2. Collaborative Construction of Custom SharePoint Artefacts Gavin Barron

3. Collaborative Construction of Custom SharePoint Artefacts About Me Gavin SharePoint Certified Rocket Scientist - development (MCTS MOSS & WSS) http://gavinb.net gavinb@intergen.co.nz

4. Collaborative Construction of Custom SharePoint Artefacts Session Overview Approaches to software development. Creation of SharePoint artifacts in the real world. The Ugly. The Bad. The Good. Application of software development practices.

5. Collaborative Construction of Custom SharePoint Artefacts Approaches to software development. Traditional Waterfall Approach. Familiar Proven Great for forecasting expenditure. Agile Requires heavy customer buy-in Able to respond to changing needs more easily Helps to ensure that users get what they want.

6. Collaborative Construction of Custom SharePoint Artefacts Creation of SharePoint artifacts – The Ugly Single SharePoint server for the entire organisation. Most users are designers. No processes or policies to control user actions. Meta-Data is not constructed using Content Types. No owner for content. Chaos!

7. Collaborative Construction of Custom SharePoint Artefacts Creation of SharePoint artifacts – The Bad Requirements for meta-data captured ONLY in documentation. Overbearing change management. Developers hand craft artefacts with no user involvement. Chasing a fully automated system regardless of cost. Slow to react to business needs.

8. Collaborative Construction of Custom SharePoint Artefacts Creation of SharePoint artifacts – The Good Separate servers for Dev, Test & Prod. Interactive requirements gathering. Developers utilise artefacts created in requirements phase. Pragmatic use of technology versus people. Sensible application of change management. Rapid reaction to business needs.

9. Collaborative Construction of Custom SharePoint Artefacts Application of software development practices. Demo

10. Collaborative Construction of Custom SharePoint Artefacts Useful links. VSeWSS 1.2 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?F amilyID=7bf65b28-06e2-4e87-9bad- 086e32185e68&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?F amilyID=7bf65b28-06e2-4e87-9bad- 086e32185e68&displaylang=en VSeWSS User Guide http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?F amilyId=A8A4E775-074D-4451-BE39- 459921F79787&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?F amilyId=A8A4E775-074D-4451-BE39- 459921F79787&displaylang=en Andrew Connells STSADM Extensions http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/MossSt sadmWcmCommands.aspx http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/MossSt sadmWcmCommands.aspx Gavs Blog http://gavinb.nethttp://gavinb.net