పాపం, 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, నాకు వంటి సిబ్బంది కన్సల్టెంట్స్ కోసం ఒక ప్రత్యేక సమయం (as opposed to independents who must normally live in perpetual fear of in-between time 🙂 ). We staff consultants fill this time in various ways: ప్రతిపాదనలు వ్రాయడానికి అమ్మకాలు జానపద తో పని; ఎవరైనా కోసం పూరించడానికి లేదా ఈ లేదా ఆ బేసి ఉద్యోగం ఒక వ్యక్తి నమోదయినప్పటికీ; studying; బ్లాగింగ్ :). It’s hard to plan more than a few days in advance. At times like this, నా చేతుల్లో సమయం ఒక బిట్ కలిగి ఉండగా, 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. ఇప్పటికీ, you eat lunch with the client, take them out to dinner and/or for drinks, buy cookies for the team, go on coffee runs, give/receive holiday cards — 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. మరోవైపు, you’re a baby. On day zero, consultants don’t know the names, the places or the client’s lingo. Most times, consultants never learn it all.
పరిస్థితులు అనుకూలిస్తే ఉన్నప్పుడు, 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, వారు చేస్తున్న తెలుసుకున్న ఎప్పుడూ.
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, యేలుబడి, వర్గీకరణను, ప్రాథమిక కంటెంట్ రకాల, మొదలైనవి. మరియు అనేక విధాలుగా, సుదీర్ఘ కు మొత్తంలో, 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, implementing BDC connections to PeopleSoft, introduced a fairly complex workflow with SharePoint Designer, touched on basic KPI’s and more. A proper phase two would extend all of that with extensive, almost pervasive BDC, really nice workflow, fine tuned and better search, records center, excel services and probably most important, reaching out to other business units. కాని, it’s not to be for me, and that’s sad.
Based on this recent experience, 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, కోర్సు యొక్క.
That’s the consultant’s life and all of these little complaints are even worse in a SharePoint engagement. నేను ముందు వ్రాయలేదు వంటి, 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, మీరు SharePoint సంస్థ సమర్థతను సహాయం చేయడానికి అనేక మార్గాలు చూడవచ్చు, సమయం ఆదాచేయడానికి, మంచి పనులను… but you don’t always get to do them.
నేను తరచుగా కళాశాలకు నా మొదటి ఉద్యోగం తిరిగి చూడండి, 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, అయితే, 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! 🙂
నా విచారంలో మూడ్ ఉన్నప్పటికీ, నేను కాకుండా అంటాను చోటు ఊహించలేము (ఆత్మలు ఒక అందమైన సరఫరా వెచ్చని బీచ్ వద్ద తప్ప).
నేను తదుపరి సంస్థ SharePoint ప్రాజెక్ట్ అమలు ప్రారంభించడానికి వేచి కాదు.
(ఏమీ యొక్క సమయానికి, నేను ఒక ఈ బ్లాగ్ ఎంట్రీ యొక్క అత్యంత రాశాడు NJ ట్రాన్సిట్ బస్. I don’t think I made any friends, but one CAN blog on the bus 🙂 )
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