Services Ready Practice Accelerators for Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Services Ready is a program for Microsoft Gold Partners that “provides pre-tested, repeatable offerings and best practices developed by Microsoft Services during early consulting engagements”, or as I would call it a set of templates and best practices around sale, planning and implementation of Microsoft solution offerings. For a specific service implementation, this includes:

• Instructor-led training around the delivery of the solution
• Solution accelerators for delivering the project using the Microsoft Solution Framework
• Project plans, sales presentations, vision and scope documents, functional specification templates and more

All in all, services ready is a great resource and a good start of any project.

Recently, I have come across Services Ready for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 which covers the following sections:

• Platform Services
• Enterprise Portals
• Enterprise Search
• Social Computing
• Business Intelligence

Now, this is not merely an extended version of SharePoint Deployment and Planning Services (SDPS) but a framework guidance for delivering enterprise scale custom implementations. The accelerator should work as a way of producing SharePoint solutions quicker with better quality and higher predictability.

For more information on the Services Ready offering for Microsoft SharePoint 2010, see http://www.servicesreadyblog.com/microsoft-launches-sharepoint-2010-practice-accelerator-for-managed-partners/.