4. Chris Casingena BSc
Combined Knowledge
SharePoint Trainer
5 years experience with SharePoint
www.combined-knowledge.com
chris.casingena@combined-knowledge.com
5. 1 What’s the problem? 6
SharePoint
Tummelers
2
What is a Centre of
Excellence? 7
Why does this
approach work?
3
What does a Centre
of Excellence do? 8 Challenges
4 Who is involved? 9
Sustaining the
change
5
How do we work
with the business? 10
Now it’s your turn,
what to do next?
10 steps to user adoption
16. Developers
New to SharePoint?Yes No
SharePoint
2010 Power
End User
Developer
Track
Want to pass
an exam?
Yes No
Developer Boot
Camp Exam 70-
573
Advanced
Developer 70-
576
Administrator
Track
Want to pass
an exam?
No Yes
Developer
Track
developers road map
17. Administrator / IT Professional
New to SharePoint?Yes No
SharePoint
2010 Power
End User
Administrator
Track
Want to pass
an exam?
Yes No
Administrator
Boot Camp Exam
70-667
Advanced
Infrastructure
70-668
Administrator
Track
Want to pass
an exam?
No Yes
administrators road map
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The Sustainable SharePoint adoption problem
IT / Comms owning SharePoint creates biases
SharePoint is Complex (Cynefin Framework by Dave Snowden)
Both requirements and solutions are emergent, which doesn’t fit with the analytical IT project led approaches we are used to
We too often accept the status quo
SharePoint projects are people projects, they don’t solve the problem in one hit, so we need to support longer term investments at attaining our vision and reaching our goals
CK – Experiences with companies
Pre-Implementation
Lack of awareness can lead to a passive launch
Users are unclear on what SharePoint is for or even what system it is replacing
Post-Implementation
After go-live it is common that the SharePoint system will be underutilised
It may even be adopted for the wrong reasons for example an anti-collaboration dumping ground for files – a user storing thousands of images for his own use
Whats the answer?
Knowing you have an adoption problem
Understanding the role of Change Management (adaptive capacity)
The many faces of Training
Centre of Excellence
What is a CoE?
Business centred
Multi-skilled
The team you need to deliver sustainable value and user adoption from your SharePoint investments
What is it?
Why does it work?
CK - Driven by non IT Depts...
I have worked for an IT department that rolled out SharePoint in all the wrong ways
SharePoint when driven by IT becomes an anchor on the IT Services such as calls to upload files and update home pages
Users are unwilling to adopt SharePoint as it is seen as an IT system.
IT cannot envisage every departments use of SharePoint and adopt a generic standpoint with unfocused business sites
CK Experience of SharePoint Success – Interest, skilled users and ongoing support is the key to adoption
Interest – Informing and education of SharePoint champions (tummelers) help spread the word about the benefits of SharePoint that for end users, comes from a recognisable face in the business rather than an email
User skills comes from training and exposure to the system
Combined Knowledge focuses on providing structured and customised training for any business
CK Experience of SharePoint Success Continued…
Just in time support can reduce the influx of IT support requests from new SharePoint roll outs and ongoing usage
Support+ from Combined Knowledge is a SharePoint productivity tool designed to support users who are new to SharePoint and users who have been trained with step by steps, details and videos for hundreds of SharePoint topics
[Support+ demo]
What does a CoE do?
Managing complexity
Engaging users
Best use of platform investments
Sustained value
Agility
CK support+ customisation for a businesses CoE
Support+ can be customised as part of your centre of excellence
[Demo of support+ that has been branded for the business]
Remember – creating your own knowledge base can be time consuming
Who is involved?
Roles / Responsibilities (Manifesto Manuscript Chap.4)
Technical Authority
SharePoint SME's
Change Agents
Requirements facilitators
End User Trainers
CK – Training
Content to feature on following slides
CK Training
We need to identify SharePoint roles within our teams
Combined Knowledge has been teaching SharePoint for 10 years within the UK and all around the world
Scheduled public classes are regularly available giving you a choice of different courses to book onto all year round
We can provided the same facilities for just your organisation too for a duration that suits you
Training can also be customised and even delivered in your own SharePoint environment
Our classes have hand on labs so that delegates have the opportunity to practice what they have learnt
Certification will also be presented to any delegates that have completed the training
You can then make educated decisions with the essential knowledge
Delivered using Microsoft Live Meeting or WebEx which provides:
Web cam view of the trainer delivering the course
Shared desktop to view the trainers live demonstrations
Super fast network connection to minimise lag
Global training for any time zone
View the training from any location with an internet connection
Using a microphone or instant chat, you can ask the trainer questions
Hand on labs are always available with our Remote Desktop system providing you with your own SharePoint Environment
How do we work with the business?
Visualise / Socialise to gain involvement
Cave dwellers drew pictures, people added to the narrative increasing context, evolving the story etc.
Adaptive Capacity – Heifitz
Bringing everything we have done from Content, Vision, requirements and prioritisation gives us the awesome requirements that make a clear, demonstrable positive difference to our business…
CK – Training the business
See content on following slides
CK Developer Training
Training developers is important – being aware of existing features to stop them reinventing the wheel and focus on non-existing functionality
A developer will need an understanding of how an End User will collaborate within SharePoint
Exams are available as well as more advanced developer classes
CK Administrator Training
An IT Pro may or may not have had previous experience with SharePoint
To understand how to implement SharePoint it is important to know how an End User will be collaborating in it
We also facilitate options to gain certification in as a SharePoint Administrator
Advanced Infrastructure courses assist with the full development of a SharePoint Farm
Training administrators ensures SharePoint is correctly set up from the start will help the system scale with the business without encountering common issues
Yiddish word
Person at a Jewish wedding who makes sure everyone has fun!
Amplifies good behaviours using the platform to deliver the value that you want
Positive Virus
Can’t be made, must be identified and nurtured
CK Tummeler Experience
My experience is they often promote good content in SharePoint by using features like likes and tags
They share their knowledge with blogs to help enthuse the community
They contribute to SharePoint discussions and FAQs
They show the business that you do not need to be an IT professional to achieve success in SharePoint
Why Does this approach work?
Outward facing, maximising business value from the SharePoint platform
Autonomous – Reduce IT/Comms bias
Holacracy – Self-Organising | Self-Governing
Serindipity – value creation based on unexpected encounters | Emergence (value, requirements, use cases etc)
Why Does this approach work?
Outward facing, maximising business value from the SharePoint platform
Autonomous – Reduce IT/Comms bias
Holacracy – Self-Organising | Self-Governing
Serindipity – value creation based on unexpected encounters | Emergence (value, requirements, use cases etc)
Why Does this approach work?
Outward facing, maximising business value from the SharePoint platform
Autonomous – Reduce IT/Comms bias
Holacracy – Self-Organising | Self-Governing
Serindipity – value creation based on unexpected encounters | Emergence (value, requirements, use cases etc)
Why Does this approach work?
Outward facing, maximising business value from the SharePoint platform
Autonomous – Reduce IT/Comms bias
Holacracy – Self-Organising | Self-Governing
Serindipity – value creation based on unexpected encounters | Emergence (value, requirements, use cases etc)
Why Does this approach work?
Outward facing, maximising business value from the SharePoint platform
Autonomous – Reduce IT/Comms bias
Holacracy – Self-Organising | Self-Governing
Serindipity – value creation based on unexpected encounters | Emergence (value, requirements, use cases etc)
Challenges – value, resources, naming!
Autonomy and biases
Getting the right people, bringing people from the business
CoE, Guild, Team etc?
Should we even call it SharePoint Centre of Excellence if we are focussing on business change projects?
CK experience of maintaining value
Request an improvement – don’t get stuck in the past while the business evolves. As part of the centre of excellence, users should have access to a location to request improvements
Businesses that have adopted this methodology help the developers to keep SharePoint aligned to the business
Again, this aids adoption by keeping SharePoint focused on its users. It can be as simple as setting up as discussion list in a SharePoint site
Sustaining the change
Continuous improvement \ Agile
Staying pure
Listening
Learning
Adaptive Capacity
CK experience of sustaining momentum
Support+ is a help system that is customisable and can evolve with the business
We work with the businesses that meet with the Combined Knowledge SharePoint specialists and include their SharePoint customisations in their training outline
Keep people invested with promotions like ‘Profile or Blog of the week’ - incentives can bond and encourage the community to thrive
Now it’s your turn! What to do next…
Review your SharePoint team…
Do you have the capabilities you need?
Do you have the organisational structure you need?
Start to build an independent identity for your team.
Build up the tools and techniques you will need in the future
Start to change heart and minds of senior stakeholders and the exec.
CK – Additional ideas
Tools are needed to ensure support and training is essential for establishing expertise to drive adoption
Avoid passive launches by marketing SharePoint before its implementation and build that ‘buzz’
Going live? Have a lunch day. I have worked with businesses that have photo booths set up to take new profile pictures for my sites or have branded mugs, cakes and other goodies based on their SharePoint design
Train your users, without the knowledge to use this system, the word SharePoint becomes frustrating and unclear to its intended users.