technology?
¡ Raising Executive Awareness is Necessary
¡ Assess Organizational Readiness
¡ Educate and Collaboratively Engineer a Solution
¡ Iterative Release of SharePoint Solutions
¡ Questions and Answers
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25. Do You Have a SharePoint Roadmap?
¡ A SharePoint roadmap can help organizations
¡ Quantify the budget, resources and effectiveness of
SharePoint
¡ Allows priorities to be set
¡ Specifies what solutions are going to be deployed
¡ Iterative releases can provide immediate visibility
¡ Lower risk compared to big bang approach
¡ Tip: Successful delivery of high profile solution gets you
brownie points
¡ Quick wins are essential for better buy-in and adoption
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26. Reality Check
¡ What’s the biggest bang for your buck?
¡ Feel free to download this SharePoint Assessment
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27. Example Release Schedule
¡ Phase 1: Proof of concept or Pilot
¡ Phase 2: Replace intranet and file shares to improve
collaboration
¡ Phase 3: Deploy value point solutions for HR,
Operations and Finance
¡ Phase 4: Train users to build their own SharePoint
solutions
¡ Phase 5: Integrate CRM and third party reporting
platform
¡ See how EasyJet did it: http://bit.ly/74XwKH
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29. Agenda
¡ Can’t We Just Focus on the Technology?
¡ Raising Executive Awareness is Necessary
¡ Assess Organizational Readiness
¡ Educate and Collaboratively Engineer a Solution
¡ Iterative Release of SharePoint Solutions
¡ Questions and Answers
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30. Questions?
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