Many SharePoint implementations will fall short in one or more of the following areas:

• amount of planning required/performed
• collaboration between development, business and infrastructure
• knowledge of the platform features
• development skills
• lack of senior management endorsement/understanding

Enterprise SharePoint implementations requires clear understanding and a deep committment from all levels of management. In addition to managment support, a collaborative and collective mindset from information workers to senior management is required.

HIVE Minds Consulting can perform readiness assessments and technical assessments at any point in time during your SharePoint deployment.

A readiness assessment answers the following questions:

• Are your IT staff skills up to speed?
• Is your infrastructure ready and sized accordingly?
• Has the database size and performance been considered?
• Are the business stakeholders involved?
• Are goals aligned?
• What is the strategy for SharePoint?
• Governance in place?
• Any thought given to backup and recovery of critical systems/data?
• Are changes being managed?

A technical assessment answers the following questions:

• Is the current infrastructure sufficient for use?
• Are servers patched?
• Backups and disaster recovery tested?
• Check service and farm accounts?
• Configuration check of Shared Services/Service Applications
• Have the best practives for SharePoint development been followed?
• How is the performance?
• Are there any errors on the servers? Review of IIS, monitoring of events, Check health model.