What is your SharePoint Business Model: Governance basics

Recently I was doing some research on SharePoint Governance. I was browsing through some slideshare presentations and there I found this absolute gem: the SharePoint Business Model.

Ben McMann from Tribridge talks in this presentation about the SharePoint Business Model. In my view, any project ( not just SharePoint) should start with making up such a thing. This should be the basis of your governance, the start on why and how you are going to manage things.

I know I am going to do this exercise before I start a new project!

What’s Your SharePoint Business Model?

I have printed out A1 versions of the Business Model sheet and I always keep a bunch of them rolled up in a tube in the car. It is very useful when I am at a client and they want to discuss new deployments or changes in the governance structure. Awesome material!

About: Marijn

Marijn Somers (MVP) has over 14 years experience in the SharePoint world, starting out with SP2007. Over the years the focus has grown to Office 365, with a focus on collaboration and document management. He is a business consultant at Balestra and Principal Content Provider for "Mijn 365 Coach" that offers dutch employee video training. His main work tracks are around user adoption, training and coaching and governance. He is also not afraid to dig deeper in the technicalities with PowerShell, adaptive cards or custom formatting in lists and libraries. You can listen to him on the biweekly "Office 365 Distilled" podcast.


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