Chapter 7. Building a Project Management Main Site

In the previous chapter we went through the steps to design a reusable web template that can be used to provision a site to support a standard business process. The example we used was for project management, but it could have also been used for numerous other examples including product management, process improvement, inventory management, and so on. The value of creating those sites with standard templates and definitions is twofold; it cuts down on the amount of configuration needed when setting up each site, but it also provides a standardized set of content that can be aggregated and displayed on top-level sites.

This chapter takes us through the development of a Project Management Master site that can aggregate the key metrics and status information from the project management sites previously created. In addition, the site can also include process and community content similar to what was originally covered in Chapter 4, Building an...