What is SharePoint governance plan?
A SharePoint Governance plan is the set of official guidelines for processes, rules, and regulations, do’s and don’ts in the SharePoint environment that we decide to adhere to. The purpose of a governance plan is to: Streamline the deployment of SharePoint and its supporting services.
What should be in a governance document?
Your governing document provides essential information about your organisation including its:
- Purpose (objects);
- Activities it can be involved in;
- Beneficiaries (who can benefit from your work);
- Geographic area you can work within;
- Powers of the management committee;
- Rules for running meetings;
- Voting procedures;
What are the key components of a governance plan?
An effective governance plan provides a framework for design standards, information architecture, service-level agreements, infrastructure maintenance, and your overall measurement plan. It is intended to summarize and tie together, not replace, the documents that describe these activities in detail.
What do you need to know about governance in SharePoint?
Governance is the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that control how your organization’s business divisions and IT teams work together to achieve its goals. We recommend that you consider governance first as you start working with SharePoint.
How to improve site governance in your organization?
Partner with your SharePoint administrator to make changes to your organization’s governance strategy. Defining roles and responsibilities while planning and building your site will reduce the need to clean up or reorganize a site when staff members rotate in or out of a team.
What are two primary ways SharePoint is used in an organization?
Two of the primary ways SharePoint is used in an organization are intranet sites and collaboration. See Planning intranet governance and Overview of collaboration governance in Microsoft 365 for a look at governance in these two areas. Use these resources to further explore governance in Microsoft SharePoint and related services.
What are the governance options in Microsoft 365?
Microsoft 365 includes a variety of options to enable your governance policies across SharePoint and related services, including Teams, Planner, Stream, Outlook, Yammer and Microsoft 365 Groups. To see how SharePoint governance capabilities overlap with other Microsoft 365 services, see: