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Abstracts

IW1 Track

IW401 - An executive guide to SharePoint. Business-oriented best practices for the SharePoint platform - Brad Smith

You can't throw a rock in the IT industry today without hitting a SharePoint portal or site. The grassroots success of the technology has made it nearly as ubiquitous as Exchange Server. Entire market sectors have developed around addressing or exploiting the features or foibles of SharePoint, and in certain ways it could be considered one of the most disruptive software products developed in the last 15 years. Yet even with all of the action in and around the SharePoint market, the amount of confusion about its value and the examples of its spectacular failure for some customers are common.
In this session, I will be covering some of the primary business best practices a SharePoint customer or services provider can use to ensure that SharePoint is valuable for an organization and doesn't end up as another failure. I will introduce you to some of the Bad Habits that both SharePoint customers and services providers commonly assume or implement, and how they can be avoided so your project does not become a cautionary tale. I'll also be covering:
i. What is a good SharePoint resource and why are they so hard to find
ii. The "How vs. Why" perspective on technology
iii. SharePoint Core Values that you and your organization should adopt

IW402 - The discipline of Findability - Bill English

In this session, SharePoint MVP Bill English will discuss what Findability is and go over the latest research on Findability. He’ll outline the core problems with findability, including a lack of understanding of what Findability is, how Findability is confused with search technology platforms and how most corporations want to find their information quickly and easily, but yet they can’t seem to achieve this goal in spite of their best efforts and intentions. Bill will also outline the costs of a poor findability solution. If you’ve been working on ways to use SharePoint to make your information more findable, this session will help you understand the hidden problems which you must overcome in order to be successful in implementing a robust Findability solution.

IW403 - Records Management improvements in SharePoint 2010 - John Holliday

SharePoint 2010 introduces many new content management features that can be applied to build both document and records management solutions. In this session, we'll examine these features in detail and explore ways to apply them to solve traditional records management problems such as creating hierarchical file plans, using metadata to drive content routing and making e-Discovery more accessible for records managers and end users. During the session, we'll also explore the new in-place records management features that make it easier to manage compliance details for individual documents, and we'll take a closer look at the improved Records Center site to see how it combines all of the new content management features to simplify the creation of a locked-down records vault.

IW404 - How to organise effective requirements gathering workshops - Ruven Gotz

Analyst: What would you like SharePoint to do?
Customer: Well, what can it do?
Analyst: Tons! Let me show you…
All too often, this is how conversations between analysts and customers/stakeholders begin, and it isn’t helpful to anyone. SharePoint has a vast array of capabilities, but if you start by describing or demonstrating what SharePoint can do and how the technology works, you will end up with customers who are confused and don’t know where to begin, or who have massively overblown expectations.
In this session, you will learn how to set up and conduct workshops with various stakeholders that will allow you to understand their real needs. You will then learn how to document and organize this information so that it is useful to the stakeholders and that will allow you to guide them through prioritization and planning.
You will learn when NOT to do demonstrations of SharePoint, and when and how to do demos that are powerful and effective.

IW405 - Best Practices for achieving Enterprise content management for the masses. - Ben Robb

Technology is often the easiest part of running and delivering ECM systems within your company. Employee engagement, change management, governance, and communication are all key topics which often get forgotten when planning ECM projects, but they make the difference between the success and failure of your project.

IW406 - SharePoint and the cloud – the good / bad and ugly - Paul Turner

Microsoft has been offering online services in the cloud with BPOS, now Office 365, for several years since the introduction of SharePoint 2007. This session looks at the reasons why major companies are investigating the use of these cloud services especially based on the improved features available in the SharePoint 2010 offering. The session looks into the reasons for using or not using this service based on experiences with 3 major international companies who have 1. Used the offering as is, 2. Taken their intranet from the BPOS service to in-house and 3. Using BPOS as part of a hybrid (Mutli) cloud environment.

IW407 - End User Adoption - the most hijacked SharePoint Term, what does it actually mean - Steve Smith

In this session Steve is going to be explaining the various considerations when addressing SharePoint and User adoption and how his 10 years experience in the SharePoint world has shown how many companies have still not thought about this enough in their SharePoint designs and the consequences of taking the wrong approach.

IW408 - The Wisdom in your crowds - Daniel McPherson

Your intranet provides a great place for people to collaborate, to share documents, news, and information. There is no doubt that individuals find the functionality and features of SharePoint compelling, and build any number mini-solutions to fulfil their business requirements. But what about the organisation as a whole? In this session we will look at how you can get value from looking at the activities happening across your intranet in aggregate. There is wisdom in them their crowds.

IW409 - SharePoint operational Management – taking your team from Newbies to Rock stars - Chandima Kulathilake

The session outlines why IT operations teams need to be "SharePoint operational ready" by ensuring that when project teams handover solutions built using SharePoint, these can be supported using existing support tools and processes. The session covers IT operational management frameworks and how/why IT teams should plan to add SharePoint to their operational management duties. The session will cover roles, responsibilities and skills required in IT teams to be able to help the business manage and operate a SharePoint platform after "go-live". The session will look at some of the challenges and possible actions to overcome these in order to provide a stable and robust SharePoint operational management platform.

IW410 - Understanding the steps necessary for building an Information Architecture for your organization - Bill English

In this session, you’ll learn the basic steps to building out an information architecture for your organization. While many of the concepts will apply to SharePoint Server 2010, the concepts will broadly applicable to your other information systems as well. What will be presented in not technical in nature. Instead, you’ll learn about a way of thinking about how to manage your information better. Applications to SharePoint 2010 will be offered and it will be argued that not moving to SharePoint 2010 will hinder your ability to implement a full IA in your environment

IW411 - Achieving Return of Investment with SharePoint - Brad Smith

Even with all of the business SharePoint has generated for Microsoft and its partners (and competitors), there is still massive confusion in many markets about the value of the product to customers and how to define its benefit. Many people talk about ROI, and offer up calculations that are difficult or impossible to prove. In some cases people have stopped talking about ROI altogether, which is very dangerous for any organization that wants to be completive…or stay in business.
In this session, I will present a series of best practices that will help you and/or your customers calculate the true value of a SharePoint implementation. Additionally, we will go over:
i. Portals and their savings (I mean costs)
ii. Using Applications to increase revenue
iii. Using Process Improvement to increase savings.
Finally, I will share with you some examples of organizations that achieved a mathematically provable ROI with a currently operational system, that was made possible with SharePoint and these best practices.

IW412 - When, Why and How Office Web Apps - Alex Pearce

We've all seen the Microsoft Office Web Apps but when is it right to use the web app or the full client. We'll have a look at the benefits of the products and some of the configuration within your document and spread sheets that you need to change to ensure they work successfully within the Office Web Apps.

IW413 - What to avoid to ensure Workflow projects succeed - Mike Fitzmaurice

There are a number of mistakes that happen all too often with workflow projects, and most happen at the planning and project management stage. This session will cover seven key things encountered all too often in efforts that go awry, as well as seven ways to do it instead. Issues range from application architecture, process modeling, user interfaces, requirements gathering, and integration strategies.

IW414 - Governing your users with the new SharePoint 2010 UI - Virgil Carroll

Good 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.

IW415 - Best Practices to Managing Projects using Project Server 2010 - Rolly Perreaux

Do you want to centrally manage projects/resources that go well beyond to creating a task list or a collection of yellow sticky notes? When you look at Microsoft Project, do you see an Excel spreadsheet that creates pretty Gantt charts and wondered if there's more to this tool? Well this session is for you. In this session, we will present how to manage projects using Project Server 2010 with Project Professional 2010. We will explain how Project Server works, how to assign resources to a project, create a project baseline, track the progress of your project and how to display your project data that your manager will understand and love. As a bonus, we will provide you a "How to" step-by-step checklist to successfully manage projects.

IW416 - How to teach an old dog 'IT Team' New tricks - Paul Stork
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