Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices

Gathering Requirements

Once you have defined your stakeholders and received SharePoint Server 2007 education, you can move on to gathering requirements. One of the most common mistakes made with SharePoint Server 2007 implementations is the lack of clear requirements. We have seen many instances where nobody asked the end-users what they wanted! Gathering your requirements doesn’t have to be difficult; it just needs to be done. There are entire engineering sciences around requirements engineering (RE), but it isn’t necessary for most SharePoint Server 2007 installations. Many of the RE processes were designed for building spacecraft, airplanes, skyscrapers, and other very complex systems. Therefore, the following processes are derived from RE ...