SharePoint Solutions
Architectural Design and Implementation Plan - 5-day consulting service

All too often, Intranet/Extranet development is seen to evolve rather than to be proactively managed.  A corporate portal is a critical communications and management device for modern organisations.  The range and complexity of information being stored within portals means that the corporate portal is increasingly a container of key corporate assets, and as such, its architecture and development arrangements must reflect this level of importance.

The purpose of this service is to assist in the formalisation and documentation of the architectural design of the site and the implementation project plan for its development.  The deliverable will be an architectural and implementation plan to be used to govern the site development project.

This service, which has been capped at 5 days of effort, is aimed at helping managers to proactively manage the development of the their SharePoint-based site.

The time will be spent as follows:

• Preparation: Completion of a questionnaire by the customer, delivering background information, technical data and any previous thinking on requirements and priorities;
• 0.5 day: kick-off meeting and workshop to explore the scope of the development project, constraints, timescales, personnel required and resources needed and available;
• 1 day: interviews with key staff.
• 1-2 days: Research of technical options, supplementary enquiries of contributors;
• 1.5 - 2.0  days; Draft the architectural and implementation project plan for review;
• 0.25 day: presentation of findings.

Deliverables

The primary deliverable will be an architectural and implementation project plan.  Clearly, the scope and level of detail possible within the 5 days allowed will vary depending on the size and complexity of the client project.