Matt from Christchurch SPUG invited me to come and talk at the November SharePoint UG in Christchurch. Matt has done an awesome job promoting the use and adoption of SharePoint for the local developer community.
So I am off to Christchurch on 25th November to talk about SharePoint Planning and Governance.
SharePoint Planning and Governance
Practical steps for ensuring that you get the most out of your deployment
SharePoint just installed as a product adds little or no value. And once installed and configured it is essential for organisations to understand the planning, roles, responsibilities and ongoing review required to leverage the initial investment in SharePoint. Governance for SharePoint is applied both from a systems and process point of view by using built in tools and adopting a flexible business enabling framework. In this session Chandima will share with you essential Governance planning steps for SharePoint deployments of any size. You will learn how to avoid some of the most common mistakes of SharePoint and how to approach your overall solution architecture and deployment in a modular framework that can scale from small to enterprise.
Intended Audience: Managers, business analysts, architects, information workers, project managers, IT professionals, and developers with in an interest in planning/architecture will all gain insight from this non-technical event.
Presented by: Chandima Kulathilake, Knowledge Cue
How to get there (By Rocket Ship, By Air Plane, Car, Ship, Bicycle) depending where you are and how far you'd want to travel to see me speak. :-)
Date: Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Time: Snacks + Refreshments from 5:30PM, Talk from 6:00PM to 7:00PM
Location: Canterbury Innovation Incubator (CII), 200 Armagh Street. The CII is diagonally opposite the Centennial Leisure Centre, and parks are usually available along Armagh Street or Oxford Terrace. If the roller door at the venue is down, please enter through the small “hobbit” door within the roller door itself. Contact Matt on 027-466-4444 if you have trouble accessing the venue.
I am also planning to catch up with Michael Sampson while I am there. Michael's book "Seamless Collaboration" is available on Amazon.com. Great work Michael.