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Upcoming Webcast: Architecting a SharePoint Solution to Manage Work and Projects
Webcast Date & Time: Thursday July 17th, 9am PT, 12noon ET
SharePoint and Project Management
SharePoint is capable of handling many different business workloads. A classic example is of course a web site built on SharePoint. While this is great use of SharePoint, consider that an organization typically only has one web site, albeit with many users of course. Consider however the business workload of project and program management, where organizations have hundreds, or in some cases thousands, of projects, involving both internal and external parties. Consider also that today many of these projects are run on email, Microsoft Excel and shared network drives. Collaborative project and program management is a business workload very suited to SharePoint.
Webcast Objectives
The objectives of this webcast are:
- To outline a six-phase, generic process that will help you to architect a SharePoint solution from the ground up for customers seeking to use SharePoint to manage work processes, projects and business programs
- To examine some of the key architecture-related steps within each phase of the process in more detail, identifying what the problem or challenge is and outlining the main actions required to address the challenge
- To provide you with good practice guidelines and useful hints and tips that create a framework within which you can architect effective SharePoint solutions in a structured way
Companion White Paper
Attendees at this webcast will receive a companion white paper.
Background to this Webcast and White Paper
Back in 1999, when SharePoint 2001 was on the drawing board, the potential of the new platform was very evident to us at BrightWork. We realized, however, that, to maximize the potential of SharePoint, development teams would need some guidance on how to architect a workplace/projectplace on the web using this new SharePoint. We developed this process ourselves and have used it extensively and successfully with our customers, in the US, Europe, Canada and Australia. This webcast and white paper now presents a summary of our Workplace Architecture Guidance (WAG) process. We coined the WAG acronym in a feedback session with the Microsoft SharePoint leadership team in January 2003, while reviewing future plans for SharePoint.
