ILTA SharePoint Symposium Best Practices - Portal implementation and customization- Tom Baldwin Chief Knowledge Officer ILTA SoCal Regional Vice President
Agenda How do I get started? What SharePoint is NOT Implementation Adoption SharePoint at Reed Smith
How do I get started? Vision Don’t Go It Alone Expectation Setting Be Agile
Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, integration, project management “lite”, Outlook integration, offline docs/lists Collaboration BusinessIntelligence Portal Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking, privacy control Enterprise scalability, contextual relevance, rich people and business data search Rich and Web forms based front- ends, LOB actions, pluggable SSO Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards Business Processes Search ContentManagement Platform Services Workspaces, Mgmt, Security, Storage, Topology, Site Model Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow The infamous SharePoint ‘wheel’
What SharePoint is NOT Turnkey Easy to implement without help Something you can ‘hand to the IT guy’
Implementation Tips Stick to your vision Set the right expectations Decentralize content management Publish don’t convert Feedback after launch Promote/Adopt…
“If you build it, he will come”
They may come, but they’re not likely to come back Monitor usage at the PG, Role, Office level Do office, PG roadshows/webinars Attend firm retreats if possible Publicize new features Adoption
SharePoint at Reed Smith
Vision 1.Provide a unified, global communications platform 2.Aid lawyers in the practice of law by putting targeted resources at their fingertips
Timeline Requirements started in June ’08 RFP went out in August ’08 Vendor selected in September ‘08 Project started in October ’08 Global go live was February ‘09 8 months, were we crazy? (did I mention we threw Recommind in for good measure?)
Truman Vendors Janders Dean XMLAW Recommind WestKM Dot Net Solutions Monochrome Core Technologies MOSS XMLAW’s OneView Suite Silverlight AJAX SQL
Project Team KM Team -CKO, KM Director, (2) KM Analysts Dev Team -Dev Manager, (3) developers XMLAW -PM, Lead Tech, (2) developers 12 people listed here, WAY more FTEs to get it going..
Navigation Clean, simple interface Only one place to go for navigation Items are targeted by role, PG and office This is a LIVE demo…