7. How I became a Power User
1995 – Started programming in Visual Basic 4
1998 – Created solutions using C, C++, ASP 2.0 etc.
2002 – Started with ASP.NET (C# mainly). Developed prototype
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solutions for SharePoint
2004 – Wrote a development course on SharePoint 2003 and taught it
2007 – Started with no-code development technologies and became a
Power User evangelist (trainer, consultant, writer, etc.). Never looked
back since then
10. Information Workers and Power Users
Information Worker / End User –
A person who uses information to assist in making decisions or taking actions
Power Users –
Computer user who uses advanced features of programs which are not used by the
average user (information worker)
The focus of this presentation is on :
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Power Users
11. Power Users also known as -
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No-code developers
Citizen developers
Enlightened users ;-)
21. Questions to ask yourself
Correct questions
What do our users need?
What does our business need?
What’s the return on investment long term for those solutions?
Who is going to maintain it?
Incorrect questions
What can SharePoint do?
How much is the initial cost of the solution?
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42. Workflow Manager 1.0
SharePoint 2013 workflow processing moved to Workflow Manager (WM)
Workflow no longer runs in the SharePoint content farm / servers
SharePoint farm & Workflow Manager farm can be on same /
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different servers
48. What will happen to my workflows when we upgrade
from SharePoint 2010 to 2013?
They will get transferred as SharePoint
2010 workflows
You can modify them with almost* the
same type of environment as in 2010
* With the added ability to use copy/paste functions
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49. Copying a workflow to another List or Site
Save as workflow template
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Export to Visio
Copy / Paste stages
66. Questions?
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Editor's Notes
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Don’t try to go for Everything at once. It’s been a recipe for failure for many orgs
Easy to maintain – requirements change much more often than we would like them to
SharePoint as a platform. Talk about Benefits, not Features to internal customers (end users)
Imagine using Windows without any applications.. That’s how SharePoint is when it’s first turned On
Most can be developed as no-code solutions