<p>As a SharePoint MVP, active member of the global SharePoint community, an experienced project manager with knowledge of SharePoint business user topics, I am often asked "What are the best practices for SharePoint governance?"</p><p>There really is no right answer to this. I have had experiences some more successful than others in building out governance best practices, but each company and each customer varied and not every rule or approach would be appropriate across the board for companies looking to leverage this experience.</p><p>My typical answer to this question is to tell the person that the underlying principles of good governance are the same whether managing SharePoint or any other enterprise collaboration platform and those principles do not change whether that platform is on premises, in the cloud or a hybrid solution of both. It can be argued, though, that governance is even more critical to hybrid environments to make collaboration a success due to its additional complexities.</p><p>While there are clearly tactical differences in how you manage the day-to-day activities of SharePoint and other platforms features and capabilities, to policies and controls there are ways to create a successful collaborative governance strategy across any platform and any set of tools. The fundamentals include managing the risks involved with the decisions you make around your environment from security concerns (access controls, roles and responsibilities) to data management (storage policies, document lifecycles, information architecture) to auditing (compliance monitoring, metrics, collaboration transparency).</p><p><a href="http://www.cmswire.com/cms/information-management/seven-steps-to-a-successful-sharepoint-governance-plan-020345.php">Keep reading...</a></p>