The topic of SharePoint Governance was THE hot topic last year and probably the year before. It seems to have gone of the boil recently, so I was wondering now that SharePoint 2013 has been out for a while now, what your governance approach is ?
Do you use a governance plan and / or do you use tooling to help out ? How do you prevent your Farms becoming unmanageable ? What’s the latest and great in SharePoint governance nowadays ?
Hello Mark
Each organization has their own way of handling the SharePoint environment so that influence their way of dealing with governance.
But the basic need of Governance remains the same for every organization. I call it as Four column of Governance
- Information Architecture
- Farm/Environment Architecture
- Branding
- Customization
So whatever be the organization just drill-down these basics we would end with a governance plan.
One more point which is hidden but it is the most important part of any implementation is USER TRAINING!!!
Well, in my case since I am an IT Pro, I will talk about my Farms governance and the eternal war with the Developers.
For me, the developers only have access to their local Development Machines and the “Development” farm. After that, only the SharePoint Admin can log on and deploy on QA, UAT and Production with the scripts provided by the Devs. This also makes sure they don’t ask to manually insert stuff on web.config or other bad practices like that.
