Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Unleashed

Outlining Business Needs for the Team Collaboration Solution

The general categories of business needs for this group are communications, project management, and document management. These needs can be mapped to SharePoint features, as presented in this section:

• Communications— Interacting with other team members electronically using workspace instant-messaging capabilities. Finding out when information has changed through the use of alerts. Having discussions on issues or documents using the general or document discussion components.

• Project management— Assigning major project tasks to individuals using a tasks list. Tracking and following up on tasks using a tasks list and various views of the list. Centralizing and distributing information ...