Outlining roles in maintaining a SharePoint site
I ran across an article today on SharePoint Magazine about Leveraging the SharePoint Platform. Overall, it's a good (and realistic) discussion of how a SharePoint deployment must be planned supported within a company.
The section on people really stood out, because this was a point I made in my SharePoint presentation--if your deployment grows to any decent size, you can't have just one person doing everything. Number of man-hours aside, it's not reasonable for a single person to do configuration, administration, organization, development, and training. You're trying to jump between a number of very different skillsets, so no matter how smart and capable your all-in-one SharePoint guy is, it's not going to come out very good.
The article links to blog posts by Becky Isserman and Eric Harlan that attempt to define these roles a little more clearly. And for that reason, I think it's a good read for anyone just getting started in a company that's adopting SharePoint. Even if you won't have a team of 4-6 people working on your SharePoint installation (and let's face it, most people won't), the division of skills is useful to divide up responsibilities between the team you do have--whatever size it is.
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