Нажалост, 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, посебно време за запослене консултанте попут мене (as opposed to independents who must normally live in perpetual fear of in-between time 🙂 ). We staff consultants fill this time in various ways: Рад са фолк продаје за писање предлога; попуњавање за некога или бекаповање особу на овај или онај чудан посао; studying; Блоггинг :). It’s hard to plan more than a few days in advance. At times like this, док имам мало времена на мојим рукама, 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. Још, једете ручак са клијентом, да их на вечеру и / или пића, купити колачиће за тим, идите на кафу трчања, дају / примају картице одмор — 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. С друге стране, you’re a baby. On day zero, Консултанти не знам имена, the places or the client’s lingo. Most times, консултанти никада научити све то.

Када ствари иду добро, 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, никада нисте схватили да то раде.

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, владавина, таксономија, основних типова садржаја, итд. и у многим аспектима, износи дуг, 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, спровођење БДЦ везе са ПеоплеСофт, увео прилично сложен ток посла са СхареПоинт Десигнер, touched on basic KPI’s and more. A proper phase two would extend all of that with extensive, прожима готово БДЦ, стварно лепо тока, фино подешени и боље претраживање, Центар за записе, Екцел Сервицес и вероватно најважнији, reaching out to other business units. Али, није да се за мене, and that’s sad.

На основу овог недавног искуства, 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, наравно.

That’s the consultant’s life and all of these little complaints are even worse in a SharePoint engagement. Као што сам написао раније, 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, можете видети толико много начина на које може да помогне СхареПоинт компанија постати ефикаснији, уштедите време, раде ствари боље… but you don’t always get to do them.

Често осврнем на мој први посао из колеџа, 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, међутим, 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! 🙂

Упркос мом меланхолија расположења, Не могу да замислим место бих радије био (осим у топлој плажи са повећи снабдевање духова).

Једва чекам да почнемо реализује наредних подухвата СхареПоинт пројект.

(Поводом ничега, Написао сам већину тог блогу на Њ Трансит аутобус. I don’t think I made any friends, but one CAN blog on the bus 🙂 )

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