Growth in third party tools in SharePoint
We have worked with SharePoint as a framework since its first full scale release in 2001. Since then we have witnessed the steady growth in third party tools in SharePoint to provide either enhancements to weaker functionality provided ‘out of the box’ (OOTB), or new features to complement existing core functionality.
The introduction and importantly adoption of SharePoint into any organisation is challenging to say the least, as relative novices, existing SharePoint, traditional infrastructure or software project managers whom take on the management and delivery of these projects, will tell you.
This article has highlighted many issues organisations deploying or about to will experience and indeed, many organisations will experience difficulties in some or all of the above, as a consequence of lack of experience, poor decision making or expectation management with the business sponsors.
I like Adam Bruenz post here which is entitled ’When-Best-Practices-Aren’t-Best-Practices’, which provides a interesting and thought provoking view, and is a topic that is increasingly prevalent on many blogs in the SharePoint community – SharePoint Best Practices. In short, you should not implement ‘Best Practice’ methods even if they have the mighty Microsoft name to [...]