Hi Community
After building a business case for SP2013 , my next tasks to ensure I capture the business requirements across the various departments without the need to product reams of documentation ( which nobody reads anyway!}
My cunning plan (!) is to get the Home site and department template requirements documented ensuring they meet overall corporate aims that are well documented. Keep a Governance Doc running on going, to ensure I am covering my bases ( sat though John T’s suguk presentation to put the fear of god in me on that one)
I have started uploading a set of project documents into a old SP2010 site some are initial draf others I would like some advice on:
- Requirements for Home and Dept Site templates inc Wireframe modelling: Requirements analysis kit for SharePoint 2010 collaboration site templates. I haven’t done my wireframes and thinking of trying Balsamiq but would be interested in the opinions of others inc Balsamiq community support for SharePoint 2013 design: http://flucidity.azurewebsites.net/2013/02/sharepoint-2013-balsamiq-mock-up-template/
- A worksheet listing: Site columns, content type and any parent content types, views. separate sheet for the terms. Educating my users to edit this themselves with some guidance
- TODO: a template for user stories / tests …
- TODO: Scrum / Project man lite tool: Something like https://www.kanbanpad.com/ .( we haven;t the TFS visualiser before someone mentions this.)
- TODO: Support / dev tasks management probably do this in SharePoint lists / project site template as no TFS
I am trying to avoid downloading and playing with unnecessary tools, just the ones that will really help me meet my deadlines.
Daniel
Mark
That is really good – I personally prefer pictures to words. Be good to update it for 2013 such as the site email address etc but as is it’s very useful. In my case I am having to be very gentle (!) with the client and support team re some of the new architecture in 2013. for example the whole single site collection verses sites goes out of the window if there isn’t vast amount of content say in the first <2 years. I figure I can still use managed navigation and even CSWP when I prototype the base intranet and example departmental site hosted within a single site collection. I have made people aware of the implications of course.
perhaps a intra-departmental set of collaboration sites in a HNSC so http://projects. domain.com but I think that will be the exception.
Hey Daniel
Ages ago I knocked up this diagram which shows where “things” can be configured and at what level. It’s useful when deciding on strategy for Site vs Site Collections vs Web App etc…
Ta
Mark
Paul
I stood up the client’s brand new SharePoint 2013 farm on Thursday morning, using the awesome AutoSPInstaller – all looking good . I have a meeting today to sort out the Site collections verses sites and forward looking zone for my apps domain.
I like that task management App. I will give it a try and see If I can tailor it to
- apply categories to tasks – bug or requirements
- link tasks under a id so testing task may be linked a a requirement
- group tasks with a release.
Mark’s suggestion is good but want to get the users focused on only on SharePoint so they adopt it with even know they are doing it 😉
Hi Daniel,
External to SharePoint there are tools likeTrello or ScrumWise but within SharePoint you can try a simple app designed for task management (but not only) like this one: Accesa Process Management.
It works both with Office 365 and on premise too if you have the app environment ready.
Paul
Mark
Thanks. Impressive, I quickly added myself, bio, avatar, a client org and a board. The next thing I looked for is where I could hold the project docs I mention in the post #spendtomuchtimewithsharepoint . I take it you are using it in anger or have done in the post
I wonder if there will be eventually a similar SharePoint App that does the same sort of thing but optionally integrates with TFS or the new Project site template. I Know Woody (21Apps) had a scrum /TDD tool feature in which I deployed for one client.
In the meantime I will take Trello for a test drive with a real project …
