Well, I lasted 10 days sticking to the plan (double figures at least), and I think I've now comfortably formed a habit (it's only supposed to take 7 days after all) . But inevitably, I was going to have to cheat one day - and not only is today Friday, but it's a public holiday here in Christchurch, and I'm also sleepy. So today's 11th in the series of one-blog-per-day-before-Christmas is a total cop-out: a re-post of my SharePoint User Group announcement from the SPUG website!
Here's the details of this month's cracker event - our last of the year. I always look forward to Chan's talks, and it's great we can finally get him down to Christchurch.
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
Chandima is an Enterprise Solutions Consultant and a Microsoft Certified SharePoint expert based in Wellington, New Zealand. He has been working with SharePoint technologies since 2001 and has over twelve years of experience in the IT industry. He specialises in providing Architecture and deployment guidance for SharePoint projects. He is also the founder and director of Knowledge Cue Ltd, a company that specialises in Consulting and Training for SharePoint.
He is a speaker at International and local Microsoft conferences on architecture, deployment and governance best practices for SharePoint. He has been awarded with Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in 2007 and 2008 for his contributions to the worldwide SharePoint community and also coordinates the local Wellington SharePoint User Group events. He is also the New Zealand regional lead for International SharePoint Professionals Association.
Chandima Blogs at: http://www.chandima.net/Blog/
Date: Tuesday, 25 November 2008
Time: Snacks + Refreshments from 5:30PM, Talk from 6:00PM to 7:00PM
Registration: To assist with our catering arrangements, please register for this event indicating your attendance, or the total number of attendees if bringing others.
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.