Pro SharePoint 2010 Governance

Develop Governance Planning Documents

The governance team's purpose is to set standards and policies and communicate them to the rest of the organization. To do this, some documentation will be necessary. In this section, we will describe common features and layouts for this documentation. Of course, the needs of your organization will require variations to the document set described here. This discussion should be viewed only as a starting point.

Common Document Features

Before getting into the details of the documents, let's look at some best practices.

• Revisions: Each document should include a revision history that allows readers to know what parts of the document have been updated from one version to the next. This alleviates the need to ...