SharePoint Projects – Who’s in charge?

Aint You?

There is awesome scene one of my favorite movies, Apocalypse now, where Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) arrives at a destination and no one has a clue who is in charge and has a clue what is going on.

Sheen, asks a soldier shooting randomly at nothing “who’s the commanding officer here?” and gets the reply “Aint you?”

Working on SharePoint Projects with Collabr8 is often like that.

As external consultants we are often on a hiding to nothing and are viewed with skepticism and scrutiny by IT departments and Business users alike.

But often we are walking into environments where the company is so big that:

–          there are multiple people involved in decision making process

–          Potentially many people need to be involved

–          The stakeholders are based all around the world

This often means that as consultants we are unable to get the answers we need from one person and we are often walking into chaos. 

Our job as SharePoint consultants is to not only produce something technically but to act as go between and translators with everyone that needs to be involved.

By pulling all the strings we make sure that the project gets delivered and no one can say we didn’t help.

Rightly or wrongly, we need to take the burden away from our clients so that they don’t have to worry about anything.

Dare I say it, we need to Consult.