Event: SharePoint Saturday Perth
Date: Saturday, 6th February, 2010
Venue: Cliftons Perth
Time: 08:00 – 16:30
Cost: Free

After the success of the SharePoint Saturdays in the US, the free educational SharePoint Saturday event has finally arrived in sunny Perth. Seven Sigma has sponsored the production of the showbags for this event.

It will be a full day with speakers from US and interstate as well as local and ending with the famous SharePint. Free breakfast and lunch will be provided for the day. A Speaker Dinner has also been organised.

The event contains 24 sessions divided into 3 streams:

• 200 – IT Pro
• 300 – Information Worker
• 400 – Developer

Seven Sigma’s experienced Peter Chow and Paul Culmsee will be up on the podium to impart pearls of wisdom to all.

Peter will be presenting Integrating SharePoint With Real Time Performance Data in the IT Pro stream. Peter will present an approach to integrating real-time performance data from OSIsoft’s PI system with an ITIL inspired IT Portal using SQL Server Reporting Services.

Paul’s presentation will be in the Information Worker stream and is titled Wicked Problems & SharePoint. This session introduces the concept and characteristics of wicked problems, why SharePoint projects are predisposed to falling foul of them and why traditional project management and governance approaches can in fact make the situation far worse. The session will also reveal the *one* best-practice that should be adopted before any other best-practice, with a simple, yet practical method to do so.

Courtesy of Seven Sigma, Paul and Peter will be giving away spot prizes during their presentation. So make sure you attend.

Special thanks to:

• Dux Raymond Sy and O’Reilly for donating 10 ‘SharePoint for Project Management’ books as giveaway prizes
• Michael Sampson and Apress for donating 10 ‘SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration” books as giveaway prizes and discount vouchers for the book and workshop
• Brett Lonsdale and Manning Publications for donating 5 ‘Developers Guide to the Business Data Catalog’ and discount vouchers for all Lightning Tools’ products
• Bjorn Furuknap for his first issue of SP2010, a compilation of a series of 6 issues, FREE.

For more information on SharePoint Saturday Perth check out http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/perth