Www.richmondsharepoint.org Lessons Learned By Melinda Douglas.

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HCA SharePoint 2010 Intranet Migration

Lessons LearnedBy Melinda Douglas


Introduced to SharePoint as Site Admin/User in 2007

SharePoint Farm Admin/Designer/ Power-User /Trainer

Mother of 5Wife of 1

18+ Years of IT Experience Loves Yoga, Zumba, Social Networking and Family


Migrated Sites to Common Platform:

SharePoint 2010

Varied Platforms: HTML, Proprietary CMS, SharePoint

Intranet Migration


Issues • Facility Buy-In• Limited Resources• Competing project priorities• Communication and

Training

Challenges


Initiation• More communication needed during initiation; Buy-in from the top• Perceived as not high priority at the Facilities

Scope • Scope Creep: Researched using Liferay as the front end ( 4 months of research)• Researched Migration path to SharePoint 2013 (3 months of research)

Planning• Multiple communication, education and project plans abandoned due to

complexity• Plan changed to treat Project as program and make each facility as it’s own

projectExecution• Initial plans did not include the numerous meetings required for training( ~400

meetings); • Competing project priorities and scheduling conflicts increased the duration of

the migration

Lessons Learned


On-going Training


On-going Communication• Quarterly Lunch and Learn

Demo’s• Local HCA SharePoint User

Group• One-on-One Training


Conclusion• More Resources • More Communication• More Training• Before, During and

After Project Implementation


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