Recently, someone asked me what makes a successful SharePoint deployment. I responded with the following: Platform, Governance, and Marketing.
1. Platform: The first part involves a stable platform. Focus on the infrastructure, hardware, availability, performance, backups, etc.. Anything relating to making the environment stable.
2. Governance: all things operational and support focused.
3. Finally marketing: you need to market the application to end users, do demos, create proof of concepts, and show people what’s possible.
