In a previous post we introduced the Northridge SharePoint Site Governance Lifecycle, which we identified as having five stages: Request, Standup, Adoption, Auditing, and Archiving. In this post we will focus on the second of these: standing up new SharePoint sites, one of the most common activities to take place in a SharePoint intranet, but also a key governance topic.   In that previous post, we briefly described the Standup stage this way: What is the actual process for standing up a n ...

As Northridge has developed various SharePoint-based business solutions for clients, and assisted clients in a consulting capacity with SharePoint strategy and governance, we have developed a model that we call the SharePoint Site Governance Lifecycle. This model addresses one of the most important SharePoint governance concerns for perhaps the most important element of SharePoint-based solutions: the site. The model most frequently comes into play in an intranet or extranet context, but coul ...