Poor requirements can be attributed to failed SharePoint implementations. The key to successful SharePoint implementation is properly developing requirements. A lot of people know that this is important, however, only a handful of folks truly understand what it takes to do this right.
In this presentation, you will learn key techniques in effectively eliciting, analyzing, prioritizing, validating and documenting requirements for SharePoint projects.
In addition, participants will be able to identify:
• Key components of requirements gathering process
• Why requirements traceability is paramount in defining ROI in SharePoint projects
• Why having a well defined business case is necessary to effectively initiate requirements gathering
The primary audience for this class are executives, managers, analysts, project managers, consultants, IT pros who wish to properly implement SharePoint and immediately reap its’ organizational benefits.
Participants will get presentation notes, checklists, and templates.
Dux Raymond SySession Speaker With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management, Dux has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), he is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, Inc., a Microsoft-certifi
... Read MoreSharePoint 2010 now has Silverlight baked into the assemblies making it easier for SharePoint Developers and Designers to create a rich environment. In this session we will discuss how to blend together SharePoint and Silverlight. We will create some basic Silverlight Applications and discuss how to get these Silverlight applications to work in SharePoint. We will go over two possible data binding techniques using WCF Web services and the new Client Object Model. Becky IssermanSession Speaker Becky Isserman has been a SharePoint Developer, since 2005 when she attended the Portal University with Levi, Ray, and Shoup in Springfield, IL. She is an Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD). She has been a web designer/developer since she was fifteen hand coding HTML 3.0 websites in NotePa
... Read MoreSometimes consultants are hired to clean up code that is riddled with bad development practices. In this session we will discuss a specific scenario where code was migration from a single pages library to a site collection with sub-sites. We will discuss the various trials involved with the migration of security, pages, master pages, layout pages, inline images, documents, links, and the creation of site definitions. We will also discuss preventative methods, so that this type of migration will never exist. Becky IssermanSession SpeakerBecky Isserman has been a SharePoint Developer, since 2005 when she attended the Portal University with Levi, Ray, and Shoup in Springfield, IL. She is an Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and a Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD). She has been a web designer/developer since she was fifteen hand coding HTML 3.0 websites in NotePa
... Read MoreMicrosoft SharePoint is the industry’s most versatile and powerful enterprise-class collaboration system. But in order to leverage SharePoint as a true enterprise content management platform, an intelligent, well governed content lifecycle strategy is required. Such a strategy must define the platform’s information and systems architecture, and diligently govern the process of content authorship, storage, delivery, auditing, and dispensation, without overburdening system or staff resources. During this session, we will discuss best practices for designing a well governed and scalable content lifecycle strategy that ensures diligent content management, efficiently integrates legacy content and storage systems, and delivers both the transparency and accountability required of an enterprise-class content management system. Nick CarrSession Speaker Nicholas Carr is AvePoint’s U.S. Sales Manager – Pacific Region, and works from the company’s San Jose, CA office. Having worked for many years with enterprise-level Microsoft SharePoint deployments, Nick has a long record of ensuring seamless integration of AvePoint’s solutions into complex, large-scale environments. His knowledge of SharePoint b
... Read MoreLearn about the advanced integration points between InfoPath and SharePoint including accessing user profiles, auto numbering file names and custom file attachment solutions. Gary BlattSession Speaker Gary has been in the IT industry for over 25 years, working with a variety of platforms and technologies. For the last 14 years he has focused exclusively on the Microsoft suite of tools, executing both small and large scale projects equally. His extensive experience with SharePoint includes architecting, developing and implementing deployme
... Read MoreJeff will discuss the various considerations that organizations must take into account when determining whether outsourcing SharePoint hosting and management is right for them:
1) Should we host on-premises or with a provider? (Can we do both?)
2) Who are the leading providers?
3) If we make the leap, what do we lose? What do we gain?
4) What questions should we be asking potential providers?
5) How do we select the right provider for our unique needs?
6) Do we need a dedicated solution, or is multi-tenant going to work for our needs?
7) How do we make the business case internally?
Jeff BecraftSession Speaker Jeff is a ten year veteran of the Managed Application Services and SaaS group at AT&T (formerly USi, the company that pioneered the delivery of Software-as-a-Service way back in 1998), during which time he has been a consultant and team lead on a wide variety of Microsoft-based software and managed hosting solutions.
Jeff now collabora
... Read MoreThis session will cover the capabilities and limitations of the Microsoft tools that can used for backing up, restoring, and making SharePoint highly available for disaster recovery purposes. Some of the changes that with SharePoint Server 2010, and how they affect DR planning and implementation are also covered in this odd association with everyday items. John BurkholderSession Speaker John Burkholder is a Senior Project Manager for DigiconCorporation, where he is the primary business manager forSharePoint and specializes in architecting hosted SharePointenvironments. He has extensive experience with architecting MOSS, WSS as well as enterprise systems environments in general. John first started working with SharePoint since 200
... Read MoreIn this session we will create a simple case management application and design an alternative Silverlight UX utilizing the SharePoint 2010 Client Object Model. Mikhail DikovSession Speaker Mikhail Dikov is a Principal Software Engineer in the R&D team of Global 360. Mikhail has worked on various ECM and BMP products and solutions at Global 360 spanning from legacy systems to the SharePoint components of Global 360’s BPM suite.
... Read MoreSharePoint 2010 introduces an array of new social components. Learn how to customize and use these components in your SharePoint instance. Session will cover both the central administration aspects, branding, and coding concerns. Michael DoyleSession Speaker Michael Doyle, MCTS, MCSD, MCSE Currently Michael is working as the SharePoint Architect for Waggener Edstrom, one of the leading PR companies with offices around the world. Michael has been working almost exclusively with SharePoint for the last seven years. He has been in the software arena professionally for the last 20 years and has worked for
... Read MoreWhen implementing SharePoint Solutions and SharePoint as an Enterprise platform there are a considerable number of non-technical (people focused) factors that influence whether it is successful or a failure.
What you can expect to see/get from this session:
* Tips and Tricks relating to the non-technical challenges of SharePoint implementations that you can use tomorrow
* How to select and evaluate the Right Technology
* How to achieve strong Buy In and Set Expectations
* How to measure and evaluate ROI and Priorities
* How to achieve effective Governance
* How to Approach SharePoint Projects
* How to Effectively Support your SharePoint Environment
* How to achieve successful User Adoption
* How to handle and plan for New Work and Growth
* Entertaining Stories and an Energetic Speaker
Richard HarbridgeSession Speaker Over the past 6 years I have had the pleasure of working extensively with SharePoint as an end user, developer, administrator, architect, business analyst, and consultant. In this time I defined, architected, developed, and implemented well over a hundred SharePoint solutions from small implementations of WSS on a single server, to 80,000+ user im
... Read MoreSharePoint 2010 opens up new ways to bring data to your users. Join me for a whirlwind tour of BCS External Lists, Excel Services, Power Pivot, PerformancePoint and SQL Reporting Services. There’s something for everyone – whether or not you’ve ever written code! Chris McNultySession Speaker Chris McNulty has over twenty years’ experience in financial services technology at State Street, Santander, GMO and John Hancock/Manulife. He is SharePoint practice lead at KMA, a New England Microsoft Gold Partner, where he leads engagements using SharePoint, SQL Server, Project Server, and .NET. Chris also holds an MBA from th
... Read MoreWith SharePoint workflow, which uses Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) as a workflow engine, there are other options available to developers in addition to custom Visual Studio 2005 solutions. In Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, there are some out-of-the-box workflows (for example, document approval) that can easily be associated with a SharePoint list item. For more complex scenarios, you can write rules-based workflow logic with Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007. In any case, out-of-the-box reporting capabilities allow tracking of task duration and cancelations/errors. For this demo, we will review the full range of SharePoint workflow functionality, focusing on the Litware Visual Studio 2005 workflow solution. Brad MaustSession Speaker Brad Maust (MCTS) has over 20 years of experience in IT. He began working with online DOS-based collaboration environments in 1989 with a software company in Bakersfield, CA. Brad has over 10 years of consulting experience primarily with Microsoft Products and Technologies. He has been a SharePoint Architect and Senior Consultant with severa
... Read MoreIn this session we will dive into SharePoint 2010 upgrade options, discuss the methods available, the pros and cons of the methods, and things you can do to prepare today to ensure a successful upgrade. Alex KirillovSession SpeakerAlex Kirillov is a product manager for Microsoft SharePoint migration products at Quest Software. He joined Quest in 2005, and has held various positions, from software analyst to development program manager. Alex has worked on various migration and management products for enterprise deployments of Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies. I
... Read MoreAlthough there are several enhancements that allow for sharing rich media on SharePoint 2010, I will focus on the Media Field Control, which is also used on the Media WebPart that allows for sharing media in an ad hoc manner.
The Business Scenario – Creating a custom Publishing Page Layout and using the Media Field Control
So, if we have the Media WebPart, why use the Media Field Control? Great question! Here is one scenario, let’s say you are looking to create a Publishing Page Layout for a Press Release on your SharePoint Site. This Publishing Page Layout needs to support the ability for users to insert a video and enrich user experience.
This session will not go into details on creating a Publishing Page Layout
Media Field Control - Out of the Box Capabilities
• It plays videos from within SharePoint or remote locations
• It is built on Silverlight 3.0 or higher
• You can skin it to change the appearance using Expression Blend 3, since the skin is a XAML file
It is extensible via the JavaScript Object Model, you can play, pause, change properties, etc.
Oscar MedinaSession Speaker Oscar is a SharePoint Solutions Architect and Managing Partner at SharePointAce Consulting Group, LLC. He has over 14 years of software development experience and has been involved with SharePoint since its first version (SharePoint 2001).
Previously a Consultant at Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) North West Region with focus on
... Read MoreIn this session you will get an overview of the new Enterprise Content Management (ECM) features introduced in SharePoint 2010. You will walk away with an understanding of how SharePoint 2010 delivers on the “ECM for the Masses” promise and see some of these features in a demo. Erica ToelleSession Speaker Erica Toelle is a digital native with a business consulting background. Erica has been helping companies with SharePoint since 2004, by creating business solutions revolving around Enterprise Content Management, Collaboration, and Communities. She has written several Enterprise Content Management whitepapers for Microsoft explaining SharePoi
... Read MoreGood governance has always been one of the most important aspects of a successful SharePoint implementation. With the expanded feature set of 2010, this session will look at new considerations around governance strategy and the adjustments organizations will need to plan for to upgrade or implement. We will explore many of the new 2010 features that will require the greatest governance planning such as managed metadata services, new document / records management as well as implementation of the new social networking features. Virgil CarrollSession Speaker Mr. Carroll has run High Monkey Consulting over the past decade and is instrumental in HMC’s three practice areas: Collaboration, User Experience and Interface Design / Development. Mr. Carroll has 10+ years working with Microsoft technologies and is currently pursuing his 2nd Master’s Degree in Human Computer Interactions.
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... Read MoreManaged metadata services is one of the most exciting new features in SharePoint 2010. Finally organizations are able to implement and manage a consistent metadata structure to support better categorization and taxonomy support. This session will explore the new features of the MMS and identify best practices around its utilization. This session will also explore planning out a first implementation including where to start, how to manage and what will really bring the most value to your organization. Virgil CarrollSession SpeakerMr. Carroll has run High Monkey Consulting over the past decade and is instrumental in HMC’s three practice areas: Collaboration, User Experience and Interface Design / Development. Mr. Carroll has 10+ years working with Microsoft technologies and is currently pursuing his 2nd Master’s Degree in Human Computer Interactions.
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... Read MoreA practical overview of the SharePoint 2010 platform for IT professionals. This session will provide a brief introduction to the platform by looking at new browsers and tools like SharePoint Workspace. Following that, we’ll dive more deeply into infrastructure and topology, upgrade paths, administration, optimization and branding – with live extensive demonstrations and real world scenarios. (You’ll see an upgrade from start to finish!) Chris McNultySession SpeakerChris McNulty has over twenty years’ experience in financial services technology at State Street, Santander, GMO and John Hancock/Manulife. He is SharePoint practice lead at KMA, a New England Microsoft Gold Partner, where he leads engagements using SharePoint, SQL Server, Project Server, and .NET. Chris also holds an MBA from th
... Read MoreWorkflow in SharePoint 2010 has been revamped with a new designer for building both reusable workflows and list based workflows. Come and learn about the new possibilities for building workflows in SharePoint 2010 and integrating it with Visio and InfoPath. This talk will describe the new workflow features and demonstrate how SharePoint 2010 can be used to create rich end to end workflows, and how to prototype workflows in SharePoint Designer for further development in Visual Studio 2010. Barry BoudreauSession Speaker Barry has been a SharePoint Technology Specialist with Microsoft for the last several years, but has been working with SharePoint since 2000. In his current role, he is tasked with guiding some of our largest enterprise customers in the use, deployment and development of applications on the SharePoint platform. He has worked for Micros
... Read MoreWith SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft has made a major leap forward in new enterprise search options that cover the full spectrum of business needs. This session will provide an overview of the key search capabilities in SharePoint 2010 through demonstrations of new features and example applications. Barry BoudreauSession SpeakerBarry has been a SharePoint Technology Specialist with Microsoft for the last several years, but has been working with SharePoint since 2000. In his current role, he is tasked with guiding some of our largest enterprise customers in the use, deployment and development of applications on the SharePoint platform. He has worked for Micros
... Read MoreSearch in SharePoint 2010 has been greatly enhanced from the capabilities of MOSS 2007. Adam will discuss how Microsoft’s acquisition of Fast Search has changed the face of search in SharePoint 2010. He’ll also review the architecture, design and deployment of search in MOSS 2007 and SharePoint 2010. You’ll learn how to decrease the time required for the never-ending search for data, improving productivity and maximizing your SharePoint investment. Adam WoodruffSession Speaker Adam heads the Microsoft SharePoint Professional Services Practice at Quest Software. His experience includes advising enterprise clients about Microsoft’s Unified Communications strategy. With more than 10 years of experience creating solutions utilizing Microsoft systems and infrastructure, Adam is skilled in Windows, Microsoft Exchange, O
... Read MoreA deep dive into the leading social networking contenders (Facebook, Box.net, Ning, Wave, Jive), comparing and contrasting their capabilities against SP2010 capabilities, and why they are important to the enterprise. This session will catalog the rise of commercial social media tools, outline social media in the enterprise (business value, changes to social informatics in the workplace, data and intellectual property concerns), and present a scorecard of the primary features of the leading solutions against SharePoint 2010 features in the enterprise, with guidance on how to build comparable solutions in SharePoint, and with answers to concerns about security, IP rights, data management, network impact, and employee productivity. Mike WatsonSession Speaker Mike Watson (MCSE, MCSA) is a Principal at SeriousLabz specializing in SharePoint manageability, scalability and availability. Prior to SeriousLabz, Mike was a Senior Architect at Quest Software, and before that he was at Microsoft, where he was instrumental in planning and deploying Microsoft Managed Services and Microsoft Online, as well as
... Read MoreCovering the why and how of using Powershell to automate Farm Deployment.
Corey BurkeSession Speaker Corey is the Lead Engineer for the SharePoint Product Support Team at Rackspace Hosting. He is focused on R&D, implementation, and Systems Administration.
... Read MoreMicrosoft SharePoint has shifted the paradigm in enterprise information management and team collaboration. By empowering knowledge workers, SharePoint can increase worker productivity, improve business process efficiency and streamline business processes. To achieve this goal, effectively managing SharePoint 2007 and 2010 projects is paramount. Executive support, proper planning, and appropriately managing expectations are crucial to ensure SharePoint success.
In this interactive session, you will learn how to:
- Initiate executive excitement, promote organizational buy-in and foster user adoption
- Develop an effective and practical project management process in deploying SharePoint
- Apply relevant strategies in mapping business processes to identify SharePoint-based solutions
- Identify necessary resources to plan, deploy, maintain and support your SharePoint implementation
- Minimize uncertainty and risk by applying practical scope management techniques
The primary audience for this class are executives, managers, analysts, consultants, project managers, IT Pros who wish to properly implement SharePoint and immediately reap its’ organizational benefits. Dux Raymond SySession SpeakerWith over 15 years of experience in Information Technology and Project Management, Dux has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. A certified Project Management Professional (PMP), he is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, Inc., a Microsoft-certifi
... Read MoreIn this session we will see how to customizing the 2010 ribbon, add new ribbon buttons, groups and contextual tabs. We will try to understand how does the ribbon gets generated and get a better insight that will help us understand how to work with it better from web parts, features and other customizations. Shai PetelSession Speaker Shai Petel has vast experience in software development, consulting and training for organizations. He is currently responsible for KWizCom’s product development and technical research. Since 2004, Shai has been training developers in maximizing the SharePoint platform utilizing a unique curriculum he created in collaboration with KWizCom exp
... Read MoreMany companies rely upon Return on Investment (ROI) when making technology strategy decisions, but few take the time to actually determine how much that strategy will cost over time. That's unfortunate, because without estimating the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), ROI is meaningless. There's no way of knowing how large an investment is actually being made.
That's particularly true when companies decide whether to use an IT hosting provider or take the do-it-yourself route; Buy v. Build. Because managed hosting is presenting a complete solution, all costs are on the table from the start. By contrast, in-house hosting often involves hidden costs that aren't surfaced until the do-it-yourself project is well underway.
Hidden cost when trying to ‘build’ an infrastructure will be buried in three phases; Capital Expenditures (CAPEX), Hardware Deprecation and overall infrastructure maintenance.
With the introduction of Public Cloud and Private Cloud infrastructures, it truly allows for a more SaaS based SharePoint deployment with better utilization of resources and Global deployments.
Matt LathropSession Speaker Matthew Lathrop joined Rackspace in October of 2007 after several years facilitating internal operations, procurement and vendor management in the Austin area. Matthew’s skills sets were best utilized within Rackspace when it came to discussing operational efficiencies with companies how to better utilize capital resources. Quickly mov
... Read MoreMigration is a roadblock to moving forward with your SharePoint strategy. Migration is phased, iterative, and error prone. But migration itself is not the goal – an optimized and user-friendly environment is your goal. Beyond the Microsoft-provided overview of how to plan for an upgrade and migration, there is a lot of room for error. This presentation outlines 11 critical strategies for migration planning that no project should move forward without. (based on article being published in ECM Connections in October 2010) Attendees will walk away with a detailed action plan for their migrations to SharePoint 2010. Christian BuckleySession Speaker Christian Buckley is Director of Product Evangelism for echoTechnology, an Axceler company, where he helps drive product strategy and marketing. Christian previously worked at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager on the enterprise hosted SharePoint platform team (now part of BPOS), and also led an engineering and PM team in advertising operations
... Read MoreMany companies, whether considering further investment in their SharePoint 2007 deployments or planning upgrades to SharePoint 2010, are reviewing their social media strategies. Many users are chomping at the bit to deploy and use the new, natively supported social media features in SharePoint 2010. But most administrators do not fully understand the taxonomy and data governance issues within SharePoint that are associated with these kinds of solutions. The intent of this presentation is to walk participants through the taxonomy and governance implications of the social media capabilities within SharePoint 2007 and 2010, to provide them with the information they need to prepare their organization for these tools, and to provide guidance, best practices, and working examples on how to approach setting up and managing metadata, aligning these tools with their broader corporate content management strategies, and to maintain manageability of their SharePoint environment through governance. Christian BuckleySession SpeakerChristian Buckley is Director of Product Evangelism for echoTechnology, an Axceler company, where he helps drive product strategy and marketing. Christian previously worked at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager on the enterprise hosted SharePoint platform team (now part of BPOS), and also led an engineering and PM team in advertising operations
... Read MoreThis presentation discusses the necessity for Project Manager's (PMs) and their organizations to understand the impact of implementing a feature rich technology like SharePoint throughout their organization. SharePoint implementations present challenges for PM’s due to the need to address the complex organizational change elements, as well as the technical requirements. SharePoint provides organizations with hundreds of features out of the box from collaboration to enterprise content management, from document management to business intelligence. This sessions will:
· Provide attendees with a set of best practices to increase the probability of success.
· Offer recommendations on how to ensure the implementation is a technical success, but an organizational victory.
· Discuss the key issues associated with SharePoint implementations
Greg KieferSession Speaker Greg Kiefer (MBA, PMP) is a leading expert in application development and system integration. He has published numerous articles on application design, software development techniques, and project management. For nearly two decades, he has managed a highly-respected consulting firm that develops software applications and provides innovative approa
... Read MoreOnly recently was SharePoint accepted in the ECM space. This session explores WHY SharePoint is ECM and what the impact of SharePoint 2010 has been on the ECM space. We will explore the language barrier, which is the number one reason SharePoint 2007 was not considered ECM. Discuss some best practices when using SharePoint as ECM, and view a few demos. Chris RileySession Speaker Chris Riley is a pure Technologist and recognized industry expert in document recognition, ECM, and analytics technologies. Founder of LivingAnalytics and now Senior ECM & Document Capture Architect at ShareSquared, Inc., Chris lives and breathes technology and has been helping companies buy, use, and optimize advanced technologies given their
... Read MoreSharePoint 2010 provides a sophisticated infrastructure for building social, networked applications. . SharePoint Server is the information store for people, community and data used for social application. The new profile store, synchronization service and other SharePoint application services provide a vast toolset for quickly building people aware applications. In this session we cover the concepts of working with social technologies and how we can leverage them for enterprise application. Paul J. SwiderSession Speaker Paul J. Swider is an international speaker, writer and freelance consultant. In addition he is president of the Charleston SharePoint Users Group and a contributing author of the new Professional SharePoint 2010 Development book published by Wrox Press. He is an accomplished entrepreneur straight from a barrier Island near Charleston; SC.
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... Read MoreMOSS 2007 left a gap in enterprise metadata management, between enterprise need and product functionality. SharePoint 2010 has made a significant step forward in filling that gap. In this presentation, David will address the features, limitations, architecture, and administration of MMS. He’ll also dive into C# and PowerShell as he demonstrates how to populate and manage the MMS. David FretteSession Speaker David currently runs Moss Delight Services, a company focused on SharePoint solutions. As a SharePoint Architect and Developer, his goal is to make SharePoint as user-friendly and application-rich as possible. He is also currently authoring SharePoint 2010 Developer cookbook for ASP.NET developers.
... Read MoreA lot has been made about the new feature/functionality in SharePoint 2010, but nobody is really talking about what is required to make those new features hum. In this interactive session, we’ll explore deployment and management scenarios that require minimum resources and minimum effort and discuss new out of the box and third party tools that make SharePoint 2010 manageable. Laura DochertySession Speaker Laura has worked for over 16 years delivering Information Technology as a business asset in both the public and private sectors winning several awards for the innovative use of technology. She is competent with Microsoft and open-source solutions and has a wealth of experience in training, business process automation, and operations. Laura facilit
... Read MoreTraditional content management has been blended with social technology in SharePoint Server. In addition we have an explosion of content to manage. Traditional content types, social content and metadata need to be structured and disseminated. In this session you will learn about authoritative metadata vs social metadata, the Managed Metadata Service, tag navigation and filtering, Document Sets, The Content Organizer, and the taxonomy API. There will be a question and answer session following the demonstrations. Paul J. SwiderSession SpeakerPaul J. Swider is an international speaker, writer and freelance consultant. In addition he is president of the Charleston SharePoint Users Group and a contributing author of the new Professional SharePoint 2010 Development book published by Wrox Press. He is an accomplished entrepreneur straight from a barrier Island near Charleston; SC.
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