| | Total Cost of Ownership, ROI, Payback, Expected vs. Unexpected Costs |
| | Key Perfomance Indicators, Measurement, Status |
| | Business case justification and sequencing for SharePoint Programs and Projects |
| | Risk identification and mitigation; compliance |
| | SharePoint as ECM platform, e.g. Document Mgmt, Records Mgmt |
| | Structure, Roles, Authority, Autonomy, Decision Rights |
| | Markets trends and organizational experience with SharePoint |
| | Versions; determining increments of functionality |
| | SharePoint introduction, adoption, communication and process impact |
| | Repeatable approach for identifying requirements and solution specification and delivery |
| | Program Mgmt Office; Project Management |
| | External provision of SharePoint operations and services |
| | SharePoint related roles and staffing models; integration with IT roles and services |
| | Support Center / Helpdesk; Integration with IT support |
| | Curriculum development and delviery; training modes; Help; Documentation |
| | Identity management; authentication providers; Single Sign On |
| | Disaster Recovery; managing availability |
| | Team and Document Sites; check in / check out; Alerts / Subscriptions |
| | Settings; Change Control; update / patch mgmt |
| | Organization-wide planning and deployment |
| | Providing SharePoint capacity and services; internal and external hosting |
| | Image capture, storage, and management; digitization |
| | Information life cycle; taxonomies, metadata, Content Types, IM Policies |
| | O/S, Server, network, database, environments (dev, qa, staging, production) |
| | Interaction with other systems: Line of Business, ERP, Content Mgmt |
| | To (or from) SharePoint: Enterprise Content Mgmt, Lotus Notes, Databases, etc. |
| | Views, exports, aggregation; reporting tools |
| | Full text and property search; Federated Search; Search Web Parts |
| | Access; custom permissions; integration with corporate security services |
| | Central Admin, Shared Services; backup / recovery; Mgmt utilities |
| | The gnarly stuff: Farm topology, Site Collections, Database, Perfomance, Scale |
| | Portals, Workflow, Web Content Mgmt, Business Intelligence, Social Networking |
| | Site and List Templates; self-provisioning; Custom Sites |
| | Customization tools and activities (Web Parts / scripting, Visual Studio) |
| | Legacy Enterprise Content Mgmt planning and road map |
| | Guidance for SharePoint configuration, e.g. provisioning, look and feel, customization |
| | Utilities, Applications, Services, and Platforms to manage and extend SharePoint |
| | UI design and mgmt; Master Page, CSS, themes, customizations |