Tips on migrating to a Sharepoint site
So my place of work is migrating to a Sharepoint site and I was lucky enough to attend some Sharepoint training courses for it. It got me up to speed on what Sharepoint is, how Sharepoint sites work, its functionalities and its workflow. The Sharepoint training got comfortable enough with the terminology to work with the Sharepoint consultant that we brought in so I could articulate my company’s business requirements.
Talking to other friends in the business who had fiddled with Sharepoint, they didn’t have that much good things to say about it. However, I wonder if they had the same opportunity to go on some Sharepoint courses to learn to use Sharepoint properly and use it to its full potential. It’s easy to click the next, next, next and to create some sites but you need to do it right.
If you’re trying to automate the process of decentralizing posting procedures and give the tasks to the content contributors, you need to make sure that the targeted business process is sound. If not, the workflow will make things even worse and less efficient. The time it takes to work around this breadbox manually will take even more time and will defeat the purpose of putting Sharepoint as a web content management system.
My advice in migrating an existing site to the Sharepoint platform is to first write up your business requirements and to make sure that Sharepoint fits your needs. If it does, write down the current business process of how you get things posted, added, deleted, edited, scheduled, expired, archived on the website. Then write how you’d like to see these same processes optimized in the Sharepoint environment. These are your targeted processes.
Laying the foundation of what you need from Sharepoint is absolutely vital in having a successful migration. That’s why it’s important to take Sharepoint training courses to fully understand how the platform works. It has greatly helped with our site migration to Sharepoint.