Properly designing SharePoint-based solutions - guidlines for business analysts

Agenda & Timeline

5:30 - 5:50 - Meet & Mingle (over pizza)

5:50 - 6:10 - Introductions

6:10 - 6:25 - Mini-presentation

6:30 - 7:30 - Main Presentation

Mini Presentation- Peter Newhook

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Main Presentation - Nimrod Geva

Properly designing SharePoint based solutions

Guidelines for business analysts new to SharePoint.

This session is for business analysts that are required to design SharePoint-based solutions. When you design a solution you must be aware of SharePoint's key features and structures along with SharePoint's limitations so that you won't design something that later on will be too hard to implement, or worse - too hard to to update/customize (these are the "hidden costs" of a badly-designed solution). We will look at examples of functional specification documents for several SharePoint solutions/products that I have designed, along with the end results.

Nimrod Geva - Bio

For the past 6 years I've been designing SharePoint-based solutions as KWizCom's Product Group Manager. Before that I worked for Microsoft as META (Microsoft Education Technological Advisor), designing and architecting SharePoint-based solutions for Education sector customers (Higher Education and K-12).

Peter Newhook - Bio

Peter Newhook is a Business Analyst at Cineplex Entertainment LP in Toronto. He has been working with SharePoint for about three years, and recently was part of a team that migrated from SharePoint 2007 to 2010. Most of Peter's SharePoint work revolves around InfoPath and SharePoint Designer workflows.