Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Scoping - FastStart
Description - The SharePoint consultant will hold group and breakout sessions to demystify SharePoint, capture the requirement quickly and accurately, scope and provide a high-level plan for the SharePoint project requirement with pricing and timeline estimates.
Deliverable - A collaborative plan to review the findings from these sessions relating to the business objectives, detailing recommendations to attain these objectives whilst outlining the risks and options available
Recommendations for the best way forward with a high-level plan to guide including costs and a road-map of subsequent phases.
Customer Benefits
- De-mystifies SharePoint
- Guides to a deliverable solution
- Achieves buy-in from end-users ensuring successful uptake of the system
- Provides high-level roadmap of requirements, timelines and indicative costs
End-user price: £5,000
Scope of work - Price is for a group selection and planning meeting, 2 half-day group sessions and breakout meetings as required (usually with HR, finance and compliance); documentation to outline high-level scope for first phase of work, hardware and software requirements and indicative costs for consultancy in Phase One and presentation on the findings and recommendations
The group selection and planning meeting will:
- Define the solution direction for the sessions (including document/records management, intranet, extranet, website, content management, forms services, workflow, search, portal, business intelligence)
- Select a group to attend the two half-day sessions
- Customise agenda
- Timetable session dates
The half-day scoping sessions will include presentations and round-table discussions to:
- Introduce SharePoint through interactive demonstration
- Define the business areas to be improved
- Analyse current working practices and environments
- Uncover "Pain Points"
- Analyse taxonomies and security considerations
- Design a high-level implementation roadmap
The breakout sessions will uncover the special requirements typically defined buy IT, finance and HR departments and compliance protocols.
Documentation of findings will:
- Review of information gathered
- Relate findings to the business objectives
- Recommend best steps to achieving business objectives
- Outline of risks and options available
- Collaborate on scope of subsequent phase to define scope of work to meet objectives, timescales and budgets
The final stage of FastStart is a presentation of findings to the management team to field questions on any of the points raised, the findings, the roadmap and the recommendations.
Acceptance Criteria - Delivery of the agreed report that outlines the requirements with costs and timescales in line with the business objectives.
Exclusions and Limitations - The package does not include:
- Installation or configuration of WSS or SharePoint
- Delivery outside the normal working hours (0900-1730 Monday to Friday)
- Group for the scoping sessions should be made up of the same people with the sessions held no more than two weeks apart
- Group size should be no more than 20 attendees