spbiz - practical advice for developing your sharepoint roadmap

 Online Conference

 June 17th and 18th 2015

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Practical Advice for developing your SharePoint Roadmap

17 June 2015, 3-4pm

René Modery

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René Modery

Email : rene@modery.netTwitter : moderyBlog : http://www.modery.netLinkedIn : René Modery

Collaboration & SharePoint Manager in CH

Office 365 MVP

Multiple years of work experience in Asia Pacific

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What’s a Roadmap?

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Gartner defines it as:

“A graphical representation that is used to illustrate the milestones and deliverables required to transition to a future state from a current state over a specific period of time”

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What’s in a Roadmap:

• Strategy Statement (strategic priorities)

• Initiatives & Projects (timeline)• Risks / Potential

Changes+Disruptions

• Optional: Project Justifications, Costs, Owners

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Dummy Roadmap

Red Bigger Transform

Current State

Future State

MS 1: New Colour

MS 2: New Size

Today Tomorrow

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Slightly Better Example

On-Premises CloudQ3/2015 Q4/2015 Q1/2016

Migration Plan

New Budget

Pilot Users in Cloud

Potential Tech 

Update

Risks

90% in Cloud

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Actual Roadmap – Switzerland

http://www.egovernment.ch/umsetzung/00852/index.html?lang=en

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Difference between Roadmap and Project Plan

Road Map

• How to achieve business outcomes

• How do initiatives relate to each other

Project Plan

• How to execute initiatives

• Resources, Dependencies

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A SharePoint Roadmap only?• Overlapping activities / initiatives

between different teams / departments

• Ideally, an Enterprise Architecture board oversees all roadmap activities

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What kind of Value does a Roadmap provide?

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Strategic Tool that…

1. Supports planning process2. Facilitate investment discussions3. Allows alignment of different

initiatives4. Shared understanding of the way

ahead Buy-in from all stakeholders

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How do you develop your Roadmap?

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Step 1: Assemble the Team

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Stakeholder Analysis

• Who needs to deliver outcomes?

• Who owns the resources?

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Step 2: Where are you now?

• Analyse the current situation

• Analyse/align with “higher-level” roadmaps (IT / company) ( EA board)

CRM UC SP

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Step 3: Define Future State

• Remember: Future State may contain multiple targets (“simplified infrastructure”, “Employee self-service platform live”, …)

• Align with business goals

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Step 4: Milestones&Deliverables • For each future state target, define

initiatives and corresponding milestones and outcomes– Rationalize if/where necessary

• High-level first, drill down where required

• Iterate often

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And then?

Continuous Review - Have a look at the roadmap and refine– Quarterly –When significant change / disruption

happens

A Roadmap is never final!

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Sample SharePoint RoadmapQ3/2015 Q4/2015 Q1/2016

Infra-structure

Applications

Governance

Server Consolidation

Application Rationalization

SQL PerformanceCentral Farm

Enterprise Search

Cloud PoC Cloud Strategy

MS1: App Inventory

New FY

MS2: App Plan

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