Well it's even longer between this post and the previous two. Sorry. Time is just rolling away here and the work on this project is going slower than a dying snail. We will be having inital deep requirements workshops in April (yep only theee months after the original requirement workshops), but meanwhile the Head of IT here is giving little SharePoint sites to groups who can make use of them. It' worries me a bit as they aren't shown how to use them, and there isn't any corporate branding being applied. They are being told that these sites must be disposable, but you can bet your bottom dollar that they won't turn out to be, and will need to be migrated across the the fully deployed Sharepoint architecture. :-(
We know that we already have two big business requirements for SharePoint - to replace our intranet and to take over online internal communication messaging (plus probably replacing our knowledge repository - but that is snied in politics :-S). That should be enough to keep everyone busy for a while. I've been working to try and get the current Intranet ready for migration and to motivate the authors to do some tidying up work. The request for Intranet authors to do some work will go out to senior management this week. I'm still working on the assumption that SharePoint may not happen this side of Christmas so I'm only doing work that is of use whether or not SharePoint comes at the moment.
We still have no movement on how to resource the SharePoint project either. I thyink the project will be pointless if the senior management here don't give it a push, back it, and make some decisions about it. So I'm trying all I can to try and get them to do that too. It's tricky managing upwards though :-S