Step 1: Determine Overall Site Architecture.There are a total of 10 steps involved in creating a fully functional, practical and intuitive SharePoint Team Site. Please read it first – it is sort of a pre-requisite to the instructions below It will really be great if you first familiarize yourself with another blog post I published on SharePoint Information Architecture.You need to have Administrative (Full Control permissions) access to create the sites using instructions below.However, same functionality exists in older version of SharePoint (i.e. The screenshots you’ll see are from SharePoint 2013 online (Office 365).As such, I will interchangeably use all these names throughout the post, as in reality (and design and architecture-wise) – they mean same thing.Īs with the rest of instructional posts and presentations on my site and my SlideShare account, all configuration documented below is utilizing out of the box SharePoint functionality – no coding or additional add-ons required! Few notes/pre-requisites before we start:

In reality, all utilize same or similar SharePoint components (web parts).

So for the purpose of this blog post, I see those as being the same. Department site terminology is also often used to store and collaborate on documents among employees of a given department. Some might call it a “ team site” and use it for any sort of team collaboration (not necessary a project per se). Some organizations might use the term “ project site” to track some project activity. You will notice that I am using project sites and team sites interchangeably. In this blog post I will demonstrate how you can get from site above to site below, using out of the box SharePoint functionality, without a single line of code. Out of the box SharePoint Team site template (shown below) leaves a lot to be desired. Therefore, I decided to document this step by step guide on how to create an awesome and intuitive Project or Team Site in SharePoint. Following my very popular slide deck from 2013 on SharePoint Project Management, I have been getting lots of questions on how to actually go about creating a functional project site or team site in SharePoint.

As a Project Manager, I am always looking for ways to better organize my project documents in SharePoint.

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