The SharePoint Roadmap and Action Plan is the first step on the road to business results from your investment in SharePoint. It includes identifying and prioritizing key areas of business need, capabilities presentations for vision creation and definition, development of general business cases and simple ROI models, and facilitation and presentation of findings to business and technology leadership. The engagement is designed to enable alignment between organizational requirements, the individual needs of information workers carrying out the processes, company leaders managing the processes, and the technology function supporting them. The value to organizations is knowledge of the impact SharePoint and the Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure can have on the organization, an understanding and measurement of their business and technology challenges and a vision, clearly defined first steps, a roadmap of how to leverage the technology capabilities to improve the performance of their information workers and organization, and the investment requirements. The engagement includes:
- Planning Workshop
- Preparations
- Discovery discussions with key business and technology stakeholders
- Identify possible areas of business need
- Understand the IT environment and established standards (look and feel, systems, connectivity, compliance, governance, etc.)
- Selection and building of relevant workshop materials and demonstration content based on discovery findings
- Workshop
- Facilitate stakeholders to a broad vision & scope and roadmap planning for the portal
- Includes SharePoint capabilities presentations, presentation of discovery findings, relevant demonstrations, and facilitated discussions.
- Vision and Scope Workshop
- Preparation
- Development of screenshots and storyboards
- Workshop
- To facilitate stakeholders through identification of business issues, stakeholders, vision, and case for change
- Post Workshop
- Updates to PowerPoint and storyboard screen based on workshop
- Final review of conclusions and documentation
- Roadmap Planning
- Roadmap
- Project Plans
- Cost Estimates
- Deliverables
- Planning Workshop PowerPoint
- Vision and Scope PowerPoint
- SharePoint Roadmap and Action Plan Document
- Estimated Costs