
Rethinking the SharePoint Consulting Roadmap: What Actually Happens in Practice
There’s a moment in almost every SharePoint engagement where the roadmap—the neat, well-structured plan everyone agreed on—starts to bend. Not break, exactly. But reality seeps in. Stakeholders change their minds, legacy systems behave unpredictably, and what looked like a straightforward migration quietly turns into a conversation about governance, identity, and organizational habits. After working across multiple SharePoint implementations, I’ve come to think of the “consulting roadmap” less as a linear plan and more as a set of evolving checkpoints. It’s still useful—necessary, even—but rarely unfolds the way diagrams suggest. The Illusion of a Clean Starting Point Most roadmaps begin with discovery. On paper, this phase is about gathering requirements, auditing existing environments, and aligning stakeholders. In practice, it often reveals something more subtle: organizations don’t always know how they’re using SharePoint—or why. In one engagement, what started as a simple migratio
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