Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices

The Envisioning Stage

In the envisioning stage, there are several steps that highlight some best practices. The first step we want to comment on is to evaluate corporate objectives for SharePoint Server 2007 (corporate knowledge sharing). We believe that this step cannot be fulfilled until you have technology-agnostic business requirements and technical requirements that have been discussed and agreed upon by both the technology team and the business stakeholders. Once you have the project charter (discussed in Chapter 4) finalized, then you can start to map the corporate objectives to the features found in SharePoint Server 2007. A best practice is to always define what a successful outcome will be in your project charter, as well as the metrics ...