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Business Track

 

Come and watch SharePoint experts and leaders demonstrate SharePoint Business Capability. Explore the benefits from a raft of SharePoint features. This track suits all roles, and ranges from Level 100 - Learn through to Level 200 - Extend.

 

 

 

 Day One - Tuesday 20 March
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Driving value with SharePoint search: working smart, not hard
With such high user expectations around search in SharePoint how do you ensure that your search experience aligns with the business and user expectations?

In this session you will learn how various organisations have harnessed the power of search within SharePoint to create an effective solution and solve challenges around the find-ability of information.  Starting from creating a vision around search, looking at how to effectively capture search requirements, governing your search implementation and providing effective training, this session will equip you with the tools needed to improve your SharePoint search experience.
Michal PisarekBusiness Analyst/Site Administrator, Information Architect, Business Manager/Project Manager, Knowledge Manager/Records ManagerSearch20/03/2012 10:30 a.m.
The substance behind Social Computing
In this session we will explore the substance behind Social Computing. We will go on a journey that starts with Knowledge Management and ends with Social Analytics, giving you some insight on strategies that help you deliver benefits not only to your people, but your organisation as a whole. Our goal is to provide you with the tools necessary to build a business case inside your organisation.
Daniel McPhersonBusiness Analyst/Site Administrator, Information Architect, Business Manager/Project Manager, Knowledge Manager/Records ManagerKnowledge Management, Social Networking20/03/2012 11:00 a.m.
Aligning Business Objectives with SharePoint
We’ve all heard that aligning a SharePoint governance strategy to business needs is essential, yet many organisations continue to find difficulty unpacking what “business needs” actually means. During this session Paul Culmsee offers a refreshing take on governing success with your SharePoint investment. Paul provides this unique perspective by leveraging his experiences from performing facilitation and sensemaking services in complex, large-scale “non IT” projects.
Attendees will learn:
- Why SharePoint belongs to a class of problems that are inherently hard to solve
- Why current SharePoint governance approaches rarely work and often make the problem worse
- Why users have trouble articulating what they really want
- The reality of how we actually solve new or novel problems
- The one best practice you need before you consider any other best practice
Paul CulmseeBusiness Analyst/Site Administrator, Information Architect, Business Manager/Project Manager, Knowledge Manager/Records Manager, Portal Administrator/Web DeveloperKnowledge Management, Implementation, Governance, Project Management20/03/2012 11:45 a.m.
SP Express - Whirlwind tour with the experts
Join some of our experts for 4 quick 15 minute topics. Michel Pisarek will talk about user profiles – what it is, where it is, how people have been using it. Mark Orange will jump into search, in particular people search. Daniel McPherson is going to go social, including the link of social in search and user profiles. Then Mike Fitzmaurice will wrap it all up with some workflow magic.
Mike Fitzmaurice; Michal Pisarek; Mark Orange; Daniel McPhersonBusiness Analyst/Site Administrator, Systems Administrator/DBA, Information Architect, Business Manager/Project Manager, Knowledge Manager/Records Manager, Portal Administrator/Web DeveloperSearch, Knowledge Management, Social Networking, Implementation, Development, Systems Architecture, Business Intelligence, Building Solutions, Project Management20/03/2012 1:30 p.m.
Strategy, Governance, SharePoint and Information Architecture:  a model that puts it all together
In this session, you’ll learn a practical model that puts together your organisation’s strategy, governance, SharePoint deployment and Information Architecture. While many of the concepts will be presented with SharePoint Server 2010 in mind, the concepts can be broadly applied to all your other information systems. What will be presented is not technical in nature and no SharePoint demos are given during this session. Instead, you’ll learn about a way of thinking about how to manage your information better given the context of the model you will learn.
By attending this session, attendees will learn:
1. How organisation strategies and goals should drive feature adoption in SharePoint
2. Why it is best to adopt a federated governance model when it comes to a SharePoint implementation and more generally, information management
3. How to utilise this model when the organisation’s mission, vision, strategies and goals are not clearly articulated, constantly change or are not adequately referenced or enforced
Bill EnglishInformation Architect, Business Manager/Project Manager, Knowledge Manager/Records ManagerKnowledge Management, Governance, Systems Architecture, Project Management20/03/2012 2:45 p.m.
The connection between metadata, social tools, and personal productivity
Administrators and managers alike do not understand the importance of metadata as the underlying drivers of social computing within the enterprise, the connection between social tools and search, and how a solid taxonomy and supporting governance strategy can increase and optimize productivity. This session will outline the connections between keyword taxonomy, social tools, the end user search experience in SharePoint, and present a business case for improving productivity by focusing on all three.
Christian BuckleyBusiness Analyst/Site Administrator, Information Architect, Business Manager/Project Manager, Knowledge Manager/Records ManagerSearch, Knowledge Management, Social Networking20/03/2012 4:15 p.m.

 

 

 Day Two - Wednesday 21 March

 

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A SharePoint Maturity Model: Assessing an organisations Level of Maturity in Their SharePoint Adoption
SharePoint’s rapid adoption and ability to support a wide range of business increases the complexity of assessing where an organisation is in their maturity of adoption and use of SharePoint.
This session will present new thinking on a practical, useful maturity model for SharePoint.  Covering ideas of Diffusion Theory, feature adoption patterns, and end-user skill development combined with other environmental elements to form a comprehensive model. This session will challenge us all to be better and think more strategically about our SharePoint implementations. 
This is not a technical-drill down session.  Instead, you will benefit if you have:
- wondered why SharePoint hasn’t delivered all that was promised.
- been disappointed with implementations you’ve used or support.
- a need to know more about how SharePoint is naturally adopted in other environments.
Bill EnglishBusiness Analyst/Site Administrator, Developer, Systems Administrator/DBA, Information Architect, Business Manager/Project Manager, Knowledge Manager/Records Manager, Portal Administrator/Web DeveloperImplementation, Governance, Systems Architecture, Building Solutions, Project Management21/03/2012 10:30 a.m.
SharePoint 2010 Caveats: Don’t get caught out!
“Yes but…” is a common answer given by experienced SharePoint consultants when asked if a particular solution design “will work”. One of the key reasons for this is that SharePoint’s greatest strength is one of its weaknesses. The sheer number of components or features jam packed into the product, means that there are many complex interactions between them – often with small gotchas or large caveats that were not immediately apparent while the sales guy was dutifully taking you through the SharePoint pie diagram.
Unfortunately, some organisations trip up on such untested assumptions at times, and in turn it can renders the logical edificice of their solution design invalid. This is costly in terms of lost time to change approaches, but increased complecity since sometimes workarounds are worse than the caveats. In this fun, lively and interactive session, Michal Pisarek will put his MVP (not really) on the line, and with a little help from Paul Culmsee, examine some of SharePoint’s common caveats. Make no mistake, understanding these caveats and the approaches for mitigating them will save you considerable time, money and heartache.
Don’t miss this informative and eye opening session!
Michal Pisarek; Paul CulmseeBusiness Analyst/Site Administrator, Developer, Systems Administrator/DBA, Information Architect, Business Manager/Project Manager, Knowledge Manager/Records Manager, Portal Administrator/Web DeveloperKnowledge Management, Implementation, Governance, Building Solutions, Document and Record Management21/03/2012 11:45 a.m.
The future evolution of Managed Metadata
SharePoint 2010 introduced the Managed Metadata service which provides organisations with the ability to manage and deploy metadata across the enterprise. During this session we will step through the evolution of metadata within SharePoint and explore what the future holds for managing metadata in a large enterprise. 
James MilneBusiness Analyst/Site Administrator, Business Manager/Project Manager, Knowledge Manager/Records Manager, Portal Administrator/Web DeveloperKnowledge Management, Document and Record Management21/03/2012 1:30 p.m.
From Yuk to Yum: reviving a company's SharePoint deployment
In this session you'll see how a poorly utilised SharePoint 2007 deployment was transformed into a readily adoptable solution and how it was so much more than SharePoint alone that made it a success!
Kathy HughesInformation Architect, Business Manager/Project ManagerKnowledge Management, Implementation, Governance, Systems Architecture21/03/2012 2:45 p.m.
What to avoid to ensure workflow projects succeed
There are a number of awry 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 astray, and seven ways to do it instead.  Issues range from application architecture, process modeling, user interfaces, requirements gathering, and integration strategies.  The talk is product-neutral.
Mike FitzmauriceBusiness Analyst/Site Administrator, Knowledge Manager/Records ManagerImplementation, Building Solutions21/03/2012 4:15 p.m.

 

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