The best business analyst or project manager may only have a rudimentary understanding of SharePoint beyond a Power End User’s level of technical expertise, and a healthy understanding of the various professionals that might go into a major deployment.
So, after 30 years of being a consultant, and being a corporate leader who hires consultants, here are my brief rules of thumb:
How to Evaluate a SharePoint Consultant…
This is a BIG topic because SharePoint is not an application, it is a universe. Really. There are, and should be, consultants for many different aspects of SharePoint deployment use and development, including:
1. Training consultants
2. Business strategy, policy, governance and integration consultants
3. Project management consultants
4. Legal consultants
5. Line Of Business integration consultants
6. Business Data Catalog consultants
7. Business analysis consultants
8. Document management consultants
9. Operations and infrastructure consultants
10. Deployment consultants
11. Storage management consultants
12. System administration consultants
13. Master page consultants
14. Branding consultants
15. Migration consultants
16. Search indexing consultants
17. metadata management consultants
18. Consultants to manage teams of consultants
Continues @http://www.sharepointplan.com
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