SharePoint at 25 — Episode 2: That Governance Document on the Shelf Isn’t Governing Anything
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Send us Fan Mail For years, governance in SharePoint has been treated as a document. We write policies, frameworks, and rules at the start of a project, get them approved, upload them to SharePoint… and then quietly hope they’ll influence how people work. In reality, those documents rarely shape day-to-day behaviour. They sit on shelves while environments drift into inconsistent structures, fragile permissions, duplicated content, and growing frustration. In this episode of the SharePoint 25t...
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