SharePoint Sprawl

Taken from the The cause of 'SharePoint sprawl' blog posting by James Lappin at http://blog.tfpl.com/tfpl/:


 * Team collaboration sites are meant to accommodate the messy day-to-day work of teams and work groups.  You might hope that each team makes do with one team site,  in which they house as many document libraries as they need, for all the different projects that they undertake, accompanied by collaborative goodies such as a shared calendar, a shared contact list etc.    But in practice the team site will be sprouting sub-sites like there is no tomorrow.


 * When a new project starts the desire will come for a new sub-site, like a fresh new exercise book at the start of school term, to accomodate the specific communications and information preferences of the group working on the project. Each sub-site can, in turn, accomodate as many document libraries as its owners want, and sprout as many sub-sites, meeting workspaces, wiki sites, document workspaces etc. as its owners need. You can see where the phenomenon known as 'SharePoint sprawl' comes from!