I’m very excited to speak again at the upcoming SharePoint Best Practices Conference in the Washington, DC area. The conference will be August 24-26, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, VA, a short hop from Dulles International Airport (IAD).
I’ll be speaking about "Using Service Oriented Methodologies to Create SharePoint Products", a topic that’s near and dear to my heart. If you have an idea for a SharePoint-related product but don’t know how to make that idea pay, or you already have some SharePoint software that you would like to take to the next level, this is the session for you. Here is full abstract:
This presentation focuses on applying development methodologies and software architectural concepts of Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) to the task of creating complex SharePoint applications. We will see how a SOA approach can help us achieve a stable and scalable product, decrease support and maintenance costs by decreasing the product’s complexity, and greatly simplify the copy-protection and licensing requirements for the product.
While the topics in this presentation are of great benefit to new software development efforts, they can be even more valuable to organizations with an existing product set. We will look at a case study of how a traditionally architected application was converted using the SOA tenets discussed in this presentation and the benefits that conversion brought about.
Oh, and did I mention that Arpan Shah, Director of the Microsoft SharePoint Team, is giving the keynote?! Take a look at the great list of topics and speakers. Register today for what is sure to be an exceptional conference!