SharePoint Online Roadmap Moves Fast

SharePoint is always being enhanced to make it the best platform for compelling and engaging intranet sites. The following are three ways that its roadmap moves fast:

1) Updates to SharePoint Online occur monthly.

2) Updates that need opted in or out have short timeframes for decision making purposes.

3) New functionality appears within a broad timeframe and a lot of times isn’t fully documented. Additionally, it leaves one with little time to customize documentation and create videos if applicable.

See the SharePoint Online official roadmap here:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=SharePoint

SharePoint Technology Roadmap

One item that is important when utilizing or managing a SharePoint environment is to have a technology roadmap each year at the minimum. By planning for one year – this may help one to evolve planning for two to three years out.

Typically this roadmap would be changed/adjusted as needed but at the minimum could contain the following quadrants as an example:

Year (Example 2018) -> Quarter 1

SharePoint cumulative update installed on development, testing and production environments.

Year (Example 2018) -> Quarter 2-3

SharePoint release of new sites/functionality

Year (Example 2018) -> Quarter 4

Install of packaged back-up and restore software

Year (Example 2019) -> Quarter 1

Migration of legal sites to Office365 cloud

Migration of on-premise Mysites data to OneDrive for Business

Year (Example 2019) -> Quarter 2-3

SharePoint release of new sites/functionality

Year (Example 2019) -> Quarter 4

Migration of file share data to Office365 cloud

SharePoint – pilot of financial web-parts dashboard display

 

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