During these challenging financial times tough questions are asked of everyone; project budgets are cut and more focus is placed on the Return on Investment. If you planning to deploy SharePoint or have already deployed you will be aware of some the challenges you will face.
Whether you’re a CIO, Project Manager, Developer or Information Worker you will need to consider what influence you can have. At the top of your list should be to spend a few days at the Best Practices™ SharePoint Conference in San Diego, CA.
What is it?
This conference goes beyond the how-to’s of SharePoint and delves into real world issues facing successful SharePoint implementations. Learn how to:
- Make consistent, confident decisions at every level, across your enterprise.
- Break the cycle of avoidance, disagreement and ignorance that leads to subpar results.
- Eliminate design, deployment, organizational and administrative confusion.
- Apply effective SharePoint decision-making in any situation and in turn enhance enterprise communication, collaboration and efficiency – while significantly lowering cost.
- Replace disorder with clarity, direction and confidence.
Who should attend?
The conference sessions are divided into 6 tracks in order to accommodate topics for SharePoint professionals at every level:
- IT Pro
- Developers and Designers
- Information Worker
- Information Architect/Taxonomist
- Project Manager
- Chief Information Officer
21apps is proud to have SharePoint MVP Andrew Woodward speaking at the conference on Agile development with Scrum and Test Driven SharePoint Development. And if you have any really tough question he will be sitting on that Developers Expert Panel!
DEV338, Agile SharePoint development with Scrum – Andrew Woodward
Provide an introduction to Agile development using Scrum and discuss how the iterative approach to development helps the customer to get the solution they want. Look at how this approach works when applied to SharePoint projects, how it helps leverage more of the core platform and focuses effort on the biggest value areas. We will look at the challenges this brings to your development team by doing early integration, dealing with upgrades and changes and understand how addressing the hard things early is the right approach. We will also discuss how Scrum gives visibility of the project and brings both good and bad news. How getting customer engagement is the primary challenge and how the flexible approach is often at odds with the way work is contracted.
DEV371, Test Driven SharePoint Development – Andrew Woodward
Provide an introduction to Test Driven Development (TDD), how TDD influences you design enhances the quality of the developed solution. We will look at the challenges faced in doing Unit Testing in a SharePoint environment and look at mocking out the core SharePoint object model elements using the new Typemock Isolator APIs. We will discuss some of the way you can approach TDD in your environment and the challenges you are like to face.
DEV249, Developers Experts Panel – Todd Bleeker, Brad Smith, Robert Bogue, Francis Cheung, Andrew Woodward.
Best Practices™ SharePoint Conference
Hilton La Jolla, Torrey Pines, San Diego, CA, USA
February 2 – 4, 2009
Sign up now!
Coming to the Europe – April 6-8
For those of you in Europe and having a hard time justifying the costs of going to the USA, the Best Practices™ SharePoint Conference is coming to London, UK. And with the way the British Pound is fairing against the Euro at the moment this is going to be impossible to justify NOT coming.
There are already some great speakers lined up from Europe and a few of the very best from the USA including Joel Oleson, Andrew Connell and Ben Curry.
European Best Practices™ SharePoint Conference
Westminster, London, UK
April 6 – 8, 2009
Sign up early!
– needless to say we will be continuing the conversation over a SharePint after the event.