Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices

Getting a Technology Governance Team Started

Figure 5-2 offers a typical technology governance team structure. You can use this sample team structure as a reference for our discussions in this section.

Figure 5-2. Typical technology governance team structure

Assign the Governance Team

The technology governance team is a microcosm of the people in the organization who most rely on the technologies being governed and should be composed of no more than 12 members, including the CIO (or the CIO’s delegate), who serves as chair. If the CIO elects to delegate the chair to a staff member, then the CIO serves as the sponsor of the technology governance team ...