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Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook

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Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft SharePoint for Business Executives: Q&A Handbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Q: Should you implement in phases?


A: The answer to this question is "no". If you think you need to phase out your first project, there's a good chance that you have taken on more work than you should. Work on a project scope that can be done in about a maximum of 12 weeks with your team (more on team makeup in a minute). You should aim to develop, test, and go live in production within that timeframe, plus or minus a few weeks.

If you successfully confine yourself to a deliverable scope that fits within this timeframe, you can avoid scope sprawl, and then a traditional development process similar to waterfall is entirely appropriate. That is to say:

  • Gather, document, and obtain end user signoff on requirements

  • Implement the technical solution (but showing intermediate work to end users throughout this process)

  • Apply formal user acceptance testing (UAT)

  • Deploy to production

If for some reason, you can't confine the scope, avoid this kind of process if you can and instead follow an agile process...