Everyone has seen the movie Field of Dream where a farmer sacrifices part of his cash crops to builds baseball field. It just so happens after he built it numerous famous baseball players come back from the beyond to play baseball and people come from all around the world to watch and in turn the farmer became rich for charging admission, food, beverages, etc.
SharePoint 2013 and building user adoption share a lot of the same concepts and overall goals to ultimately come out with the same end result. Lots and lots of people from all around the company start utilizing SharePoint and all its features and functionality. In this session you will see first-hand information from a company that I have been working with since they had 2007, 2010 and now 2013. I will review the project and all the steps taken to increase user adoption.
• Discovery Sessions
• Governance
• Build & Implementation
• Migration
• Next Steps
To prove the success of the overall project I will show various statistics from the previous versions and SharePoint 2013. We will also take a look at some additional successes that have come from this upgrade and increase in user adoption.
5. Fun Facts
Yankee Stadium – 1.5B
Great American Ballpark – 290M
Citi Field – 900M
Nationals Park – 611M
Chase Field – 354M
Marlins Park – 550M
Safeco Field – 518M
PNC Park – 216M
Turner Field – 209M
Oakland Coliseum – 25.5M
Angel Stadium – 24M
Dodger Stadium – 23M
Fenway Park – 650K
Wrigley Field – 250K
SharePoint Environment Build Ranges:
12,000 – 150,000
6. Agenda
• The History
• Where Did We Start?
• Project Kick-off?
• Discovery
• Recommend & Build
• More Statistics
• Following Up
• Initiatives
7. Where Did We Start?
• Initial Meeting
– Introductions
– Review Scope of Project
– Learn Company Culture
– Learn How They Communicate
– Provide Governance Template
– Agreement to “Step out of your comfort zone”!
8. Where Did We Start?
Central
Admin,
App &
WFE
SQL
Very lower user
adoption &
understanding
of SharePoint
10. Project Kick-Off
• Identify & Approve Timelines
• Review Process for Discovery Sessions
– Who to Invite
– Types of Questions
– Ensuring Interaction
– The Promises!!
– Follow-Ups
• Tour the Company
• Formal Communication Plan
• Executive Sponsor MeetingInvolvement
• Getting to know the company & business
11. Project Team
• Identify Team & Roles
– Executive Sponsor
– Project Manager
– IT Support
– Site Owners
– Consulting Team
Get to know and bond
with team members.
Learn their strengths &
weaknesses…
12. Discovery
• Getting Honest Responses
• Provide leading questions…
• When they state “I wish it could do x” let them
know it can. If time at end of day I’ll show you.
• Discuss Full Project Involvement
• Executive Sponsor – Step In show support
• Communication
• SDPS Assessment
14. Discoveries
Nobody Trusts The Data Duplication of All Major Processes
Duplication of Data
No Standardizations (Browsers, etc.)
No SLA’s of any kind
Really only use the site for forms…
Graphic Request – Not a true request
No Formal Training
No Governance
No Understanding of AutomationForms
Don’t Trust Reporting
Location inability to utilize tools
Aware there are better ways…
Communication seemed to be a bad word
Contributor Permissions to All Sites
Nobody Aware of Permission Issues
21. “The historical sense involves a perception, not
only of the pastness of the past, but of its
presence”
― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
“Disregard for the past will never do us any
good. Without it we cannot know truly who we
are.”
― Syd Moore
Quotes
Keeping Us Moving Forward
24. New Architecture
Role Descriptions
Web Front End Servers
Hosts web pages, web services and web parts
necessary to process requests served by the farm
Office Web Apps Server
A separate server product that can serve
SharePoint farms for viewing and editing, and can
provide preview functionality in search results
Service Application Server
Provides the service features of SharePoint such
as Central Administration, Search, User Profiles &
Managed Metadata
SQL 2012 Database Servers
Stores content and service data. Databases can be
clustered or mirrored for failover protection
Service
Application
Server,
Central Admin
SQL 2012 Database Server
Web Front End Server
Office
Web Apps
Workflow Server
29. The Source
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37. Never Forget to Follow-Up
• Training
• Developers, End Users & Site Administrators
• Governance
• Phase 2 (Backlog)
• Communication
• Responsibilities & Roles
• Provide Tools
38. Now What?
Automation is a Directive Internet Site Convertion to SharePoint
Technology Standardization Selling Product Online!!
Governance All Locations are Equal
Going Mobile Additional Environments
39. Feedback
• Training Still Needed
• Accessing & Getting too Information much easier.
• Navigation
• Has Elevated Communication
• Has Elevated Performance
• Excited about Automation
• IT & Strategic Planning are more plugged into the Organization
& our needs
• Critical Date Calendar has really drawn departments closer
together.
42. The details can be found through the EventBoard Mobile app – http://app.spsdc.org -> SPSDC
Session Info
43. Only have a web browser?
http://lanyrd.com/2015/spsdc/
Lanyrd
44. Join us at #SharePint sponsored by K2 at Clyde’s of Chevy
Chase in the RaceCar Bar Downstairs
Why? To network with fellow SharePoint professionals
What? SharePint!!!
When? 6:00 PM
Where?
RaceCar Bar Downstairs
5441 Wisconsin Ave
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
Thanks to?
K2!