Summary

A governance plan must carefully balance user innovation and freedom versus manageability and support. This requires that the organization “right size” the governance plan based on resources available to participate in the governance cycle and the vision and goals for the SharePoint 2010 project. Just configuring SharePoint initially is typically not sufficient. People need to review reports, gather input from end users, and perform spot checks to ensure that the rules and regulations are being followed and that they continue to map to end-user requirements. For example, the governance plan may require that IT make all changes to lists, libraries, and sites, but then find that this is stifling effective use of the SharePoint tools ...

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