Supporting technical capability

Plan a SharePoint structure that makes files easier to find.

Review how your team stores and finds documents. You receive a proposed SharePoint structure, document categories and labels, plus a plan and quote to configure them.

Engagement context

Where this capability applies.

  • You moved to Microsoft 365, but the files still sit in the same folder tree you kept on the old server.
  • Nobody can find the final version of a contract, and files are duplicated everywhere.
  • Ten years of messy, nested folders make search useless.

The agreed outputs

What the engagement provides.

Information Architecture & Metadata Blueprint

The categories every document falls into and the labels each one carries, in place of the folder tree.

Migration and adoption plan

How existing content moves in and how the team adopts metadata over folders.

A fixed implementation quote

The scoped, fixed price to configure SharePoint to the blueprint. The blueprint is yours either way, so you can hand it to your own team or another vendor.

Worked example

Information Architecture & Metadata Blueprint

An illustration of the record an engagement can produce. Names and figures are constructed for this example.

Illustrative content. The engagement record is developed from the client’s own environment and agreed scope.

Commercial & delivery basis

The scope and conditions of the work.

Delivery window

1-2 weeks

How engagements are scoped
Included scope
  • SharePoint information architecture audit
  • Document categories and labels designed for your own content
  • Migration and adoption plan
  • A fixed-fee implementation quote
Scope assumptions
  • One SharePoint Online environment
Exclusions
  • The configuration and migration build (a separate fixed quote from this assessment)
  • Custom development or third-party tools
Required access
  • Read-only access to the SharePoint sites in scope
  • A sample of real documents to model the categories and labels
  • A 30-minute kickoff with a content owner

Acceptance

The agreed completion standard.

The engagement is complete when the metadata blueprint, migration and adoption plan, and the fixed implementation quote are delivered and walked through.

Discuss the work

Tell us what you need to change.

Share the systems involved, why the change is needed and your deadline. We clarify the work, responsibilities and information needed for a proposal.

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