Maturity Model for Microsoft 365
It’s been a long time since I posted about Sadie Van Buren’s SharePoint Maturity model in these posts:
- Applause for Sadie Van Buren’s SharePoint Maturity Model
- From Annoyance to Harmonizer: Cloud Computing’s Maturity Curve
- SharePoint Adoption and Success: Navigating the Chasm of Despair
- and more…
As a part of the Microsoft 365 Community Docs, we’ve got a team of folks working on an update of Sadie Van Buren‘s (@Sadalit) SharePoint Maturity Model from the early 2010s to modern days.
Our goal with the maturity model – as you can read in the article Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 – Introduction – is to help organizations get better at how they use Microsoft 365, but in the service of becoming better organizations overall. Not every organization is going to want to operate at a 500 level, but knowing where you’d like to be in each competency and having concrete steps to get there can be incredibly helpful, whether for you as an individual practitioner or as a way to discuss organizational goals with higher management.
We’ve published four articles so far specifically about competencies, along with some adjunct articles about things like Effective Communication which felt like they should stand alone.
- Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 – Introduction
- Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 – Collaboration Competency
- Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 – Communication Competency
- Maturity Model for Microsoft 365– People and Communities Competency
We have more competencies on our list, and these articles will come out as we complete them:
- Development & Customization
- Data & Insights
- Infrastructure
Each of the articles will follow the same basic outline, mirroring Sadie’s excellent earlier work.
As a reader of my blog, you likely live and breathe this stuff, and we’d love feedback and amplification of the repo and well as the Maturity Model articles specifically.
The M365MM is open source, just like the rest of the Microsoft 365 Community Docs. If you spot an issue or have some input or ideas you don’t see in the existing articles, feel free to add your thoughts via edits or by raising an issue in the Github repo for further follow up. (Issues don’t have to be a bad thing; they can also be suggestions.)
If you’d like to amplify our work, here are some sample tweets/posts you might use:
- Wondering how your organization is doing with your @Microsoft365 work? Check out the Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 articles in the #M365CommunityDocs #M365MM https://aka.ms/m365-community-docs
- Many orgs wonder how they can get to the “next level” with collaboration and communication. Read the Collaboration and Communication competency articles in the #M365CommunityDocs for concrete ways to improve. #M365MM https://aka.ms/m365-community-docs
- Do you have ideas about how organizations can succeed with @Microsoft365? Take a look at the Maturity Model for Microsoft 365 and add your thoughts. #M365MM #M365CommunityDocs https://aka.ms/m365-community-docs
I’m proud to be part of this. I’ll do my best to post some articles on my blog that shed light on the same sorts of things (alongside other less structured meanderings)