Presentation given at SharePoint Saturday UK in Nottingham, UK on Nov 12th, 2011. Describes the importance of metadata to social tools, and how social drives personal productivity in SharePoint.
SharePoint out of the box is a powerful platform. Unfortunately, many organizations seem to think that governance is also out of the box. It isn't. The result? Site sprawl, unfettered content, and general process lawlessness. This is a fairly common problem, and there are definitely steps you can tackle to quickly get back on track. In this session, we'll discuss several real-world strategies for gaining control over your SharePoint environments, better aligning your SharePoint efforts with organizational goals, and dramatically improving your chances of meeting end user expectations.
Cleaning Up Information Architecture in SharePoint and Other Jedi Mind TricksChristian Buckley
Presentation given at the NYC SharePoint User Group on December 7th 2011 on the importance of information architecture and governance planning in a successful SharePoint deployment or migration.
The Connection Between Metadata, Social Tools, and Personal ProductivityChristian Buckley
Showing the links between metadata and taxonomy, social, and productivity in SharePoint. Presented at the Australian and New Zealand SharePoint Conferences, and again at SPTechCon San Francisco 2013.
10 Best SharePoint Features You’ve Never Used (But Should)Christian Buckley
A walk through of the advances made in the SharePoint 2010 platform from earlier versions, as well as a list of 10 out of the box features that most end users are not using, but should. From a webinar given on 6-5-2012
SharePoint out of the box is a powerful platform. Unfortunately, many organizations seem to think that governance is also out of the box. It isn't. The result? Site sprawl, unfettered content, and general process lawlessness. This is a fairly common problem, and there are definitely steps you can tackle to quickly get back on track. In this session, we'll discuss several real-world strategies for gaining control over your SharePoint environments, better aligning your SharePoint efforts with organizational goals, and dramatically improving your chances of meeting end user expectations.
Cleaning Up Information Architecture in SharePoint and Other Jedi Mind TricksChristian Buckley
Presentation given at the NYC SharePoint User Group on December 7th 2011 on the importance of information architecture and governance planning in a successful SharePoint deployment or migration.
The Connection Between Metadata, Social Tools, and Personal ProductivityChristian Buckley
Showing the links between metadata and taxonomy, social, and productivity in SharePoint. Presented at the Australian and New Zealand SharePoint Conferences, and again at SPTechCon San Francisco 2013.
10 Best SharePoint Features You’ve Never Used (But Should)Christian Buckley
A walk through of the advances made in the SharePoint 2010 platform from earlier versions, as well as a list of 10 out of the box features that most end users are not using, but should. From a webinar given on 6-5-2012
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Presentation given in January 2013 in San Francisco at the Emerging Media Conference (EmMeCon) on the need to connect end users and their content through social tools to improve search and productivity.
Use this checklist to develop your LinkedIn profile and take advantage of its value. There are even more advanced ways to work the LinkedIn network, but this checklist will get you well on your way to becoming a power user.
Christian buckley connection-betweenmetadatasocialandpersonalproductivity_sps...BIWUG
Administrators and managers alike do not understand the importance of metadata as the underlying drivers of social computing within the enterprise, the connection between social tools and search, and how a solid taxonomy and supporting governance strategy can increase and optimize productivity. This session will outline the connections between keyword taxonomy, social tools, the end user search experience in SharePoint, and present a business case for improving productivity by focusing on all three.
Presentation given at SharePoint Saturday Toronto on July 7th, 2012. While you do lose some of the context without the narrative, hopefully you'll find some of this useful.
The session will address the different ways users can be authenticated in SharePoint: Active Directory, forms based authentication, claims based authentication, and anonymous access. I’ll discuss when to implement each method and what the best practices are for permission application and management. I’ll address when to use each method and when to implement other concepts like web application policies, extending web applications, laying out a decentralized security model.
To abide by this best practice, I’ll discuss how the farm’s taxonomy may need to be restructured. This is where administrators need to develop and enforce a governance plan around the farm’s taxonomy. Thinking about where lists, items, and groups need to be in a SharePoint farm will ensure the right eyes are seeing the right content- and nothing more.
The goal of the session is to ensure SharePoint content is secure and permissions do not get out of control. I’ll take a deep dive into what is available out of the box and what you can customize. Finally, I’ll also demonstrate how to utilize SharePoint’s auditing functionality to track who is changing permissions. The audit reports will be used to ensure the admins changing permissions are taking the correct action. When administrators know all their options around security, internal governance plans can be developed to safeguard their farm’s content.
Christian buckleymastering sharepointmigrationplanning-spsbe28BIWUG
In this session, we will walk through a five-point migration methodology that supplements existing project management processes with a more holistic view of what it takes to successfully migrate your environments. We’ll examine tactical steps, and provide guidance on this iterative approach, focusing heavily on information architecture and governance. Attendees will leave with a clear picture of the gaps within their current planning efforts, and actionable steps to get back on track.
Successful SharePoint migrations have more to do with pre-planning than the technical migration itself. This presentation outlines the success factors for planning and executing a successful migration.
An updated version of my presentation walking through and comparing apples-to-oranges social computing solutions, and what is available out-of-the-box and through partner solutions in SharePoint 2010.
How Your Metadata Strategy Impacts Everything You Do -- Taxonomy BootcampChristian Buckley
My presentation Looking Under the Hood: How Your Metadata Strategy Impacts Everything You Do from the KMworld Taxonomy Bootcamp, November 1st, 2011 in Washington DC.
10 Best SharePoint Features You’ve Never Used #SPC_ORGChristian Buckley
My presentation from the SharePointConference.ORG event held in Reston VA on May 1st, 2012, and hosted by SusQTech. Thanks to Chris Beckett (@sharepointbits) for providing some of the 2010 overview content.
Searching and Connecting – The Need to Effectively Map Content for Users #EmM...Christian Buckley
Presentation given in January 2013 in San Francisco at the Emerging Media Conference (EmMeCon) on the need to connect end users and their content through social tools to improve search and productivity.
Use this checklist to develop your LinkedIn profile and take advantage of its value. There are even more advanced ways to work the LinkedIn network, but this checklist will get you well on your way to becoming a power user.
Christian buckley connection-betweenmetadatasocialandpersonalproductivity_sps...BIWUG
Administrators and managers alike do not understand the importance of metadata as the underlying drivers of social computing within the enterprise, the connection between social tools and search, and how a solid taxonomy and supporting governance strategy can increase and optimize productivity. This session will outline the connections between keyword taxonomy, social tools, the end user search experience in SharePoint, and present a business case for improving productivity by focusing on all three.
Presentation given at SharePoint Saturday Toronto on July 7th, 2012. While you do lose some of the context without the narrative, hopefully you'll find some of this useful.
The session will address the different ways users can be authenticated in SharePoint: Active Directory, forms based authentication, claims based authentication, and anonymous access. I’ll discuss when to implement each method and what the best practices are for permission application and management. I’ll address when to use each method and when to implement other concepts like web application policies, extending web applications, laying out a decentralized security model.
To abide by this best practice, I’ll discuss how the farm’s taxonomy may need to be restructured. This is where administrators need to develop and enforce a governance plan around the farm’s taxonomy. Thinking about where lists, items, and groups need to be in a SharePoint farm will ensure the right eyes are seeing the right content- and nothing more.
The goal of the session is to ensure SharePoint content is secure and permissions do not get out of control. I’ll take a deep dive into what is available out of the box and what you can customize. Finally, I’ll also demonstrate how to utilize SharePoint’s auditing functionality to track who is changing permissions. The audit reports will be used to ensure the admins changing permissions are taking the correct action. When administrators know all their options around security, internal governance plans can be developed to safeguard their farm’s content.
Christian buckleymastering sharepointmigrationplanning-spsbe28BIWUG
In this session, we will walk through a five-point migration methodology that supplements existing project management processes with a more holistic view of what it takes to successfully migrate your environments. We’ll examine tactical steps, and provide guidance on this iterative approach, focusing heavily on information architecture and governance. Attendees will leave with a clear picture of the gaps within their current planning efforts, and actionable steps to get back on track.
Successful SharePoint migrations have more to do with pre-planning than the technical migration itself. This presentation outlines the success factors for planning and executing a successful migration.
An updated version of my presentation walking through and comparing apples-to-oranges social computing solutions, and what is available out-of-the-box and through partner solutions in SharePoint 2010.
How Your Metadata Strategy Impacts Everything You Do -- Taxonomy BootcampChristian Buckley
My presentation Looking Under the Hood: How Your Metadata Strategy Impacts Everything You Do from the KMworld Taxonomy Bootcamp, November 1st, 2011 in Washington DC.
10 Best SharePoint Features You’ve Never Used #SPC_ORGChristian Buckley
My presentation from the SharePointConference.ORG event held in Reston VA on May 1st, 2012, and hosted by SusQTech. Thanks to Chris Beckett (@sharepointbits) for providing some of the 2010 overview content.
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Understanding the Disconnect Between Collaboration Tools and Business GoalsChristian Buckley
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5 Steps for Constructing a Successful SharePoint Migration PlanChristian Buckley
Pesentaton given by SharePoint MVPs Ben Curry (Summit 7 Systems) and Christian Buckley (Axceler) on the essential components of a SharePoint migration plan.
Slide from my webinar. A walkthru of the Top 10 productivity features in SharePoint 2013. I explain why a productivity focus is important, and compelling reasons to move to SP2013.
Building and maintaining your information architecture (IA) in SharePoint is an important and ongoing operational activity.
As Microsoft Teams quickly spreads across your organization, its fast-paced deployment and ease-of-use capabilities make it a powerful hub for team collaboration, but can also mask the complexity of its underlying IA needs.
In this IntraTeam (https://intrateam.dk) webinar (held January 30, 2019), Microsoft MVP & RD Christian Buckley provided an overview of the unique IA considerations for Teams with the goal of helping viewers better understand the interdependencies and gaps to be filled as their Teams planning gets underway.
A key component of your SharePoint governance activities should be defining and, as much as possible, automating your metrics and reporting. This presentation walks through what is available out of the box in SharePoint, and areas you may consider for extending your reporting efforts.
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UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6
The Connection Between Metadata, Social, and Personal Productivity
1. The Connection Between
Metadata, Social, and Personal
Productivity
Christian Buckley
cbuck@axceler.com
@buckleyPLANET
SharePoint Saturday UK
November 12th, 2011
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2. My Background
Christian Buckley, Director of Product Evangelism at Axceler
• Most recently at Microsoft
• Microsoft Managed Services (now Office365-Dedicated)
• Advertising Operations, ad platform API program
• Prior to Microsoft, was a senior consultant, working in the software, supply
chain, and grid technology spaces focusing on collaboration
• Co-founded and sold a collaboration software company to Rational
Software. Also co-authored 3 books on software configuration management
and defect tracking for Rational and IBM
• At another startup (E2open), helped design, build, and deploy a
SharePoint-like collaboration platform (Collaboration Manager), managing
deployment teams to onboard numerous high-tech manufacturing
companies, including Hitachi, Matsushita, Seagate, Nortel, Sony, and Cisco
• I live in a small town just east of Seattle, 4 kids. Co-authoring ‘Implementing
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Real-World Projects’ (MSPress, Feb2012)
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cbuck@axceler.com 425.246.2823 @buckleyplanet http://buckleyplanet.com
3. Axceler Overview
Improving Collaboration for 16+ Years
Mission: To enable enterprises to simplify, optimize, and
secure their collaborative platforms
Delivered award-winning administration and migration
software since 1994
Over 2,000 global customers
Dramatically improve the management
of SharePoint
Innovative products that improve security, scalability,
reliability, “deployability”
Making IT more effective and efficient and lower the total
cost of ownership
Focus on solving specific SharePoint problems
(Administration & Migration)
Coach enterprises on SharePoint best practices
Give administrators the most innovative tools available
Anticipate customers’ needs
Deliver best of breed offerings
Stay in lock step with SharePoint development and market trends
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4. How productive are your
end users on SharePoint?
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5. Email Email Cell Twitter
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Blog Blog
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425.246.2823 425.246.2823 @buckleyplanet http://buckleyplanet.net
http://buckleyplanet.com
6. What are their most active sites?
What are their usage patterns?
What business problems have been
improved or solved by SharePoint?
What has been the ROI of your most
recent SharePoint deployment efforts?
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7. Many managers have a difficult time
answering these questions
Not because the platform is failing to provide
value, but because of a lack of measurements
How do you measure your success?
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8. It is easy to put a value on quantitative
improvements to
productivity
It is difficult to put a value on qualitative
Email improvements
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9. What is personal productivity?
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10. Is it simply about getting more stuff done, faster?
Personal productivity is about:
Setting meaningful and measurable objectives
Evaluating the objective into actionable items
Completing the individual actionable items
Reviewing and acknowledging your progress
(http://workawesome.com)
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11. SMART goals
S - specific, significant, stretching
M - measurable, meaningful, motivational
A - agreed upon, attainable, achievable,
acceptable, action-oriented
R - realistic, relevant, reasonable, rewarding,
results-oriented
T - time-based, timely, tangible, trackable
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12. What are you doing to make
your end users productive?
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14. Areas for initial focus
Are you optimized for search?
Have you prioritized feature and solution requests?
Have you established a cycle for continuous
improvement on what you’ve built?
Have you adopted a metadata strategy?
Have you developed a social strategy?
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15. Role of Social in SharePoint
End Users
Search
Governance
Social Media
Taxonomy Ad Hoc
Metadata
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16. What is metadata?
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17. Email Cell Twitter Blog
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18. Definitions
In Biology, taxonomy is the science dealing with the
description, identification, naming, and classification of organisms.
“however, the term is now applied in a wider, more general sense and
now may refer to a classification of things, as well as to the principles
underlying such a classification.”
“Metadata provides context for data. Metadata is used to facilitate the
understanding, characteristics, and management usage of data.
The metadata required for effective data management varies with the
type of data and context of use.”
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19. The role of metadata
• Metadata is the key to making social media
work inside the enterprise
• Most social media brands are built for the
individual (and ad revenue)
• Metadata makes social media visible,
searchable, linkable, relevant
• Metadata is the building block of social
media within SharePoint
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20. The Role of Metadata
Scott Singleton, Managed Metadata in SharePoint 2010
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21. Social tools use both
taxonomy and folksonomy
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23. • Document name • User name • Status
• File type • Department • Approval
• Author • Title • Check in / check out
• Description • Role • Version
• Page number • Project
• Retention rules
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25. • Book title • Name • Device ID
• Author • Account Number • Email
• ISBN • Credit Card • Software version
• Publisher • Social Security #
• Billing Address
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26. Metadata is the lifeblood of SharePoint
Taxonomy and metadata drive the tools and
processes that make the world go round
Metadata powers search,
it powers social media,
and it powers SharePoint
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27. Structured and Unstructured
CENTRALIZED DECENTRALIZED
Site architecture is centrally controlled Site architecture is ad-hoc
Metadata is always applied to content Metadata may not be applied to content
Site Columns and Content Types are created at Columns are created on lists
site collection root Columns are combined in an ad-hoc basis on each
Lists get “bundles” of columns list
PROS PROS
Improves consistency Requires no planning
Reduces metadata duplication Requires little upfront effort
Easy to update Works across site collections and portals
Easy to support and train on
Allows document-level DIP, Workflow, Information
CONS
Policies, and document templates Decreases consistency
Increases metadata duplication
CONS Hard to update
Requires planning Hard to support and train on
Requires upfront work Only allows list-level Workflow, Information Policies
Hard to manage across site collections and and document templates
portals Difficult to reverse
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28. Definitions
“Social media is media designed to be disseminated through social
interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing
techniques. Social media uses Internet and web-based technologies to
transform broadcast media monologues (one-to-many) into social
media dialogues (many-to-many).
It supports the democratization of knowledge and information,
transforming people from content consumers into content producers.”
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29. Why are social tools important?
They surface data, provide content
They are another layer of the search
experience
They are increasingly the common way
in which people communicate
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30. Why SharePoint Needs Social
Islands of information
You can’t find anything
You can’t tell who owns what
You can’t tell what’s new, what’s old,
or what has changed
It’s all disconnected
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31. The Social
Informatics
Shift
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32. Social Informatics is the study of information and
communication tools in cultural and institutional
contexts
It is a cross-disciplinary focus on usage patterns. It
is a blend of
sociology, anthropology, psychology, technology
and business perspectives, examining the changing
way in which we do business. (Wikipedia)
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33.
34. The Future of Social Media
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35. Email Email Cell Twitter
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36. Email Email Cell Twitter
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37. What are the social tools
within SharePoint?
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38. Social Media in SharePoint
2007 2010
Blogs Managed Metadata Service
Wikis Advanced routing (based on metadata)
My Sites User profiles (My Sites)
Team Sites Status updates/activity feeds
Discussion forums Knowledge mining
Shared calendars Bookmarks (replaces My Links)
Alerts Feedback/rating
RSS Note board (Wall)
Search Podcasting kit
Tag clouds Social tagging
Mobile accessible Expertise tagging
Presence awareness Wikis (including wiki edits of Team Sites)
Email archiving Share & Track tab
Individual and team blogs
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40. Problems in Paradise
Feature OOTB? Issue
Tag Clouds Sort of Not a true tag cloud, not tied to blog content
Star Ratings Sort of Need to heavily configure
RSS feeds Yes Need to turn them on, light configuration
Anonymous Access Yes Enabled by farm admin, decreases SP security
My Sites Integration Sort of Some actions show up in the activity stream
Comments Approval No Third-party solutions can enable this
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41. Social driving personal productivity
Activity streams adding narrative, context to content
Wikis simplifying collaboration between >2 people
Real-time connectivity bringing teams together
across the hall, around the world
Partner ecosystem closes many of the gaps
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42. NewsGator
• Aggregated newsfeed across
SharePoint sites, and using
Social Sites, feeds outside of
SharePoint
• Expanded trackable items
• Daily news digest
• Add individuals, groups, and
hashtags
• Create groups, each of which
have their own microblog,
documents, calendar, and
other capabilities
• Statistics on social activity
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43. Attini
• Provisioning process for
adding new users
• Attini Talk provides
microblogging, nested
comments, sharing, mentio
ns and badges
• Improved blog
capability, plus
• Aggregate news, and
• Aggregate video assets
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44. SnapWorkSocial
• Social within team sites,
does not create separate
page
• Microblogging
• My Site integration
• Task integration
• Aggregate feeds
• On-prem, cloud, and
Office365
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45. Strategy for improving
productivity
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46. Strategy for Improving Productivity
1. Understand your culture
2. Communicate your vision
3. Develop your use cases
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48. Strategy for Improving Productivity
1. Understand your culture
2. Communicate your vision
3. Develop your use cases
4. Define your solutions
5. Outline your taxonomy
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49. Email Cell Twitter Blog
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50. Strategy for Improving Productivity
1. Understand your culture
2. Communicate your vision
3. Develop your use cases
4. Define your solutions
5. Outline your taxonomy
6. Build your solutions
7. Implement a governance model
8. Consolidate, update, improve
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51. Predictions on the future of
productivity in SharePoint
Advances in the features we know
More “built in” capability and solutions
SharePoint becoming more or less “middleware”
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53. For more information
Contact me at
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Check out
SharePointProMag.com article How SharePoint 2010 Stacks
Up to Your End-User Social Media Requirements
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Editor's Notes
SharePoint defines the world wrapped around site collections, but that's not the reality for how company's manage SharePoint, or think about their architecture
The way that Gen Y works and plays is dramatically different from the social informatics of even 10 years ago. And the speed of change is increasing.
Once you have a clear picture of the current state of your SharePoint environment and key business processes to be managed, you’ll want to evaluate and map out your critical use cases to ensure that your future system matches the operational needs of the business. To begin, interview potential site users to find out what would help them in their jobs. Do they need a better way to automate common tasks and reporting? Organizing and tagging presentations and other marketing collateral? Finding HR information? Identify the audience for each use case, and understand the key scenarios, working with users to flesh out the various states and flow of each. Image 3. Creating use cases for the most common end user scenariosIf your organization is not familiar with visual modeling techniques, you might start by first writing a gap analysis --what is missing between what you have now in the business process and what you want to have in place? What is the primary SharePoint interface? What are the key business processes behind the interface? Are there ad hoc collaboration scenarios that interrupt the workflow? From these scenarios, you can begin to design of the future-state environment, beginning with the data model. This might include your high-level site taxonomy, with sub-sites, lists, columns (content types), relationships between lists, BDC connections, and so forth. You can also begin to design the user interface, including custom list views, data views, forms, pages, navigation, master pages, and cascading style sheets (CSS), and begin thinking about custom workflows. As you refine these use cases and initial designs, work with your end users to validate your designs through regular design reviews, and get sign-off.