A successful external SharePoint project
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2025 3:16 am
Tools
The easiest change is at this level. When setting up SharePoint, you can think about getting the profile information from LinkedIn. This way, your employees don't have to fill in their profiles all the time.
Process
You need to give people the confidence that they are doing the right thing. For example, you can automatically generate good team sites when creating a new project.
Training
There are always people in the organization with the new gadgets. Make sure you involve them in new updates or releases, by giving them a login before others can get to it. These are the people who can train your employees later.
Motivation
This involves two types: extrinsic and intrinsic. Extrinsic, for example, involves obtaining badges. In SharePoint 2013, there is a point system with which you can obtain badges. Incidentally, a badge must have meaning; obtaining a badge should not become a goal in itself! Intrinsic motivation involves achieving personal goals.
Culture
This is the highest level of change. For example, you could give every employee publishing rights on the intranet, this gives a sense of trust. This only works if management is also actively involved.
Symon GarfieldIn the breakout session of Symon, the keynote speaker from earlier in the morning, he showed the same slides as during the keynote session. This time, however, there was much more room for questions, discussion and depth. Symon again walked us through his reasons why his SharePoint projects fail. His reasons hardly deviate from existing lists, such as the well-known list of The Standish Group. What Symon emphasized even more compared to this morning was that the adoption of SharePoint brazil telegram data must be part of your project plan. You have several techniques to ensure this:
Awareness
Communicate to your users that there is a problem with the current situation. There is a problem, so a change needs to be made. Involve your internal communications department in this!
Availability
Make sure the first impression is really good. If the first impression is bad, it is difficult to get people back into a positive mindset. For example, you can provide a first step-by-step plan that people follow (for example, creating a team site) and that they think after 15 minutes “hey, that's cool!”. You can also clear the environment every day, so that people can 'play' in the environment without any limits and don't have to worry about breaking anything.
Usage
Make sure you have a good manual, good frequently asked questions and don't forget: make sure the helpdesk is well instructed. You can also work with training videos.
The easiest change is at this level. When setting up SharePoint, you can think about getting the profile information from LinkedIn. This way, your employees don't have to fill in their profiles all the time.
Process
You need to give people the confidence that they are doing the right thing. For example, you can automatically generate good team sites when creating a new project.
Training
There are always people in the organization with the new gadgets. Make sure you involve them in new updates or releases, by giving them a login before others can get to it. These are the people who can train your employees later.
Motivation
This involves two types: extrinsic and intrinsic. Extrinsic, for example, involves obtaining badges. In SharePoint 2013, there is a point system with which you can obtain badges. Incidentally, a badge must have meaning; obtaining a badge should not become a goal in itself! Intrinsic motivation involves achieving personal goals.
Culture
This is the highest level of change. For example, you could give every employee publishing rights on the intranet, this gives a sense of trust. This only works if management is also actively involved.
Symon GarfieldIn the breakout session of Symon, the keynote speaker from earlier in the morning, he showed the same slides as during the keynote session. This time, however, there was much more room for questions, discussion and depth. Symon again walked us through his reasons why his SharePoint projects fail. His reasons hardly deviate from existing lists, such as the well-known list of The Standish Group. What Symon emphasized even more compared to this morning was that the adoption of SharePoint brazil telegram data must be part of your project plan. You have several techniques to ensure this:
Awareness
Communicate to your users that there is a problem with the current situation. There is a problem, so a change needs to be made. Involve your internal communications department in this!
Availability
Make sure the first impression is really good. If the first impression is bad, it is difficult to get people back into a positive mindset. For example, you can provide a first step-by-step plan that people follow (for example, creating a team site) and that they think after 15 minutes “hey, that's cool!”. You can also clear the environment every day, so that people can 'play' in the environment without any limits and don't have to worry about breaking anything.
Usage
Make sure you have a good manual, good frequently asked questions and don't forget: make sure the helpdesk is well instructed. You can also work with training videos.