Really interested to see how you manage your SharePoint projects on site…
- Do you use Scrum or traditional waterfall, something else ?
- How is your team built up ? Do you have a dedicated Project Managers and BA’s ?
- Who trains your users and how ?
- Do you purchase software or build it yourselves ?
Can you state your country as well, be great to see what techniques each country use!
The whole world is agile now and we decided to stick with agile too. SharePoint is more dynamic so being agile gives us better output for now.
Thanks Ken.
Got to ask … what’s “service-now” ? Are your Business Analysts SharePoint trained and if so, how do they sell SharePoint to the business ?
Today at WWT, we use Scrum facilitated through Service-Now. While Service-Now is more ITIL and not Agile, they’ve enhanced the features and functionality to provide some pretty decent Agile recording. There is still a heavy ITIL influence, and sometimes you feel like you’re filling out 2hrs of documentation for a 5min solution deployment.
Team makeup is of the following: Management: 1 Senior Manager, 1 PM, 1 Team Manager for User Requests. There are 3 Analysts, 1 “Middle-Tier” (SPD, HTML, CSS), and myself (Architect, Dev, many-hat-wearer). They are looking to on-board more analysts, developers, etc. However that is what we have currently.
We have had internal training seminars, as our SharePoint environment is heavily social using NewsGator, a custom skin around the social aspects of NG, and Nintex driving workflows and forms. So we’ve been able to provide users with an experience which is further removed from SharePoint and closer to community social driven web applications.
We have built very little ourselves, as we haven’t had the developers on staff. We have hired out the skin design, purchased NewsGator, and Nintex. We have projects however coming soon where we will need custom development.
