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SharePoint Architect's Planning Guide

By : Patrick Tucker
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SharePoint Architect's Planning Guide

By: Patrick Tucker

Overview of this book

After opening a toolbox full of tools, it can initially be hard to know which is the right one for the job – which tool works best and when. Showing you how to create an informed and purposeful plan for SharePoint Online in the context of the Microsoft 365 suite of tools is what this book is all about. SharePoint Architect's Planning Guide will help you understand all you can do with SharePoint. Whether the tools are new to you or you’ve used the older versions in the past, your journey will start by learning about the building blocks. This book is not a step-by-step guide; there are tons of online resources to give you that and to help you better keep up with the pace of change. This book is a planning guide, helping you with the context, capabilities, and considerations for implementing SharePoint Online in the most successful way possible. Whether you need to plan a new intranet, migrate files to a modern platform, or take advantage of tools such as Power Platform, Teams, and Planner, this guide will help you get to grips with the technology, ask the right questions to build your plan, and successfully implement it from the technical and user adoption perspectives. By the end of this Microsoft book, you’ll be able to perceive the toolbox as a whole and efficiently prepare a planning and governance document for use in your organization.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1:From Farm to Cloud
5
Part 2:From Lone Wolf to Pack Leader – SPO Integrations with M365
9
Part 3:From Tall to Flat – SPO Information Architecture
13
Part 4:From Current to Change

Summary and planning document

In this chapter, we’ve explored aspects of a SharePoint Online deployment that focuses less on technical configuration and development and more on the other factors that lead to successful adoption. Managing the change purposefully and making sure that people understand the value and usage of our tools is a great return on our investment.

Here are some questions to ask as we add adoption and change management to our planning document:

  • Does the organization have personnel trained in change management?
  • What opportunities exist to train the organization on the adoption of best practices and the ADKAR model?
  • Is there a defined set of technical change champions? If not, can a message be crafted and sent from management to recruit them?
  • Are the pain points and business values clearly defined for the SharePoint Online solution we are planning?
  • Does the organization have internal training resources?
  • Have people been identified...