Don t let your SharePoint project go off the rails! Steve Rastall igroup SharePoint Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist

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1 Don t let your SharePoint project go off the rails! Steve Rastall igroup SharePoint Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist

2 SharePoint Projects Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) SharePoint Overview 2010 New Features Web Parts, Web Parts, Web Parts Workflow

3 SharePoint Projects Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) SharePoint Overview 2010 New Features Web Parts, Web Parts, Web Parts Workflow

4 Intranet / Extranet Business Intelligence WWW. The many faces of SharePoint Workflow (Manage Process) Online Forms Document Management

5 SharePoint Structure (Home) Site Collection Other sites or sub sites can be added when the intranet is redone Sites / Sub sites Customer Areas Site Collection Customer A Customer B Customer C Site Site Site

6 SharePoint Project Risks Lack of product knowledge Building bespoke when SharePoint (SP) already has the feature Building too much bespoke on the platform Customer s understanding of SP Thinking that the hard decision was choosing SP

7 General Software Project Risks Just because it s a SharePoint project does not remove the normal risks! Project planning flaws Risky areas not identified during scoping Scope Creep Employee turnover / Reliance on one consultant

8 Foundation, Server or Enterprise? Would Foundation be enough? Match requirements to version Search Services (e.g. Visio) InfoPath does it work for them? Microsoft Licensing understanding the black art!

9 Discussion & Questions?

10 SharePoint Projects Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) SharePoint Overview 2010 New Features Web Parts, Web Parts, Web Parts Workflow

11 SharePoint 2010 Overview SharePoint Lists / Libraries Web parts page anatomy of SP Made of web parts and used for custom requirements Features Overview (Enterprise) Performance point Visio Services Dashboards

12 SharePoint 2010 New Features Visio Workflow Business analysts can map out the workflows they need in Visio for a developer to import into SharePoint designer

13 Discussion & Questions?

14 SharePoint Projects Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) SharePoint Overview 2010 New Features Web Parts, Web Parts, Web Parts Workflow

15 Developing Workflow Out of the box workflows in 2010 no longer black box SharePoint designer vs. Visual Studio Avoid developing workflow in visual studio if possible Avoids black box Visio 2010 Premium or Professional SharePoint workflow templates

16 Workflow Features 3 steps or less in Foundation Unlimited steps in Server and Enterprise Can be chained together What are the potential workflows you will need?

17 Discussion & Questions?

18 SharePoint Projects Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) SharePoint Overview 2010 New Features Web Parts, Web Parts, Web Parts Workflow

19 Web parts, Web parts, Web parts Development Mistakes Deployments done without a WSP (file extension) Modifying the global assembly cache (GAC) manually Modifying the 14 hive manually Modifying the config files manually (adding references, debugger changes) Development on the production server

20 Common Mistakes seen on Health Checks Manually editing IIS settings Changing it outside SharePoint will not replicate across a farm Incorrect site architecture All under one site List with more than 2000 items Free or poor web parts that will not deploy or scale Back up the DB content Single massive 100Gb + DB s Use of folders

21 Consequences of these mistakes Strange errors reported by users that are very hard to track down Different behaviour for the same sites depending on the point of entry if running multiple web servers Time consuming to maintain and upgrade SharePoint upgrades can wipe the slate clean Overwrite changes made to the site hive schemas

22 SharePoint Projects Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) SharePoint Overview 2010 New Features Web Parts, Web Parts, Web Parts Workflow

23 Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) model for upgrades Development should involve developing for a site without the WSP installed and then one with it installed Test the WSP for both scenarios Don t just deactivate and then activate to get the new version Data loss can occur with content types that are bound to lists / libraries

24 Top 7 SP tips Take your time to match requirements to versions Balance the buy versus build question Architect out the site structures based on best practice Keep custom to a minimum Get admin training to ensure, organic super user site growth does not snowball Does far more than people think, nearly always an easier cheaper, faster way An iceberg