share point customizations how far should you go

SHAREPOINT CUSTOMIZATIONS

How far should you go?

Do you recognize yourself? Yes, we are building everything our

selves! We are deviating from the standards We say too often “SharePoint? Yes it

can!” We have complicated the design

Reality check!

Not delivering what the customer asked

Too complicated system Performance issues Over budget SharePoint gets a bad name

Know the product its limits!

First step to disaster

Communication Lack of it Assumptions No documentation

• Lesson learned Communicate!! It is not that hard! Document everything Say NO to your customer Customer sessions

Second step to disaster

The data model Over designed the system Based on relational databases Mapped to Content Types and Lists Multi-tier solution implementation

• Lessons learned Do not threat Lists as a database table Check if you need to store the data in

SharePoint or another location Do I really need all those tiers? Keep it stupid simple

Third step to disaster

Implementation Only focus on the presentation and not on

maintaining the content Not using out-of-the box functionality Developers only know their piece No code documentation

• Lessons learned Try to use as much as possible out-of-the box Think of Content management, Security and

Search from the beginning Document your code

Fourth step to disaster

Everything else Migration? No, lets wait till we finish the

Portal Not cooperation with the other parties

• Lessons learned Do NOT under estimate migration Be a team for the customer! We are one!

There is no you!

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