Mark Schneider's focus is on on how to guide your organization through reasonable change.
Mark spoke to change in an organization as a skill. Mark stated that, "Share point is an agent of change." The point is that governance makes change more managable. Overall, an organization need to be forthcoming and open. It is the empowerment of people." With that in mind, we have to provide guidance for that change.
You need. 5 things to properly manage change.
1. Support of A champion
2. Grassroot support
3. Approved and funded budget
4. Clear objective and goals
5. Control over the project
Most importantly, Mark expressed that an organization should ensure that people are trained. Mark encourages an organization to communicate leveraging the SharePoint technologies -Blogs - and provide an example by leveraging a Team Site template. That is, project managers should lead by example.
Best practices in a nutshell is to work to ensure that people don't result to using their imaginations to fill communication gaps. The psychological effect of ,an unmanaged, SharePoint implementation in an organization prompts negative responses at time. That is, you need to balance your approach for changing both technologies and processes. Overall , you want to avoid a chaotic impact. The fact that people naturally respond negatively to unplanned change encourages governance.
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Corro'll Driskell