SharePoint Tips and Tricks, Best Practices and Recommendations

Starting SharePoint solution and planning your documentation

When a new SharePoint project is about to start I use the following steps to design and plan solution

  1. Creating Vision/Scope
  2. Site structure and Navigation
  3. Use Case Scenarios
  4. Data Flow scenario
  5. Content location
  6. Site Collection Boundaries
  7. List of required features and site definitions
  8. Security: Roles and Permissions
  9. Page Wireframes: layouts and content types
  10. Targeting
  11. Search strategy (scopes, authoritative, best bets)
  12. Infrastructure Plan 
  13. Disaster Recovery
  14. Deployment plan

    Take into account that SharePoint SDLC differs from standard development, and not all projects require those steps.

    Mirror: Starting SharePoint solution and planning your documentation

    Posted: Sun, Sep 28 2008 5:57 by Michael | with 3 comment(s)
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    Alex said:

    Hi there Michael,

    Thanks for your post, it's interesting and very useful to me.

    Could you please send me some templates or smaple of documentation for SharePoint projects. As you its mnetioned above that "SharePoint SDLC differs from standard development".

    Besides, I have done some researches on the Internet and I found plenty of templates such as RUP (www.ts.mah.se/.../index.htm) and others stuff, but I believe that they are not compatible with SharePoint projects and they do not fit together.

    The list mentioned above (Those 14 points) are really comprehensive methodology to create full SharePoint project from A to Z, I will owe you for life if you could provide me templates of documents or some samples of documentations which applies those 14 points in the list above.

    I truly need this help from you because it's very urgent and so important to me and I will never ever forget this favor, I beg your understanding!

    My email is: alex9spain@gmail.com

    I very much look forward to hearing from you soon!

    Thank you in advance.

    Sincerely,

    --Alex

    # October 22, 2008 7:57 AM

    Albert Laudia said:

    Hi Michael & Alex,

    Do you guys have the Sharepoint SDLC documents and process that I could refer to since we are new in the SharePoint.

    E: albertlaudia@gmail.com

    Thanks!

    -- Albert

    # March 29, 2009 8:50 PM

    Michael said:

    There are not public templates for SharePoint SDLC, unfortunatelly. Few people tries to create them, but I can't find any good templates.

    I would recommend to google:

    Sample geekswithblogs.net/.../documenting-your-sharepoint-application-design-part-1.aspx and geekswithblogs.net/.../documenting-your-sharepoint-application-design-part-2-the-process.aspx

    # March 29, 2009 9:01 PM
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