Consumption of Cloud Technologies / #Microsoft #Office365 is something everyone ‘craves’. After all, it's the physical measurement of adoption. In this session Tracy will cover the following:
· Common pitfalls
· Prerequisites for success
· Steps to take to ensure adoption > consumption
You will leave this session with insights into the mistakes we've made in the past and a clear vision for the road ahead.
14 March 2019
Without Change, There Would Be No Butterflies: Creating an End User Adoption ...Heather Newman
Consumers expect a new relationship with businesses, which means a new way to work - quickly and easily. Business transformation and metamorphosis is at the heart of every business.
Join Heather Newman, Co-Founder, Chief Evangelist and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she shows the 10 steps in creating an end-user adoption campaign using Microsoft Teams and Planner.
Office 365 Tour South Africa - Port Elizabeth - Without Change, There Would B...Heather Newman
We all want to be quicker, more productive and collaborate rapidly on any device at any time. The good news is that our technology continues to innovate at the speed of light. The bad news is true adoption is sorely lacking, we often stick to what we know.
Join Heather Newman, Microsoft MVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she uses real-world use cases to provide you the blueprint for a metamorphic change in employee productivity and simple tips and tricks for using Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Planner on the go.
You’ll leave this session with a clear understanding of how your employees can leverage both Microsoft Teams and Planner together with OneNote, OneDrive and SharePoint.
Shazam!
The Team Playbook: A Recipe for Healthy TeamsAtlassian
The benefits of a high performing team are endless. They are autonomous, empowered, responsible and effective. At Atlassian, we've pioneered the Team Playbook, which is our way of scaling teams by getting smarter, not bigger, and driving a culture of continual improvement. Utilised by hundreds of teams within Atlassian, we've made our secret sauce not so secret. Don't come to this session for a lesson on theory...come to this session to hear the philosophies and principles of the Team Playbook from Dr. Dom, our internal team doctor, and insightful and practical stories from Georgie, one of our users of the Team Playbook. You'll leave this session invigorated, engaged and ready to take action.
Dom Price, Head of R&D and Work Futurist, Atlassian
Georgie Bottomley, Senior UX Research, Atlassian
How to be a Successful Data PM by Zillow Product LeadersProduct School
Main Takeaways:
-Data Product Managers treat data as a product
-Data & AI Fluency is an important core skills
-Be a great storyteller
-Understand Data Product Lifecycle
-Data Product Success Metrics
Without Change, There Would Be No Butterflies: Creating an End User Adoption ...Heather Newman
Consumers expect a new relationship with businesses, which means a new way to work - quickly and easily. Business transformation and metamorphosis is at the heart of every business.
Join Heather Newman, Co-Founder, Chief Evangelist and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she shows the 10 steps in creating an end-user adoption campaign using Microsoft Teams and Planner.
Office 365 Tour South Africa - Port Elizabeth - Without Change, There Would B...Heather Newman
We all want to be quicker, more productive and collaborate rapidly on any device at any time. The good news is that our technology continues to innovate at the speed of light. The bad news is true adoption is sorely lacking, we often stick to what we know.
Join Heather Newman, Microsoft MVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she uses real-world use cases to provide you the blueprint for a metamorphic change in employee productivity and simple tips and tricks for using Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Planner on the go.
You’ll leave this session with a clear understanding of how your employees can leverage both Microsoft Teams and Planner together with OneNote, OneDrive and SharePoint.
Shazam!
The Team Playbook: A Recipe for Healthy TeamsAtlassian
The benefits of a high performing team are endless. They are autonomous, empowered, responsible and effective. At Atlassian, we've pioneered the Team Playbook, which is our way of scaling teams by getting smarter, not bigger, and driving a culture of continual improvement. Utilised by hundreds of teams within Atlassian, we've made our secret sauce not so secret. Don't come to this session for a lesson on theory...come to this session to hear the philosophies and principles of the Team Playbook from Dr. Dom, our internal team doctor, and insightful and practical stories from Georgie, one of our users of the Team Playbook. You'll leave this session invigorated, engaged and ready to take action.
Dom Price, Head of R&D and Work Futurist, Atlassian
Georgie Bottomley, Senior UX Research, Atlassian
How to be a Successful Data PM by Zillow Product LeadersProduct School
Main Takeaways:
-Data Product Managers treat data as a product
-Data & AI Fluency is an important core skills
-Be a great storyteller
-Understand Data Product Lifecycle
-Data Product Success Metrics
When it comes to building a product, we all know the rule: build, test, iterate as quickly as possible to validate your customer's needs. It's all well and good, but how do you do this when you deal with risk-averse enterprise customers? How do you keep iterating rapidly whilst not disrupting their use of the product? Mads will discuss lessons learned on the journey from designing PowerPoints as MVPs to real-time interactive dashboards.
Feature Prioritization Techniques for an Agile PMs by Microsoft PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-PMs don't need a lot of data points to prioritize the features for the upcoming sprint. They just need to identify the relevant one's.
-PMs should be skilled to strike the balance between agility in making decisions and accuracy of perceived outcomes
-PMs should be able to prioritize the feature requests with minimum data points available and optimum techniques
Mentorship - From Both Sides of the Table by Waymo Product Leader.pdfProduct School
Main takeaways:
-Why mentorship/menteeship is impactful, important, and even critical (for both sides and for companies/groups both parties are in)
-Types of mentorship
How to start mentorship and menteeship, suggested ground rules.
-What makes for effective mentor-mentee relationships - suggested expectations and best practices to maintain relationships from both sides.
-FAQs (my company doesn't have channels for this, how do I broach harder topics, how many mentors should I have, where do I find mentors, what if the mentorship relationship isn't effective?)
Confluence Insiders Webinar: Four ways every team can collaborate in ConfluenceAtlassian
In 30 minutes we’ll focus on four ways you and your team can start using Confluence more effectively based on best practices developed here at Atlassian.
We’ll show you how you and your coworkers can use Confluence to centralize all of your team’s important information. Specifically, we’ll focus on how you can:
1.Run effective meetings
2. Store and share files
3. Make decisions without meetings, and
4. Share web links to spark new ideas
You’ve got the solution, now let us show you the path to effective collaboration that results in work getting done.
5 Ways to Grow Faster Through User RetentionAutopilot
Try Autopilot free for 30 days: https://autopilothq.com/free-trial.html
Your churn rate is arguably the most important metric for measuring growth. With the rise of single click sign ups and frictionless purchasing power, companies today are having a harder time keeping customers than they are acquiring them—meaning a focus on retention is more paramount than ever for any growth model. Behavior-based emails and in-product engagement through a marketing automation tool is a scalable way to automate retention initiatives, increase customer satisfaction, reduce time to close, and ultimately grow faster.
This is the presentation from our first London workshop featuring Martyn Davies (Programme Director at Ignite Accelerator), Guy Marion (CMO & Growth at Autopilot) and Dylan Damsma (Customer Enablement Manager at Autopilot).
You'll learn 5 proven approaches for retaining customers through automation, including how to:
-Onboard and reactivate new users through product and timed messages
-Enable inactive or struggling users
-Reactivate users who have not logged in for 30+ days (SaaS example)
-Reactivate past buyers who have not purchased for 90 days (E-commerce example)
-Educate customers through best practice content and training
You'll learn:
- How to get buy-in from executives and stakeholders for user research
- How to choose lightweight yet effective research methods
- How to document your results to prove ROI
Main Takeaways:
- Understanding how product functions in different organizations and leveraging that to take the next step
- Working within a product team
- Taking core product principals and making them your own
Foundational Frameworks a Perspective on PM by Lyft Product LeaderProduct School
Main takeaways:
-Why tech PM have it worse than non-Tech PMs in the technical PM roles?
-You will learn that PM is indeed A Profession of the failures, for the failures…. And yes, the pun is intended!
-You find it hard to understand or define PM? Well, that's exactly why you should join it! OR Illusive definition of PM as a profession is its greatest strength
Launch best practices for B2B and B2B2C products between 1 - 50 million euro ARR.
1. Switch gears
2. Launch principles
3. Solving for who, what and how
4. Celebrating launch
The 5 Characters of Product Management with Former Etsy PMProduct School
Etsy's Product Manager, Jason Shen, talked about the 5 Characters of Product Management (and How to Hire for Them).
Product managers are one of the toughest roles to define and hire for, in part because depending on the company and the project, they perform a wide variety of activities. It can be helpful to think of the role as five characters — the Explorer, the Analyst, the Planner, the Advocate, and the Field Trip Chaperone.
In this session led by two experienced product managers from Constant Contact, a leading SaaS company, you will learn about how a Product Manager operates when they have a SaaS-based product. We will compare product management for a SaaS product with that of packaged or on premise software. The opportunities and challenges presented by SaaS products will be explored. The use of web analytics software to understand customer usage will also be discussed using real-world examples.
About Tom Mignosa and Mike Byerly
Tom and Mike are both long-time product management professionals who have over a dozen combined years of experience at Constant Contact, a pioneer in SaaS applications for SMBs.
Customer Engagement Platform: Smarter Marketing for Better ResultsMarketo
Marketo's Senior Product Marketing Manager, Brian Glover, reviews the concept of smarter marketing for better results with Marketo's Customer Engagement Platform.
Transforming Organizations – from the Perspective of a Technical Mind #GHC15Intuit Inc.
Intuit's Annette Beatty talks about transforming organizations from an engineering mindset at the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference.
Better Software, Florence'15
- Benefits of the processes visualization in an organization
- How to synchronize teams, get all departments at the same page and understand the responsibility
- How to start: build a Process Map step-by-step at the Process Visualization workshop (phases, people, timing)
Three core lessons I learned in Product Management after coming from HR and Operations background. Presented during the first Product PH Meetup.
This is a very basic deck on Product Management meant to just give people a glimpse on what I believe are the important things in succeeding in Product.
For other articles I wrote: https://medium.com/all-things-digital
For Product Philippines: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProductPH
The fundamental problem of a Product Manager is identifying what to build and knowing when to build it. In this session, Joshua will talk about how to build the structure that allows you to identify what product to build, how to objectively justify these product priorities based on business realities, and how to communicate these priorities to stakeholders within your organization.
SharePoint "Moneyball" - The Art and Science of Winning the SharePoint Metric...Susan Hanley
Measurement is not just about looking for a bottom-line result to justify investments. It’s also a tool to provide feedback about where the organization is along the road to successfully leveraging investments in SharePoint and the business outcomes it provides. At every stage in the development of your solution, metrics provide a valuable means for focusing attention on desired behaviors and results. This presentation showcases a practical and realistic framework for SharePoint metrics based on real world examples and successes.
How to be a Digital Products Ninja by ServiceNow Sr. PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Learn how to be an expert product Ninja in the continuously changing digital world
- Learn about top 7 productivity hacks for Product Managers
- Best practices and framework for the product manager’s toolbox
Satyam Kantamneni, former Managing Director of UX at Citrix, explains how to grow and nurture your UX team to meet business objectives. Based on 15 years experience across Citrix, Paypal, and other companies.
You'll learn:
- When to hire generalists vs. specialists.
- How to drive business outcomes from day 1.
- How to evaluate design culture as you build it.
- How to build a long-term governance framework.
ACCELERATING EMPLOYEE ONBOARDING & YOUR HYBRID WORKPLACE WITH MICROSOFT 365Richard Harbridge
As organizations begin to adjust for a post-pandemic world, many are looking to prepare for and manage the explosive growth expected in the months and years ahead. From skills development and digital excellence to process automation and connecting employees to the resources they need at the right time, the challenges ahead are considerable. Organizations are looking to better leverage Microsoft 365 and their digital workplace investments to support this talent growth by accelerating employee onboarding and digital excellence around hybrid workplace practices for flexible work and remote work.
Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace, as he explores how the world of digital work has changed, how the way we work together has changed, and how SharePoint, Teams, Yammer, and more can be used to improve the onboarding and hybrid work experience.
In this deck I discuss the evolution of adoption best practices for Microsoft 365, real work employee wellness best practices and using Microsoft Teams, Power Platform and the resources from adoption.microsoft.com to speed value to your business.
Microsoft | Office 365 - Communicate, engage and collaborate better than everTracy Van der Schyff
Delivered for Modern Workplace Conference Exponant / QBS 25 September 2019
Overview of Office 365, productivity gains and insights on digital literacy and training. Demo of Microsoft Teams
When it comes to building a product, we all know the rule: build, test, iterate as quickly as possible to validate your customer's needs. It's all well and good, but how do you do this when you deal with risk-averse enterprise customers? How do you keep iterating rapidly whilst not disrupting their use of the product? Mads will discuss lessons learned on the journey from designing PowerPoints as MVPs to real-time interactive dashboards.
Feature Prioritization Techniques for an Agile PMs by Microsoft PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
-PMs don't need a lot of data points to prioritize the features for the upcoming sprint. They just need to identify the relevant one's.
-PMs should be skilled to strike the balance between agility in making decisions and accuracy of perceived outcomes
-PMs should be able to prioritize the feature requests with minimum data points available and optimum techniques
Mentorship - From Both Sides of the Table by Waymo Product Leader.pdfProduct School
Main takeaways:
-Why mentorship/menteeship is impactful, important, and even critical (for both sides and for companies/groups both parties are in)
-Types of mentorship
How to start mentorship and menteeship, suggested ground rules.
-What makes for effective mentor-mentee relationships - suggested expectations and best practices to maintain relationships from both sides.
-FAQs (my company doesn't have channels for this, how do I broach harder topics, how many mentors should I have, where do I find mentors, what if the mentorship relationship isn't effective?)
Confluence Insiders Webinar: Four ways every team can collaborate in ConfluenceAtlassian
In 30 minutes we’ll focus on four ways you and your team can start using Confluence more effectively based on best practices developed here at Atlassian.
We’ll show you how you and your coworkers can use Confluence to centralize all of your team’s important information. Specifically, we’ll focus on how you can:
1.Run effective meetings
2. Store and share files
3. Make decisions without meetings, and
4. Share web links to spark new ideas
You’ve got the solution, now let us show you the path to effective collaboration that results in work getting done.
5 Ways to Grow Faster Through User RetentionAutopilot
Try Autopilot free for 30 days: https://autopilothq.com/free-trial.html
Your churn rate is arguably the most important metric for measuring growth. With the rise of single click sign ups and frictionless purchasing power, companies today are having a harder time keeping customers than they are acquiring them—meaning a focus on retention is more paramount than ever for any growth model. Behavior-based emails and in-product engagement through a marketing automation tool is a scalable way to automate retention initiatives, increase customer satisfaction, reduce time to close, and ultimately grow faster.
This is the presentation from our first London workshop featuring Martyn Davies (Programme Director at Ignite Accelerator), Guy Marion (CMO & Growth at Autopilot) and Dylan Damsma (Customer Enablement Manager at Autopilot).
You'll learn 5 proven approaches for retaining customers through automation, including how to:
-Onboard and reactivate new users through product and timed messages
-Enable inactive or struggling users
-Reactivate users who have not logged in for 30+ days (SaaS example)
-Reactivate past buyers who have not purchased for 90 days (E-commerce example)
-Educate customers through best practice content and training
You'll learn:
- How to get buy-in from executives and stakeholders for user research
- How to choose lightweight yet effective research methods
- How to document your results to prove ROI
Main Takeaways:
- Understanding how product functions in different organizations and leveraging that to take the next step
- Working within a product team
- Taking core product principals and making them your own
Foundational Frameworks a Perspective on PM by Lyft Product LeaderProduct School
Main takeaways:
-Why tech PM have it worse than non-Tech PMs in the technical PM roles?
-You will learn that PM is indeed A Profession of the failures, for the failures…. And yes, the pun is intended!
-You find it hard to understand or define PM? Well, that's exactly why you should join it! OR Illusive definition of PM as a profession is its greatest strength
Launch best practices for B2B and B2B2C products between 1 - 50 million euro ARR.
1. Switch gears
2. Launch principles
3. Solving for who, what and how
4. Celebrating launch
The 5 Characters of Product Management with Former Etsy PMProduct School
Etsy's Product Manager, Jason Shen, talked about the 5 Characters of Product Management (and How to Hire for Them).
Product managers are one of the toughest roles to define and hire for, in part because depending on the company and the project, they perform a wide variety of activities. It can be helpful to think of the role as five characters — the Explorer, the Analyst, the Planner, the Advocate, and the Field Trip Chaperone.
In this session led by two experienced product managers from Constant Contact, a leading SaaS company, you will learn about how a Product Manager operates when they have a SaaS-based product. We will compare product management for a SaaS product with that of packaged or on premise software. The opportunities and challenges presented by SaaS products will be explored. The use of web analytics software to understand customer usage will also be discussed using real-world examples.
About Tom Mignosa and Mike Byerly
Tom and Mike are both long-time product management professionals who have over a dozen combined years of experience at Constant Contact, a pioneer in SaaS applications for SMBs.
Customer Engagement Platform: Smarter Marketing for Better ResultsMarketo
Marketo's Senior Product Marketing Manager, Brian Glover, reviews the concept of smarter marketing for better results with Marketo's Customer Engagement Platform.
Transforming Organizations – from the Perspective of a Technical Mind #GHC15Intuit Inc.
Intuit's Annette Beatty talks about transforming organizations from an engineering mindset at the 2015 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference.
Better Software, Florence'15
- Benefits of the processes visualization in an organization
- How to synchronize teams, get all departments at the same page and understand the responsibility
- How to start: build a Process Map step-by-step at the Process Visualization workshop (phases, people, timing)
Three core lessons I learned in Product Management after coming from HR and Operations background. Presented during the first Product PH Meetup.
This is a very basic deck on Product Management meant to just give people a glimpse on what I believe are the important things in succeeding in Product.
For other articles I wrote: https://medium.com/all-things-digital
For Product Philippines: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProductPH
The fundamental problem of a Product Manager is identifying what to build and knowing when to build it. In this session, Joshua will talk about how to build the structure that allows you to identify what product to build, how to objectively justify these product priorities based on business realities, and how to communicate these priorities to stakeholders within your organization.
SharePoint "Moneyball" - The Art and Science of Winning the SharePoint Metric...Susan Hanley
Measurement is not just about looking for a bottom-line result to justify investments. It’s also a tool to provide feedback about where the organization is along the road to successfully leveraging investments in SharePoint and the business outcomes it provides. At every stage in the development of your solution, metrics provide a valuable means for focusing attention on desired behaviors and results. This presentation showcases a practical and realistic framework for SharePoint metrics based on real world examples and successes.
How to be a Digital Products Ninja by ServiceNow Sr. PMProduct School
Main takeaways:
- Learn how to be an expert product Ninja in the continuously changing digital world
- Learn about top 7 productivity hacks for Product Managers
- Best practices and framework for the product manager’s toolbox
Satyam Kantamneni, former Managing Director of UX at Citrix, explains how to grow and nurture your UX team to meet business objectives. Based on 15 years experience across Citrix, Paypal, and other companies.
You'll learn:
- When to hire generalists vs. specialists.
- How to drive business outcomes from day 1.
- How to evaluate design culture as you build it.
- How to build a long-term governance framework.
ACCELERATING EMPLOYEE ONBOARDING & YOUR HYBRID WORKPLACE WITH MICROSOFT 365Richard Harbridge
As organizations begin to adjust for a post-pandemic world, many are looking to prepare for and manage the explosive growth expected in the months and years ahead. From skills development and digital excellence to process automation and connecting employees to the resources they need at the right time, the challenges ahead are considerable. Organizations are looking to better leverage Microsoft 365 and their digital workplace investments to support this talent growth by accelerating employee onboarding and digital excellence around hybrid workplace practices for flexible work and remote work.
Join Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace, as he explores how the world of digital work has changed, how the way we work together has changed, and how SharePoint, Teams, Yammer, and more can be used to improve the onboarding and hybrid work experience.
In this deck I discuss the evolution of adoption best practices for Microsoft 365, real work employee wellness best practices and using Microsoft Teams, Power Platform and the resources from adoption.microsoft.com to speed value to your business.
Microsoft | Office 365 - Communicate, engage and collaborate better than everTracy Van der Schyff
Delivered for Modern Workplace Conference Exponant / QBS 25 September 2019
Overview of Office 365, productivity gains and insights on digital literacy and training. Demo of Microsoft Teams
Proven Strategies for increasing Adoption and EngagementChristian Buckley
While Office 365 continues to grow at a rapid rate, adoption can be slow and difficult without a strategy in place. This presentation covers a number of different topics that all have an impact on end user adoption and engagement. This presentation shares: a "go to market" strategy for a successful Office 365 deployment; productivity features that will enhance adoption; strategies for keeping end users engaged; how to track usage and activity so you can measure your success; and touches on many of the productivity features (Groups, Delve, Yammer, co-editing, etc). The primary focus, however, is on the management/ongoing educational aspects of a successful deployment.
Enhancing Microsoft Teams To Build A Better Digital WorkplaceRichard Harbridge
Today, many organizations have brought the intranet, or the hub of their digital workplace, into Microsoft Teams via Viva Connections. But what else are organizations doing to further enhance, improve upon, and embrace Teams as a hub for not just teamwork, but corporate communication, social collaboration, networking, and more?
Join Microsoft MVP and 2toLead CTO Richard Harbridge as he shares the unique opportunity Teams apps and solutions provide. Be prepared to explore examples, patterns, and practices for how lines of business in any organization can leverage, extend, and integrate Teams to create business-oriented solutions.
5 ways digital work management is driving a new productivity revolution📈 Aaron Ripper
In this presentation we will show you how digital work management is driving a new productivity revolution.
Using Monday.com you can streamline and automate your processes whilst encouraging collaborations between teams or departments whether remote or office based.
Enable Technologies are the UK partner for Monday.com and we are here to help companies through their journey.
If you would like to know more about Monday.com feel free to connect with me on linkedin or email aripper@enable.services
Accelerating Employee Onboarding & Your Hybrid Workplace With Microsoft 365Richard Harbridge
Join us and learn how you can deepen your existing technology investment to support employee onboarding and your hybrid workplace.
A whopping 73% of employees want flexible remote work options to stay, says Microsoft in their latest report, The Next Great Disruption is Hybrid Work. This makes tailoring your employee onboarding to support the hybrid working model essential to the success of your team!
As such, many organizations are making the adjustments for a post-pandemic world and looking to prepare for and manage the explosive growth expected in the months and years ahead. But, from skills development and digital excellence to process automation and connecting employees to the resources they need at the right time, the challenges ahead are considerable.
Join LiveTiles along with LiveTiles Partner, 2toLead, CTO and Microsoft MVP, Richard Harbridge on Tuesday, May 11, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM EST as he explores:
How the “workplace” has changed
Why digital excellence should be prioritized in onboarding, especially when supporting hybrid work and the remote workforce
Ways organizations are looking to better leverage Microsoft 365 and their digital workplace investments to support this talent growth
How SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, and more can be used with support from LiveTiles solutions (pictured below) to improve the employee onboarding and hybrid work experience
New technologies are changing the way people work with each other, their organization’s partners, and their customers. Employee expectations have grown and are being met by innovation that delivers greater accessibility, lower costs, and faster results. The catch? Organizations and employees need to understand, adopt, and use these technologies or risk being outpaced by new competitors or changes in the marketplace.
Join Richard Harbridge in an insightful discussion as he explores why collaboration can be challenging in organizations today, what we can do about it together.
SharePoint Saturday Cape Town 2019 - - Without Change, There Would Be No Butt...Heather Newman
We all want to be quicker, more productive and collaborate rapidly on any device at any time. The good news is that our technology continues to innovate at the speed of light. The bad news is true adoption is sorely lacking, we often stick to what we know.
Join Heather Newman, Microsoft MVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she uses real-world use cases to provide you the blueprint for a metamorphic change in employee productivity and simple tips and tricks for using Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Planner on the go.
You’ll leave this session with a clear understanding of how your employees can leverage both Microsoft Teams and Planner together with OneNote, OneDrive and SharePoint.
Shazam!
SharePoint Saturday London Without Change, There - Would Be No Butterflies: ...Heather Newman
Without Change, There Would Be No Butterflies: 4 Steps to Business Transformation Consumers expect a new relationship with businesses, which means internal teams need a new way to work – one enabling them to access information quickly and collaborate rapidly on any device at any time. Business transformation is at the heart of every business especially inside everyday processes and driving innovation with purchased productivity tools. The good news is many companies are turning to Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365. The bad news is adoption is sorely lacking. The culprit? Change management. Recent studies find more than half of companies point to poor change management as the top reason for their SharePoint deployments failing. Join Heather Newman, Co-Founder, Chief Evangelist and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she uses real-world use cases to provide you the blueprint for a successful change management project. You’ll leave this session with a clear understanding of the pitfalls to avoid and proven tips to jumpstart business transformation and how to implement with your change management initiatives.
Office 365 Adoption Guide (63 pages) (2016 version) Daniel Chang
This guide has been created for organizations looking at the
most effective ways to leverage their investment in Office 365.
It is meant to be used as a step-by-step guide, whereby you
can ensure that your organization can first identify, and then
execute specific tasks that will have the greatest positive effect
on your organization.
And remember, you are not in this alone. There are thousands
of organizations just like yours who are currently launching
Office 365 and you can connect with them in this community.
Change the way you work, because the way you work impacts
the work you do.
Digital Workplace Conference NZ - Microsoft Teams and Planner Heather Newman
We all want to be quicker, more productive and collaborate rapidly on any device at any time. The good news is that our technology continues to innovate at the speed of light. The bad news is true adoption is sorely lacking, we often stick to what we know. Join Heather Newman, Microsoft MVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Content Panda, as she uses real-world use cases to provide you the blueprint for a metamorphic change in employee productivity and simple tips and tricks for using Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Planner on the go. You’ll leave this session with a clear understanding of how your employees can leverage both Microsoft Teams and Planner together with OneNote, OneDrive and SharePoint. Shazam!
Project productivity is essential in building and maintaining a company, here are three ways on how the digital workplace can help you improve the project management in your organization.
Optimizing Organizational Knowledge With Project Cortex & The Microsoft Digit...Richard Harbridge
Today, organizations can go beyond the intranet and connect people to interactive expertise within the organization and personalized insight through an integrated suite of Microsoft 365 applications.
Based on significant improvements in artificial intelligence (AI), real behavior-based data based on the Microsoft Graph and Azure innovation such as improved language understanding, organizations today can provide contextual and dynamic topic cards, expertise mapping, pages, topic centers, and more. Powered by image tagging, form processing, document understanding, and machine teaching; organization content and documents are optimized for better compliance, processing, and discovery.
Join LiveTiles, along with Richard Harbridge, a Microsoft MVP and internationally recognized expert on Microsoft 365 and the Digital Workplace, who will share:
Best practices on modern knowledge management
How the continued innovation from Microsoft can be best reconciled with enterprise intranet and digital workplace needs
Future of Designing Collaboration Experiences in Office 365 #sptechconKanwal Khipple
Imagine a future where silo'd departments and legacy processes don’t stand in our way. Today’s collaboration needs go from complex collaboration portals to simple innovation hubs and most importantly need to work for our devices. Designing portals to enable a new kind of collaboration and communication is an absolute necessity today.For the past couple years, I’ve had the opportunity to study how successful teams collaborate and have helped to transform the way teams work and collaborate together. In this session, I'll share what I’ve learned about making effective cross-discipline collaboration possible, and leave you with actionable approaches you can use to unite your team's communication and collaboration needs.
Session by Dan Holme at our monthly #M365UGZA session:
Everything you need to know about Viva Engage
Viva Engage gives leaders and communicators powerful new tools to reach and engage audiences. Send need-to-know announcements across channels. Humanize leadership with storyline. Listen to and learn from employees with ask-me-anything events. Spark participation with social campaigns. Measure and improve effectiveness with Copilot and analytics including audience sentiment. And bring it all together in leadership corner. Learn how to transform employee engagement, communications, and leadership effectiveness with Dan Holme, a product leader on the Viva Engage team.
Session for ESPC22 - 29 Nov 2022
How autonomy in the modern workplace has changed the way we work, forever (new)
One of my favourite sayings is "Products don't fix problems, people fix problems with products". Might sound like it makes sense, but very few companies are applying this logic. With exponential advancement in technology, we're experiencing unprecedented breakthroughs in our systems, but at the same time our employees are becoming slower and more frustrated while using this technology.
In this session Tracy would cover elements that could be causing this, and possible solutions to overcome and move forward:
· Paying for the mistakes made in the last 20+ years
· Autonomy in the modern workplace
· The era of the digital citizen
· Upgrading your training and support systems
It's not adoption we're after. Usage implies the use of technology, adoption will be the efficient use of technology, what is needed is to create and nurture digital citizens who are responsible and efficient users of the given technologies. Attending this session will change the way you look at the modern workplace.
ESPC20 Improve your Change Management and Adoption Program with Microsoft Res...Tracy Van der Schyff
Session delivered for ESPC20
Improve your Change Management and Adoption program with Microsoft Adoption Resources
With so many dashboards and reports, it's easier than ever to track your Microsoft 365 consumption and adoption, but how do you correct your methods and update your skills?
In this session Tracy will share insights on:
· Using the Microsoft Productivity Score
· Other tools and resources you'll find invaluable in your journey
· The Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist Certification
Many IT Professional job roles now require the knowledge to facilitate change management and adoption, this session is sure to get you started.
Putting the DEV in Citizen DEVeloper with the Microsoft Power Platform
No longer is rapid application development out of reach for non-developers. If you understand the business process well enough and you're affected by the inefficiencies, then you can make a difference. Spending a couple of minutes to build a workflow, once, could save you a couple of minutes, every day of the year. In this session Tracy will share:
· Getting started with Power Automate & Power Apps
· Quick win solutions
· Co-innovation with other Microsoft | Office 365 apps and services
· Supporting your citizen developers
If you're new to the world of workflows, form designers and application builders then this session will open your eyes to opportunities to improve as well as faith in your own abilities to do so.
20201107 Putting the DEV in Citizen DEVeloper with the Microsoft Power PlatformTracy Van der Schyff
Session delivered on 7 November 2020 -Global Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp Ghana
Putting the DEV in Citizen DEVeloper with the Microsoft Power Platform
No longer is rapid application development out of reach for non-developers. If you understand the business process well enough and you're affected by the inefficiencies, then you can make a difference. Spending a couple of minutes to build a workflow, once, could save you a couple of minutes, every day of the year.
In this session Tracy will share:
- Getting started with Power Automate, Power Apps, SharePoint & Microsoft Lists
Quick win solutions
- Co-innovation with other Microsoft | Office 365 apps and services
- Supporting your citizen developers
If you're new to the world of workflows, form designers and application builders then this session will open your eyes to opportunities to improve as well as faith in your own abilities to do so.
Improve Your Change Management And Adoption Program With Microsoft Adoption R...Tracy Van der Schyff
Session delivered at the Microsoft Community BiH Conference - 20 October 2020
SESSION OVERVIEW
With so many dashboards and reports, it's easier than ever to track your Microsoft 365 consumption and adoption, but how do you correct your methods and update your skills?
In this session Tracy will share insights on:
Using the Microsoft Productivity Score
Other tools and resources you'll find invaluable in your journey
The Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist Certification
Many IT Professional job roles now require the knowledge to facilitate change management and adoption, this session is sure to get you started.
BRK20011: Put the DEV in Citizen DEVeloper with Microsoft Power Automate and...Tracy Van der Schyff
Session delivered at Microsoft Ignite The Tour Johannesburg 31/01/2020
No longer is rapid application development out of reach for non-developers. If you understand the business process well enough and you're affected by the inefficiencies, then you can make a difference. Spending a couple of minutes to build a Flow, once, could save you a couple of minutes, every day of the year. In this session Tracy will share:
· Getting started with Flow & PowerApps
· Quick win solutions with Microsoft Flow and PowerApps
· Co-innovation with other Office 365 apps and services
· Licensing Options
If you're new to the world of workflows, form designers and application builders then this session will open your eyes to opportunities to improve as well as faith in your own abilities to do so.
THR10044: Simplify & Accelerate you Microsoft | Office 365 roll outTracy Van der Schyff
Session delivered at Microsoft Ignite the Tour Johannesburg 31/01/2020
Where to start, what to roll out first, how to get employees to use it - it's all pretty confusing right? Let's take a look at simple sure-fire ways of rolling out Microsoft | Office 365 in your company. This session will cover:
· Quick win Apps | ROI
· Change Management and Transparency Prerequisites
· Management buy-in & support
· Keeping up to date
Successful adoption requires so much more than just technical preparation and assigning licenses. But, if you do it right, it should change your company culture into that of a digital first business mindset company.
Session delivered at #MSIgnite Orlando 06/11/2019
With so many new features released on a regular basis it could be overwhelming to get up to speed, and stay up to date. In this session, hear valuable tips and insights on:
· Microsoft Resources to keep your eye on
· Microsoft 365 Learning Pathways
· Building learning into your daily activities
· How to communicate these learnings into the company · Product champions and their responsibilities
· Building cultures of self and lifelong-learning
In this new agile world of ever-changing, always-updating tech you cannot afford to stay behind. Staying relevant is a new skill and should be included in KPIs. Let me show you how.
Session delivered for Modern Workplace Conference Exponant / QBS on 25 September 2019
Overview on the Power Platform, Power BI, Power Apps & Power Automate
#SPC19 Amplify your Digital Creativity with Modern SharePoint SitesTracy Van der Schyff
Session delivered for SPC19 in Vegas #SPC19
Amplify your Digital Creativity with Modern SharePoint Sites
We’ve always wanted to transform SharePoint sites into beautiful creative hubs, and now with the modern sites this is easier than ever before.
In this session Tracy will show you how you can create stunning, responsive sites with SharePoint Communication and Teams Site templates. Session will include an overview and use case for the modern web parts as well as creative inspiration for images and banners.
You'll leave this session informed, empowered and excited to get started.
My session for #MSIgniteTheTour Copenhagen on the 28th of February 2020. #HumansofIT
I truly believe the most important part of inclusion to be self-inclusion. For too many years I put myself down, believing I wasn't good enough, passed up on opportunities. With an imposter spirit inside my head who saw approval & praise as pity. Sound familiar?
I always say that we don't have to be perfect in everything, it's about "surrounding ourselves with people who don't suck at the things we suck at". The #HumansofIT #Community gives us the support we need to overcome these fears and insecurities, we just need to accept the helping hand & learn to be vulnerable. In this session I'll share 7 coping mechanisms that I use to get through every day and keep that negative energy at bay.
Innovation cannot take place in a vacuum, just as our workforce should be diverse, so should our skill sets. The rise of the citizen development era also brings forth the need to understand how workloads integrate and complement each other. Office 365 delivers a vast set of tools to help companies innovate, automate and streamline activities. In this session, Tracy will share guidance on:
How to foster creativity and innovation
Building a self-learning | lifelong learning culture
How to keep up to date
Examples of co-innovation in Office 365
In this session we'll unpack the Office 365 features (apps & services) and see how they complement each other. We'll also take a look at how to enable your citizen developers. This will give your company the competitive advantage and at the same time help build a company culture geared for the future.
#SPSBangalore Keynote: Microsoft | Office 365: The What, How & Why
By now you have an idea of what Microsoft | Office 365 is, but do you understand why it's the best thing you can ever do for your users and how to get there? Tracy will share insights on:
· What: Overview of & business case for apps & services
· How: How to approach the roll-out
· Why: ROI - employees / company culture
The return on investment is SO much greater than just the savings on IT cost of ownership. Once you understand the non-tangible benefits, you'll realize why this will be so much more than an IT project and you'll have ideas on how to get that going in your company.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
2. Tracy van der Schyff @tracyvds
To facilitate the evolution of human capabilities, my passion is to empower people and
therefore training and change management lie close to my heart. My Mission is to
positively impact WHAT and HOW people create, as I believe that what we design /
create, designs / creates us back (Ontological design). It is about enabling others to
serve themselves better, expand their possibilities, increase their capacity to learn, act
more effectively and better design their future.
@tracyvds
#CollabSummit
@NACollabSummit
18. Digital Literacy and the Impact on User Adoption:
https://tracyvanderschyff.com/2017/10/05/digital-literacy-and-the-impact-on-user-adoption/
19. Importance of Executive support in #Office365
#Tech Projects
https://tracyvanderschyff.com/2019/02/03/importance-of-executive-support-in-office365-tech-projects/
22. Healthy Habits
Want #Office365 Consumption? Do these 5 things
https://tracyvanderschyff.com/2019/01/07/want-office365-consumption-do-these-5-things/
Why is it so difficult to get #Office365 fit & healthy?
https://tracyvanderschyff.com/2019/02/24/why-is-it-so-difficult-to-get-office365-fit-healthy/
Fast Track your #Office365 Roll Out
https://tracyvanderschyff.com/2019/01/15/fast-track-your-office365-roll-out/
23.
24. In the middle of it all, don’t ever
forget that Microsoft Office is
your most business critical app.
25. TO UNDERSTAND THE
FUTURE OF TECHNOLOGY
YOU NEED EMPATHY FOR
HOW WE DID THINGS
BEFORE
= Ultimate User Adoption Catalyst
Teams is the gateway drug that
leads to the consumption of all the
other drugs in the Office 365 store
30. Fast Track your Office 365 Roll out
Change Management is more important
than ever
Create Mentorship programs
Stay up to date, know your product,
shortcomings and advantages, communicate
Rinse & Repeat
33. What’s new in Office 365
Office 365 Roadmap
Microsoft Tech Community
Office 365 Training Center
Microsoft Champions Program
Community
@tracyvds
@NACollabSummit
#CollabSummit
36. Links to resources used in the presentation:
Evolution of Finding Stuff:
https://tracyvanderschyff.com/2017/12/13/the-evolution-of-finding-stuff/
Help your Microsoft 365 Citizen Developers Blog Series:
Part 1: Business Analysis – Ask the right questions
Part 2: Business Analysis – Document your Solutions
Part 3: Project Management
Part 4: Process Flowcharts for #Microsoft365 Citizen Developers
Part 5: Creativity & Curation
Part 6: Communication & Training
Part 7: Change Management
ROI on Training:
https://tracyvanderschyff.com/2018/03/17/roi-on-training/
To learn new things, we first have to un-learn the old bad habits:
https://tracyvanderschyff.com/2018/07/22/to-learn-new-things-we-first-have-to-un-learn-the-old-bad-habits/
Digital Literacy and the Impact on User Adoption:
https://tracyvanderschyff.com/2017/10/05/digital-literacy-and-the-impact-on-user-adoption/
PC Literacy basics everyone should know:
https://tracyvanderschyff.com/2018/04/12/pc-literacy-basics-everyone-should-know/
The real cost of PC Illiteracy in your company:
https://tracyvanderschyff.com/2018/01/13/microsoft365-day-106-the-real-cost-of-pc-illiteracy-in-your-company/
How we deliver IT Support should change:
https://tracyvanderschyff.com/2017/11/26/how-we-deliver-it-support-should-change/
Adoption Challenges for Modern vs Classic SharePoint:
https://tracyvanderschyff.com/2018/02/20/adoption-challenges-for-modern-vs-classic-sharepoint/
Yes, #MicrosoftTeams “Over-Adoption” does exist, and it’s scary
https://tracyvanderschyff.com/2018/11/12/yes-microsoftteams-over-adoption-does-exist-and-its-scary/
#Office365 #Adoption Truths: Users can smell your fear
https://tracyvanderschyff.com/2018/11/04/office365-adoption-truths-users-can-smell-your-fear/
What’s new in Office 365
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/What-s-new-in-Office-365-95c8d81d-08ba-42c1-914f-bca4603e1426
Office 365 Roadmap
https://products.office.com/en-us/business/office-365-roadmap
Microsoft Tech Community
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/
Office 365 Training Center
https://support.office.com/en-us/office-training-center