Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Creating the Governance Plan

Governance is the process of governing, or managing, the SharePoint environment, which consists of hardware, software, data, processes, and people. Determining the right level of governance for the organization requires an understanding of the goals of the SharePoint 2010 infrastructure and related projects. If the SharePoint environment is being built to simply provide My Site sites for employees to get to know each other better, the goals are quite different from an implementation where SharePoint houses the corporate Internet site and allows customers to conduct monetary transactions. Therefore, a key step is defining the governance plan from a high level that takes into account the goals for the SharePoint ...