Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

The Importance of Governance

Is governance something that needs to be implemented with SharePoint, or should the SharePoint environment be a place for creativity and freedom? Although cases can be made for lack of structure, most organizations don’t need to think for too long before they can come up with examples of IT projects that could have gone better and produced better results, and of technologies that failed to deliver the functionality that was expected. A governance plan must carefully balance user innovation and freedom versus manageability and support.

An almost universal experience is that of data repositories that have not had the proper governance, whether it be paper-based files, file shares, or the email environment, and these ...