SharePoint

SharePoint Implementation Assessment

L7 Solution's SharePoint Implementation Assessment (SIA) is a comprehensive framework that enables an organisation to efficiently develop, maintain and upgrade its current SharePoint development environment. Through an assessment of the organisation's current SharePoint environment and interviews with IT personnel, recommendations are presented against best practices.

The SIA is designed for an organization that has a SharePoint development environment in place and requires a review of the best practices on how to maintain, develop and manage those environments in the most efficient way. 

Scope/SIA Content

  • Analysing an organisation's development environment, particularly how the team develops and maintains new and existing features of its SharePoint systems
  • Reviewing the communication process between SharePoint developers within a team and the business and providing assistance to effective communication
  • Providing senior SharePoint expertise and assistance to developers working on projects in SharePoint
  • Recommending relevant development methods that may be enhanced through the use of SharePoint best practices
  • Advising on the use of SharePoint development tools specific to the organisation's requirements
  • Recommendations and advice for development methodologies that can be improved using SharePoint development best practices

Business Benefits

  • Provides an organisation with the ability to maintain a development team even through loss of key staff
  • A common understanding of code among all developers, allowing easier collaboration
  • Improved code quality and reduction in errors leading to reduced costs and time to operation
  • Provides the ability to push changes/modifications to production server without affecting the users

Sample SIA Engagement

Analyzing

Evaluating current development environment including:

  • servers and tools used
  • how and where UAT testing is conducted
  • what type of tests are performed

Interviews and Consultation

Discussions with IT manager and internal developers

Observation of existing development practices

In-house Training

Provide local training to internal developers for best practice and team collaboration

Report and Present

Written findings and handover

 

SharePoint Development Services

L7 Solutions' SharePoint Development Services (SDS) is an offering for organisations that need to outsource SharePoint development, implement projects or place L7 SharePoint experts on a semi-permanent basis. L7 SharePoint developers have been trained to apply SharePoint best practices across all projects.

L7 Solutions' offering is designed to provide experienced SharePoint developers required to develop business applications using, or on top of, SharePoint. L7 can approach development in two main ways:

Scope for Full Development Cycle

  • Initial meeting with client to gather business requirements. This involves:

1.     Develop business functional requirements document
2.     Develop wire-frames and site structure

  • Develop user interface design based on the approved wire-frames and site structure
  • With approval, production of technical specification document outlining the approach to business requirements, wire-frames, site structure and user interface design
  • Development, our comprehensive approach includes:

1. Developer testing
2. Alpha testing (performed by L7)
3. Bug fixing
4. Change requests management
5. User acceptance testing (UAT) environment for client testing and   presentation

  • Deployment at client production server
  • Develop project documentation-the "what", "where" and "how" of deployment

Scope for Resource-Based Development Cycle

  • Allocating one or more experienced L7 SharePoint developers to client site to work as part of client's development team
  • Assisting client with SharePoint development based on requirements
  • Following client development methodology and procedures and providing best practice advice if required (L7's SharePoint Implementation Assessment)
  • Reporting progress

Business Benefits

  • Quality code that is maintainable
  • Best practices are applied all code developed
  • Quality work that is produced by SharePoint

Sample SDS Engagement for Full Development Cycle

Requirements Gathering

Requirements gathering workshops together with L7 Business Analysts

Develop wire-frames and site structure

User Interface Design

Develop user interface design based on the approved wire-frame and site structure

Technical Documentation

Creation of technical documentation for the approach to requirements, wire-frames, site structure and user interface design

Development Process

Using the technical documentation as a guide:

  • Developer testing local machine
  • Alpha testing performed by L7 staff members
  • UAT testing performed by client
  • Bug fixing
  • Regular update meetings to cover progress and any risk, dependencies and change requests

Delivery

Deployment to client production environment

Final report documentation and handover

Maintenance and Upgrades (optional, ongoing)

Provision of SharePoint professionals to conduct maintenance, upgrades and development of new functions