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Chapter 1: A SharePoint Manifesto
C H A P T E R 1
A SharePoint Manifesto
We the users, in order to form a more perfect collaboration, establish function, insure business utility, provide for the common security, promote the general usability, and secure the value of information for ourselves and our coworkers, do ordain and establish this governance plan for the portal of our organization.
First, an apology to the memory of Gouverneur Morris, the author of the Preamble to the US Constitution. The paraphrasing above is a modest attempt to make a point about governance. The purpose of the original Preamble was to describe the reason for the rest of the constitution and for the government of the United States as a whole. Governance is the process of creating policies and rules and assigning roles and responsibilities to make a system work properly. Even if your attitude is “Good Government is Less Government,” very few of us would want to have no government. In short, governance is the difference between order and chaos.