Great Turn-Out at the Toronto SharePoint Camp
These types of events have often been very technically focused, so I wasn’t sure how many people would turn out for my sessions on “Mind Mapping Tools for the Information Architect” and “Effective Requirements Gathering Workshops – How to organize and run them”. I was pleasantly surprised when my room filled up nicely (between 40 - 60 people at each session), with quite a few staying for both.
I attended some really interesting sessions as well:
- MOSS Search: Why it’s not enough to just turn it on by Nadeem Mitha
- Effective Deployment of SharePoint Publishing Sites by Ivan Neganov
- Architecture into Implementation: The practical limits of people and SharePoint by Eli Robillard
For those who are looking to download my presentations, they are at the following link:
The items that begin with “Ruven Gotz” are the actual presentations. The rest are PDF’s of Mind Maps that I used as examples.
For more on my demo of Balsamiq Mockups, see the Balsamiq site: http://www.balsamiq.com
Congratulations to Eli Robillard and Bill Brockbank (and a ton of other volunteers) for putting together a great event. There were well over 200 attendees and I heard a lot of positive comments from a number of “Happy Campers”.
January 26th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Your session on Mind Mapping was fantastic Ruven! I am sure almost all of us learned some new techniques for dealing with client requirements, taxonomy building, and working out shifting details like the navigation of a portal. Mind Mapping and the Mind Manager tool you demonstrated will certainly help save tons of time for me personally in the future.
I am sure the requirements gathering presentation was also extremely good and will no doubt review the materials on the SharePoint Camp website when they are up (if not already)
Thanks again,
Richard Harbridge
January 26th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Hey Ruven,
I was just reading over your slides for requirements gathering session. Some interesting and good points outlined in it, I wish I could have seen it!
If you plan to do any presentations on the near future let me know, it would be interesting to hear more on how you deal with analysis, planning and communication issues, and common client scenarios.
Richard Harbridge
January 26th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Hi Richard,
I’ll be presenting an almost identical session in San Diego at the SharePoint Best Practices conference from Feb 2 - 4. A bit short notice, but it would be cool if you could make it.
-Ruven
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