How to Kill Innovation in
SharePoint in 5 Easy Steps CHRISTIAN BUCKLEY CHIEF EVANGELIST @METALOGIX

Christian Buckley Chief Evangelist &
SharePoint MVP Metalogix cbuck@metalogix.com www.buckleyplanet.com @buckleyplanet

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How to Kill Innovation in
SharePoint in 5 Easy Steps  What I’ll cover today: • How to break the spirit of your end users • How to expand the process lawlessness • How to ensure nobody can ever find their content ever again • Which key trends and best practices to completely and utterly ignore

Do you recognize these business
problems? • Adoption issues • Weak usage of taxonomy and templates • Poor collaboration • Slow to realize benefits of SharePoint investments

Awesome!
The plan is
working.

If total failure is your
goal, then please proceed.

5 industry-tested techniques for ending
any chance that SharePoint will ever be successful

1. Skip the information architecture.

Of course, if you skip
the information architecture…  You won’t understanding how the platform works  You won’t know how sites should be structured  You will not be familiar with the many templates, content types, taxonomy, and navigation  You won’t be able to help your users take advantage of the rich features within  You will struggle to accomplish the basic tasks  Search will just flat out suck

2. Deploy it, and walk
away.

The problem with just deploying
SharePoint and walking away…  The system will not actually meet the requirements of your users  As your users get more sophisticated on the platform, the platform will not grow with them  End users will quickly outgrow a static platform, and move onto other tools – which will most likely be unsecure, unsupported, and you’ll eventually be tasked with cleaning it up

3. Don't plan for governance

Ignoring governance sounds great, but
then…  There will be no early detection for long-term problems  You’ll have no visibility into how the system is being used  Teams will have differing standards, if they follow standards at all  Collaboration will break down into old team and divisional siloes, and the system will lose its inherent value

4. Refuse to recognize the
power of social computing

Of course, if you think
social is just a passing fad…  Then you’ll miss out on another layer of the search experience  You won’t be able to put content and ideas (and innovation) in context to the running dialog within your organization  You will severely limit your ability to find content and ideas outside of the exact search terms you input  You’ll find it more difficult to find the right people and expertise  Your end users will increasingly disengage

5. Don't have a user
adoption strategy.

If you don’t have a
plan for getting your users to saddle up…  They won’t use it  You’ll spend a bunch of money on a very expensive file share (regardless of whether its on premises or in the cloud)  They’ll go find something else – and you can bet that it’ll be outside of your control

But
seriously…

Just remember…. • SharePoint is
a journey, not a race • You're not going to get everything right all the time • Listen to your users • Be authentic about what you know, what you have permissions (and budget) to do for your end users • Reach out to the expert community for advice and best practices

Thank you!
cbuck@metalogix.com
www.buckleyplanet.com
@buckleyplanet