Agile, Telemetry and Rails, Oh My

Agile, Telemetry and Rails, Oh My

Sean Wallbridge, SharePoint MVP

@itgroove | www.itgroove.net

Who is this guy?

Sean Wallbridge :: SharePoint Tour Guide

Experience 21 Years in Information Technology

IT Consultant/SharePoint Jedi

10 Years as a Business Owner

President and Principal Consultant @itgroove

SharePoint MVP (6 years), Trainer (MCT) & Casual Developer

Author and Technical Editor for 8 books

On the Web: www.itgroove.net

My Blog: www.brainlitter.com

We are Cloud

Friendly and

Office 365 Ready

What am I about?

SharePoint Tour Guide

SharePoint Jedi

Bob Ross of SharePoint

(and Office 365?)

Jedi Master Norris

The Sith are screwed now…

What is Office 365?

portal.Office365.com

Team Collaboration

& Dashboards

IM & Video

ConferencingEmail Public Website

Service Layer and Extras

FOPE Project Online

Yammer CRM

Power BI Delve

Video Azure/ACS

… and more

SharePoint

Online

Lync

Online

Exchange

OnlineSharePoint

Online*

Software plus Services

The Buzz Words

• Agile

• Telemetry

• Rails

• Working out Loud

• Machine Learning

Agile

Always in Beta.

Always Baby Steps.

Resistance to Change is Futile.

Relating to or denoting a method of project management, used especially for software development, that is

characterized by the division of tasks into short phases of work and frequent reassessment and adaptation of plans

Examples of Agile

• Improved Sharing

Examples of Agile

• QR Codes for document links

Examples of Agile

• App Switcher - Pinning in App Switcher

• Up Next: Customizing

First Release

• This is an option. Don’t do this in Production

unless you are prepared

• Get the goods within a week of Official

Announcement at blogs.office.com

• Standard release is typically about 3 weeks after

First Release

• You can toggle it on and off…

First Release

• This is an option. Don’t do this in Production

unless you are prepared

• Get the goods within a week of Official

Announcement at blogs.office.com

• Standard release is typically about 3 weeks after

First Release

• You can toggle it on and off…

Telemetry Use it. Or Lose It.

Telemetry is the wireless transmission and reception of measured quantities for the purpose of remotely monitoring

environmental conditions or equipment parameters.

Casualties of Telemetry

• Tags and Notes

• Work Management (Tasks Aggregation)

• Public Websites

• Office on Demand

• What’s Next? What do you think?

RailsYou don’t know what you want.

(Apple did it, so we will too…)

A permanent track composed of a line of parallel metal rails fixed to sleepers, for

transport of passengers and goods in trains.

I hope you like Waffles…

• Get to know (and accept) the App Switcher

• Focus on solving business problems, not making SharePoint

and the rest of Office 365 “not look like SharePoint, and the

rest of Office 365”…

You Get To Define…

• How users will start the day in Office 365

• Your Logo

• Your Theme

• Your App Switcher

You Get To Define…

• How users will start the day in Office 365

• Your Logo

• Your Theme

• Your App Switcher

Working Out Loud

• Yammer

• Groups

• Delve

Machine Learning• Delve

• Clutter

So What about

SharePoint vNext?

• Last time it went Gold on 10/11/12

• This time it will arrive on…

?? Julyuary FleventySeventh ??

Best Guesses?

• It Should…• Be Strong and Stable, more so than ever

• More user friendly and easier to manage

• It Might…• Include FOSIL

• Mega Menus and better navigation

• Promoted Links and Task Switcher

• Include better bridges for searching on Premise and

connecting with BCS through web services, etc.

• It Might Not…• Include Form Services (maintain a 2013 farm?)

• Include Access 2010 Services

• Include Work Management

• It Will Not…• Include the “Service Layer”

What do you think? Expect? Hope?

Questions?

Thank you.Email: [email protected]

Blog: www.brainlitter.com

Website: www.itgroove.net

Twitter: @itgroove