Gary is a SharePoint Governance Advisor to the State Department and a consultant with Worldwide Information Network Services (WINS). He is active in SUGNOVA, and authored a white paper for their last users conference on Maximizing Business Value from SharePoint: A Management and Governance Perspective. Prior to his work on SharePoint, he was a career Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development, with a focus on project, program and knowledge management. He has graduate degrees in international relations, business administration and computer systems management.

Session Topic Description:

An SDLC for SharePoint

As SharePoint deployments mature, project management and governance are becoming increasingly important. All stakeholders in the enterprise need a practical methodology to help guide deployment from initial requirements and design to later adoption and business impact. This presentation will outline a time-phased SharePoint implementation approach and discuss how it may differ from a traditional SDLC. It will also touch on skill sets needed in and outside a client organization to help ensure SharePoint success, as well as deployment and adoption metrics.