ಶೋಚನೀಯವಾಗಿ, phase one of my last project has come to a close and the client has opted to move ahead by themselves on phase two. We did our job too well, as usual 🙂 I’m now between projects, ನನ್ನ ಹಾಗೆ ಸಿಬ್ಬಂದಿ ಸಲಹೆಗಾರರು ವಿಶೇಷ ಸಮಯ (as opposed to independents who must normally live in perpetual fear of in-between time 🙂 ). We staff consultants fill this time in various ways: ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾಪಗಳನ್ನು ಬರೆಯಲು ಮಾರಾಟ ಜಾನಪದ ಕೆಲಸ; ಯಾರಾದರೂ ತುಂಬುವ ಅಥವಾ ಈ ಅಥವಾ ಬೆಸ ಕೆಲಸದ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿಯ ಬ್ಯಾಕ್ಅಪ್; studying; ಬ್ಲಾಗಿಂಗ್ :). It’s hard to plan more than a few days in advance. At times like this, ನನ್ನ ಕೈಗಳಿಗೆ ಸಮಯದ ಒಂದು ಬಿಟ್ ದಿವೆ, I like to reflect.

I’m almost always sad to leave a client’s campus for the last time. We consultants form a peculiar kind of relationship with our clients, unlike your typical co-worker relationship. There’s the money angle — everyone knows the consultant’s rate is double/triple or even more than the client staff. You’re a known temporary person. As a consultant, you’re a permanent outsider with a more or less known departure date. ಇನ್ನೂ, ನೀವು ಕ್ಲೈಂಟ್ ಊಟಕ್ಕಾಗಿ ತಿನ್ನಲು, ಭೋಜನ ಅವರನ್ನು ಔಟ್ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡು / ಅಥವಾ ಪಾನೀಯಕ್ಕೆ, ತಂಡಕ್ಕೆ ಕುಕೀಸ್ ಖರೀದಿ, ಕಾಫಿ ರನ್ಗಳು ಹೋಗಿ, ರಜೆ ಕಾರ್ಡ್ಗಳನ್ನು ನೀಡಲು / ಸ್ವೀಕರಿಸಲು — all the kinds of things that co-workers do. On one hand, you’re the adult in the room. You’re an expert in the technology which puts you in a superior position. ಮತ್ತೊಂದೆಡೆ, you’re a baby. On day zero, ಸಲಹೆಗಾರರು ಹೆಸರುಗಳು ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ, the places or the client’s lingo. Most times, ಸಲಹೆಗಾರರು ಇದು ಎಲ್ಲಾ ತಿಳಿದುಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಎಂದಿಗೂ.

ವಸ್ತುಗಳ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಹೋದಾಗ, you become very well integrated with the client’s project team. They treat you like a co-worker in one sense, and confidant in another. Since we don’t have a manager-style reporting relationship with the client, the project team often feels a little free to air their dirty laundry. They let their barriers down and can put the consultant into an awkward position, ಅವರು ಮಾಡುತ್ತಿರುವ ಅರಿತುಕೊಂಡು ಎಂದಿಗೂ.

Consultants often don’t get to implement phase two and that never gets easy for me. I think this is especially hard with SharePoint. Phase one of of your typical SharePoint project covers setup/configuration, ಆಡಳಿತ, ಟ್ಯಾಕ್ಸಾನಮಿ, ಮೂಲ ವಿಷಯ ರೀತಿಯ, ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ. ಮತ್ತು ಅನೇಕ ಅಂಶಗಳಲ್ಲಿ, ಒಂದು ದೀರ್ಘವಾದ ಗೆ ಪ್ರಮಾಣದ, extremely detailed discovery. That’s how I view my last project. We did all the basic stuff as well as execute some nice mini-POC’s by extending CQWP, ಪೀಪಲ್ ಗೆ BDC ಸಂಪರ್ಕಗಳು ಅನುಷ್ಠಾನಕ್ಕೆ, ಶೇರ್ಪಾಯಿಂಟ್ ಡಿಸೈನರ್ ಒಂದು ತಕ್ಕಮಟ್ಟಿಗೆ ಸಂಕೀರ್ಣ ಕೆಲಸದೊತ್ತಡದ ಪರಿಚಯಿಸಲಾಯಿತು, touched on basic KPI’s and more. A proper phase two would extend all of that with extensive, ಬಹುತೇಕ ವ್ಯಾಪಕವಾದ BDC, ನಿಜವಾಗಿಯೂ ಸಂತೋಷವನ್ನು ಕೆಲಸದೊತ್ತಡದ, ಉತ್ತಮ ಶ್ರುತಿ ಮತ್ತು ಉತ್ತಮ ಹುಡುಕು, ದಾಖಲೆಗಳನ್ನು ಕೇಂದ್ರ, ಬಹುಶಃ ಮಿಂಚು ಸೇವೆಗಳು ಮತ್ತು ಪ್ರಮುಖ, reaching out to other business units. ಆದರೆ, ಇದು ನನಗೆ ಎಂದು ಅಲ್ಲ, and that’s sad.

ಈ ಇತ್ತೀಚಿನ ಅನುಭವದ ಆಧಾರದ ಮೇಲೆ, I think it’s fair to say that a proper enterprise SharePoint implementation is a one year process. It could probably legitimately run two years before reaching a point of diminishing returns. Details matter, ಸಹಜವಾಗಿ.

That’s the consultant’s life and all of these little complaints are even worse in a SharePoint engagement. As I’ve written before, SharePoint’s horizontal nature brings you into contact with a wide array of people and business units. When you’re working with so many people, you can see so many ways that SharePoint can help the company become more efficient, save time, do things better… but you don’t always get to do them.

I often look back to my first job out of college, before starting a consulting career 1995. We did get to do a phase two and even a phase three. Those were nice times. On the downside, ಹೇಗಾದರೂ, that means that that would mean a lot of routine stuff too. Managing site security. Tweaking content types. Creating views and changing views. Dealing with IE security settings. Restoring lost documents. Blech! 🙂

ನನ್ನ ಖಿನ್ನತೆ ಚಿತ್ತಸ್ಥಿತಿಯ ಹೊರತಾಗಿಯೂ, ನಾನು ಬದಲಿಗೆ ಎಂದು 'd ಒಂದು ಸ್ಥಳದಲ್ಲಿ ಕಲ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದೂ ಸಾಧ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ (ಆತ್ಮಗಳನ್ನು ಒಂದು ಅಂದವಾದ ಸರಬರಾಜಿನ ಬೆಚ್ಚಗಿನ ಬೀಚ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಹೊರತುಪಡಿಸಿ).

ನಾನು ಮುಂದಿನ Enterprise ಶೇರ್ಪಾಯಿಂಟ್ ಯೋಜನೆಯನ್ನು ಜಾರಿಗೆ ಪ್ರಾರಂಭಿಸಲು ಕಾಯಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವಿಲ್ಲ.

(ಏನೂ ಸಮಯೋಚಿತವಾದ, ನಾನು ಈ ಬ್ಲಾಗ್ ಅತ್ಯಂತ ಬರೆದರು NJ ಸಾಗಣೆ ಬಸ್. I don’t think I made any friends, but one CAN blog on the bus 🙂 )

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