Bob Fox's SharePoint Blog

So your working in a medium to large corporation and your beginning to plan out your deployment of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS for short). You have a small IT staff dedicated to this project and currently you have been working in your lab environment kicking the tires. Its now becoming close to the time you want to push this out to production. I have seen some circumstances where a group will simply load the bits, do the configuration and put out the initial Site Collection with a Top Level Portal and release it to the wild. You need to plan this out folks. With that in mind Joel Oleson gave a kick ass presentation on Friday at TechEd on this subject. At the event that week a bunch of Checklists were handed out and because of the huge interest in the subject they quickly ran out. This is fantastic information that is being released and as someone that does large deployments for a living, I know the value of proper planning. This information will help you.

Joels Presentation DECK

Governance Checklist

Governance Information for SharePoint 2007

So this may seem like some heavy reading but if your working in this realm as a Architect/ Implementer it's a must read.

Enjoy!