Session: SharePoint 2010 Killer App: Who let the content out?

“Despite its integration and collaboration ascendency, SharePoint lives in an Enterprise ecosystem where the effort to expose and integrate with the many existing content silos is still just too great. Well, help is at hand. I will cover what form this help takes in SharePoint 2010, how to prepare for it, how to beat your recalcitrant suppliers over the head, what it delivers and what it doesn’t.

I’ll do this while avoiding many of the boring technical bits and trying not to use the word ‘standard’ too many times.”

Target Audience: IT Pros, Decision Makers and Architects (only the one trekkie badge).

Seven Sigma Business Solutions is a Perth, West Australian, strategic advisory and sensemaking practice, specialising in SharePoint and Dialogue Mapping. Seven Sigma is uniquely skilled in the discipline of Dialogue Mapping, the only recognised Cognexus Designated Partner in the world. This partnership will now be open to New Zealand through Knowledge Cue. Seven Sigma director Paul Culmsee is a well-known figure in SharePoint planning and governance via his Cleverworkarounds.com web site. Knowledge Cue will provide introductory Issue Mapping Courses and Training in New Zealand in the coming months.

Knowledge Cue specialises in SharePoint planning, architecture and training in New Zealand and with their training partnership with Combined Knowledge Asia Pacific provide end to end SharePoint training solutions in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore , Hong Kong  and Malaysia.

For more information please contact sharepoint@knowledgecue.co.nz

Seven Sigma specializes in the “people” side of SharePoint, using tools and methods that help a diverse group develop the shared understanding and commitment to seeing their investment succeed.

Teaming up with our partners at DebateGraph, Seven Sigma’s DebateGraph WebPart is a free tool that represents an experiment in meeting the goal of truly “living” document that tries to demystify SharePoint governance in a novel way.

Place the web part on any SharePoint site and view our latest group-thinking on this critical, yet misunderstood topic.

Key features and benefits of the Seven Sigma DebateGraph webpart:

• Unique method to explore complex, interrelated topics in an intuitive way.
• Leverage the DebateGraph argument rating and visualisation engine to validate arguments on merit
• Promotes shared understanding of SharePoint governance among all participants of your project.
• Augment your own governance planning within your organisation.
• Simple to install, deploy and configure.
• Display any of the hundreds of excellent maps on the Debategraph site inside your portal
• Never stale every time your site loads, the latest “thinking” is displayed.
• Directly contribute to the governance map for the benefit of all.
• Create your own Debategraph maps and render them inside SharePoint.

More on this project to come.

For those who don’t mind a bit of travelling in their work, the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference will be the place to be in April.

This 3 day conference will be hosted by Combined Knowledge and boasts of 75 breakout sessions, all of which will be recorded and dvds sent out post conference. It promises not to be a rehash of the Las Vegas conference and definitely will contain new content. So fear not, SharePoint experts, you will not be sitting through endless hours of Las Vegas regurgitations.

As the name suggests, it is dedicated to SharePoint with 55 expert speakers from Microssoft and other well known companies, one of which is Seven Sigma.

Seven Sigma’s very own Paul Culmsee, now a seasoned presenter, made a great impression on the SharePoint community with his successful presentations last year in San Diego, Washington DC, Wellington, New Zealand, Perth SharePoint User Group and the Business Analysts World Conference in Perth. His "How to Avoid SharePoint Becoming a Wicked Problem" and "Think Like a CFO: Techniques to Quantify SharePoint ROI"; "Governance – The Other 90%" co-presented with Ruven Gotz, and "SharePoint for the Really Really Really Going Looking" co-presented with Peter, were all very well received.

Next year, at the 2010 Evolution conference in London, Paul has decided to join the crowd and attend as many sessions as possible as well as presenting a session.

If you’ve attended Paul’s wicked problem sessions before and are thinking to yourself "I’ve seen Paul perform and I’ve downloaded his demo slides, not to mention nominated his slide for Slideshare Zeitgeist 2009 Community Awards, so I’ll give his session a rest this time." Think again! You will do yourself an injustice with that kind of thinking.

Paul, as you know, is very passionate when it comes to SharePoint and wicked problems, collectively and separately. This passion leads him, not to rest on his laurels, but to always finding ways to better improve his work (in this case, his presentation) with more information, more scenarios of real world application, more thought provoking titbits, etc, etc, for you all to digest.

For those who are still undecided on whether "to attend or not to attend" this conference – register now. You will be meeting great SharePoint minds to better assist you in your work. Click on http://www.sharepointevolutionconference.com  for more reasons why you should attend this conference.

Meet you all at the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference in April

Cheers