Law & Order: Content Governance Strategies
Christian Buckley, SharePoint MVP
SharePoint out of the box is a powerful platform. Unfortunately, many organizations seem to think that governance is also out of the box. It isn't. The result? Site sprawl, unfettered content, and general process lawlessness. This is a fairly common problem, and there are definitely steps you can tackle to quickly get back on track. In this session, we'll discuss several real-world strategies for gaining control over your SharePoint environments, better aligning your SharePoint efforts with organizational goals, and dramatically improving your chances of meeting end user expectations.
Working Magic with jQuery and SharePoint Web Services
Marc Anderson, SharePoint MVP
SharePoint’s pages and forms can seem somewhat old-fashioned to the Facebook generation. By using jQuery, jQueryUI, and other scripting libraries such as SPServices, we can make those pages more consistent with the type of user experiences people are used to on the modern Web. In this session, Marc will cover some of the useful features of jQuery and SPServices as well as some of the rich possibilities available to you by demonstrating solution examples he has built for his consulting clients. This demo-rich session is bound to change the way you think about building your SharePoint applications.
Pencil to Production, Prototyping for SharePoint
Matt Koon, Interface Developer
Prototyping is an essential step to any successful project in SharePoint. Large or small, sketching out your ideas then iteratively refining them through a suitable prototype will benefit all parties involved. In this session we will review real world prototyping methods, take a detailed look at how prototypes fit into the project life cycle, and how to use the prototype as a visual contract throughout the development process.
Seven Secrets of Designing for SharePoint
Kyle Schaeffer, Senior UX Developer
Learn how to tame the otherwise unruly SharePoint 2010 interface using these oft-neglected tools, tips, and techniques for an improved user experience. From simple design changes that make your job easier, to unabashed eye candy that breaks all the rules, you’ll take a tour of the hidden possibilities that can make your next SharePoint project nothing short of amazing.
The Designer Games: Strategy is Everything
John Douglass, UX Researcher, Google+
The Hunger Games (novel by Suzanne Collins) depicts an annual event in which one boy and one girl from districts surrounding a capitol city are selected to compete in a battle where only one person can survive.
Designers, too, are faced with daily battles. Not between people but ideas. Ultimately we’re all fighting for users, but which ideas will win their favor? Sometimes, in the battle arena of meetings, requirements and design reviews, the loudest voice gets heard but not necessarily the best. Sometimes design sensibilities and user feedback take a backseat to politics, short-term goals or decisions by committee. In this talk you’ll learn more about a few useful weapons, such as gamestorming and design critiques, to make sure the best ideas win.
Anybody Home? Not-So-Obvious Strategies to Increase User AdoptionTerry Simpson, Solutions ArchitectUser adoption is one of the primary success factors needed for a successful project. In this session, we will discuss some not-so-obvious strategies to increase the adoption rate for organizations.
In today’s world technology is becoming less and less the constraint when it comes to adoption. Are we paying enough attention to user adoption in projects? What are the primary constraints to your implementation? Attend this session to learn more.
How To: SharePoint Designer 2010
Mike McManus, Director of Training
This presentation will look at some popular new features in SharePoint Designer 2010, primarily Workflow improvements and List View Web Part enhancements. With these two areas SharePoint Designer 2010 greatly increases the no code approaches non-developers can take towards SharePoint customization!
Workflow Improvements
Reusability
Site Workflows
Impersonation Steps
Association Columns
How-To: SharePoint Mobile Views
Kyle Schaeffer, Senior UX Developer
What does your SharePoint site look like on a three-inch screen? In a world that is rapidly turning to the tiny mobile screen to consume information, creating a mobile-friendly SharePoint site is both a challenge and an opportunity. In this session, we’ll introduce the concept of “responsive” web design, and learn how to apply it to your SharePoint site using the amazing power of CSS media queries.