Governance Segments

The next major concept to understand relates to segments. Governance segments can be thought of as the three dimensions of system management. Each segment covers a set of activities that must be performed to effectively govern the site. These segments provide a useful means of categorizing these activities and understanding how they are related to one another.

As shown in Figure 2-2, the three segments are Information Management, IT Management, and Application Management. Each service deployed in a SharePoint solution needs to be evaluated from the point of view of each of these segments.

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Figure 2-2. SharePoint governance ...

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