3. Agenda
⢠Issues and problems
⢠Department vs Project vs Practice
⢠High level relationship model
⢠Practice Specification Model and Relationship
⢠Mentoring Program
⢠Questions and Thoughts
4. Issues and Problems
⢠No defined Standards across the Specializations and
Domains.
⢠No demand Vs supply curve management
⢠No true collaboration across the organization
⢠Lessons learned or IP logs
⢠No standard roadmap available across the
specialization for enterprise project or engagement
⢠Idea Generation
5. Department vs Project vs Practice
⢠Department: Specialized functional area
within an organization or a division, such
as accounting, marketing, planning.
Generally every department has its own
manager and chain of command.
⢠Project : A project is temporary in that it
Dedicated Team
has a defined beginning and end in time, Framework,
Knowledge Base,
Toolkits and
and ... And a project is unique in that it is Templates
Best Practices
not a routine operation. (PMI)
⢠Practice: Practice is responsible to Collaborative, Practice Environment
mentor, manage, provide roadmap,
strategy and best practices for consulting Microsoft Gold Partner
Services/projects.
6. High-level Relationship Model
Domain Practices
⢠Healthcare
⢠Education
Specialization Practices
⢠Portal and Collaboration
⢠Business Intelligence
Organization ⢠Application Development
⢠Enterprise Architecture
⢠Integration
â˘
Practices
7. Mentoring Program
⢠Mentoring program help younger resources to build their professional
skills to match experience professionals in projects and services.
⢠Mentors and Buddies will provide support and guidance to the mentee
such as goal setting, career development and trainings/certifications.
⢠Goals can be set Quarterly or Annually for the mentee.
⢠Mentors need to arrange monthly meeting to track the status for goals
and trainings.
⢠Buddies and Mentee can arrange informal sessions as needed.
Buddy
Mentor (Goal Mentee (Support)
Setting)
8. Experts Community Vision
⢠Remove communication barriers and Improve
Communication among teams
⢠Share and Collaborate knowledge by discussing the
ideas, issues and problems.
⢠Utilizes best practices and leverages tools to
Community minimize problems.
Vision
⢠Lesson learned from projects and releases
⢠Adopt professional practices/processes
⢠Track and Log issues, question and develop follow-
up sessions for the resolution
9. Community Process Overview
Log Agenda Develop
Communicate
Items/Problems on Discuss Agenda FAQs/Blogs for
Find Resolution Solution across
the SharePoint Items discussed
the teams
Community Site issues
10. Mentorship Program Hierarchy
Experts
Practice
Delivery Community Mentoring Program
Management
Leads
Mentors Mentee
Lead 1
Buddies Mentee
Practice/
(Practice Technical
Director) Manager
Mentors Mentee
Lead 2
Buddies Mentee
11. Practice Initiative Timeline
Phase II
â˘Mission Statements, Practice â˘Budget
Goals â˘Business Development
â˘Roadmap development â˘Growth Plan
â˘Yearly Goals â˘Practice Financial Health
â˘Strategy Design â˘Demand & Skills â˘Next 6 month Forecasting
â˘Demand & Skills â˘ROI â˘Operations
â˘Project Status â˘Semi Annual Report â˘Financial Management
â˘Experts Community â˘Service Portfolio, SLAs â˘Practice Standards
â˘Mentorship Program â˘Client Engagement Model â˘IPs
â˘Strategy Alignment with other â˘Governance â˘Practice Integration (Details)
Practices â˘R&D initiative
â˘Integration with Other practices
â˘Core Competency Model
â˘Project Onboarding kit
â˘Reward Model
â˘Community Site Management
â˘Collaboration
â˘MyIdea
â˘Goal Setting
â˘Competency Evaluation
â˘Blogs, Webinars
Phase I Phase III
12. Next Steps
Top Management/Practice Management
â Finalize the goals for each quarter
Experts Community
â Finalize Mentors and Buddies
â Project Readiness guide (Practice level document which helps team how to
handle enterprise projects)
â Practice Standards (Discuss needed with community)
â Webinars and Blogs (Develop List of Blogs and webinars and assign to mentee)
â MyIdea (Plan of action on new Ideas)
13. Highlevel Road-Map
Establish Experts Community
â˘Experts Community Kickoff meeting
â˘Finalize Expert Community members
list and Meeting arrangements. Practice
â˘Setup Expert Community Group in AD Experts Community Kickoff Mission, Practice Goals
for email. Roadmap development
â˘Mentoring Program startup discussion. Yearly Goals
Strategy Design
Demand & Skills
Project Status
Practice Phase I Experts Community
Mentorship Program
Strategy Alignment with other
Practices
Core Competency Model
Reward Model
Practice Phase II Collaboration
Goal Setting
â˘Migrate and release SharePoint 2010 Blogs, Webinars
portal site.
â˘Setup SharePoint Community Site on
SharePoint 2010 Portal. Practice Phase II
â˘SharePoint 2010 Portal Go-Live
announcement corporate wide.
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