PMI Atlanta Presentation – Monday April 5, 2010
I’ll be presenting on the topic of Enterprise Content Management using SharePoint 2007 on Monday April 5, 2010 at the Alpharetta Lunch Meeting Session of PMI Atlanta (11:30 AM – 1:00 PM).
I’ll be performing a ”deep-dive” demonstration of how to satisfy the Control of Documentation requirement for ISO 9001:2008.
Click here for the actual presentation file PMI Atlanta ISO 9001:2008 Presentation.
For More Information on the Event (including directions) Click Here.
Abstract
From http://www.iso.org , “The ISO 9001:2008 standard specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide product that meets customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, and aims to enhance customer satisfaction through the effective application of the system, including processes for continual improvement of the system and the assurance of conformity to customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements. ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001: 2004 were implemented by more than a million organizations in 175 countries.”
Satisfying and implementing all the requirements of the ISO standard is a large undertaking and requires the support of the entire organization. The intent of this presentation is to describe how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 can be used as a tool during this undertaking, specifically in satisfying the requirements stated in Section 4.2.3 Control of Documentation. In order to be ISO 9001:2008 certified, your organization must develop and document a procedure to control quality documents. The requirements of ISO 9001:2008 are generic and are intended to be applicable to all organizations, regardless of type, size and product provided. Remember the guidance offered by the standard is prescriptive rather than descriptive. In other words, how you implement control of quality documents is up to you, as long as you show that you have satisfied the stated requirements.
About PMI Atlanta – Chapter Overview
The Project Management Institute (PMI®), established in 1969 and headquartered near Philadelphia, USA, is the world’s leading not-for-profit project management professional association, with over 200,000 members representing 125 countries. Currently there are over 240 chartered and approximately 20 potential chapters geographically dispersed over 67 countries. PMI professionals come from virtually every major industry including, aerospace, automotive, business management, construction, engineering, financial services, information technology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, and telecommunications. PMI establishes Project Management standards, provides Seminars, Educational Programs and Professional Certifications that more and more organizations desire for their project leaders.
PMI is dedicated to advancing the state-of-the-art in the management of projects. PMI membership is open to anyone actively engaged or interested in the application, practice, teaching, and researching of project management principles and techniques.
The PMI Atlanta Chapter serves the North Georgia and Metro Atlanta area. Ranked in the top three chapters in the world for Membership, PMI Atlanta’s 4,400+ members are employed across all industries, with a majority in the IT and Telecommunication fields. However, size in itself is not the goal. As a large chapter, we are able to offer quality programs and professional networking. We can also more significantly impact businesses in the metro Atlanta area as we strive to increase the recognition to the profession of Project Management.
SharePoint Connections 2010 Amsterdam – Presentations Posted
All presentations from SharePoint Connections 2010 Amsterdam have been posted here.
The International SharePoint event of the year highlights over 40 sessions for IT-Pro, Developers and end-users. Sessions were delivered by SharePoint Experts from Europe and the USA.
A few topics from the conference are:
End user:
Without writing any code or custom solution SharePoint 2010 offers a lot of possibilities to adapt to the end users wishes.
- What’s new for end users
- Using the Business Connectivity Services
- ECM for the Masses – How SharePoint 2010 Delivers on the Promise
- SharePoint Designer
- Rich media in SharePoint 2010
- Creating Workflow
- Social computing
Developer:
SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010; just good friends….
- Advanced Web part development
- Sandboxed Solutions
- BCS solutions
- Client side object model
- Enterprise Search & FAST search
- SharePoint UI customization
- Silverlight
IT-professional:
SharePoint 2010 gives the IT Pro the tooling to create and maintain high performance and high available farms.
- Architecting a fault tolerant, high performance SP 2010 farm
- Backup and restore in SP 2010
- Claim based Identity
- Large scale repositories
- Implementing multi lingual solutions
- Protecting content with SQL server 2008
- Upgrade scenario’s
All presenations from SharePoint Connections 2010 Amsterdam have been posted here.
Microsoft Windows Azure Platform TCO and ROI Calculator
Click Here to access the TCO and ROI Calculator…
Azure Services Platform is an application platform in the cloud that allows applications to be hosted and run at Microsoft datacenters. It provides a cloud operating system called Windows Azure that serves as a runtime for the applications and provides a set of services that allows development, management and hosting of applications off-premises.
The Azure Services Platform uses a specialized operating system, called Windows Azure, to run its “fabric layer” — a cluster hosted at Microsoft’s datacenters that manages computing and storage resources of the computers and provisions the resources (or a subset of them) to applications running on top of Windows Azure. Windows Azure has been described as a “cloud layer” on top of a number of Windows Server systems, which use Windows Server 2008 and a customized version of Hyper-V, known as the Windows Azure Hypervisor to provide virtualization of services.
The platform currently offers five services:
- Live Services
- SQL Services (which is now Microsoft SQL Azure)
- .NET Services
- SharePoint Services
- Dynamics CRM Services
which developers can use to build the applications that will run in the cloud.
Microsoft offers the Microsoft Windows Azure Platform TCO and ROI Calculator, which will provide you with a customized estimate of potential cost savings you (or your company or organization) may achieve by building on the Windows Azure Platform. Upon completion of the TCO and ROI Calculator profile analysis, you will be presented with a detailed report which shows estimated line item costs for an accurate TCO and a 1 to 3 year ROI analysis for you or your company or organization.
Click Here to access the TCO and ROI Calculator…
NOTE: You should not interpret the analysis report you receive as a part of this process to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft makes no guarantees regarding the accuracy of any information presented in the report. You should not view the results of this report as a substitute for engaging with a third party expert to independently evaluate you or your company’s specific computing needs. The analysis report you will receive is for informational purposes only.
SharePoint 2010 VM – Virtual Machine Download Available
Microsoft has just released a SharePoint 2010 VM…
Click Here to download
This download contains two Virtual Machines for evaluating and demonstrating Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010.
Virtual machine “a” contains the following pre-configured software:
- Windows Server 2008 SP2 Standard Edition x64, running as an Active Directory Domain Controller for the “CONTOSO.COM” domain with DNS and WINS
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP2 Enterprise Edition with Analysis, Notification, and Reporting Services
- Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007 R2
- Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Ultimate Edition
- Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Edition Beta 2
- Microsoft Office Web Applications Beta 2
- FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Beta 2
- Microsoft Project Server 2010 Beta 2
- Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2
- Microsoft Office Communicator 2007 R2
Virtual machine “b” contains the following pre-configured software:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Evaluation Edition x64, joined to the “CONTOSO.COM” domain
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
Active directory has been preconfigured with over 200 “demo” users with metadata in an organizational structure. All of these user profiles have been imported and indexed for search within SharePoint Server 2010, with “contoso\administrator” granted administrator permissions. SharePoint Server 2010 has been configured in a “Complete” farm using Kerberos authentication and the default SQL Server 2008 instance for data, and has a site collection created using the Team Site template at http://intranet.contoso.com/ and a FAST Search Center at http://intranet.contoso.com/search/. Performance Considerations 1. If possible, unpack and run the VM image on a separate, fast hard drive (7200 RPM or better) from the operating system of the host machine. If this is being done on a laptop, a second internal drive or external eSATA drive works best, though USB 2.0 (make sure it’s 2.0, 1.1 is too slow) or Firewire is acceptable. For absolute best performance use a second internal SSD drive.
Atlanta SPIN, SharePoint, and ISO 9001:2008 Document Control
I had a great time presenting at the Atlanta SPIN (Software & Systems Process Improvement Network) meeting on Wednesday January 20, 2010. The topic was using SharePoint to satisfy the requirements of the ISO 9001: 2008 standard, specifically Section 4.2.3 Control of Documentation.
In today’s economy, providing a product of the highest quality will help differentiate your product line from your competitor’s, and provide a strategic advantage. Many customers are now demanding that their suppliers conform to the ISO 9001: 2008 standard.
From http://www.iso.org/, The ISO 9001:2008 standard specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide product that meets customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, and aims to enhance customer satisfaction through the effective application of the system, including processes for continual improvement of the system and the assurance of conformity to customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements. ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001: 2004 were implemented by more than a million organizations in 175 countries.
Satisfying and implementing all the requirements of the ISO standard is a large undertaking and requires the support of the entire organization. The intent of this presentation is to describe how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 can be used as a tool during this undertaking, specifically in satisfying the requirements stated in Section 4.2.3 Control of Documentation. In order to be ISO 9001:2008 certified, your organization must develop and document a procedure to control quality documents. The requirements of ISO 9001:2008 are generic and are intended to be applicable to all organizations, regardless of type, size and product provided. Remember the guidance offered by the standard is prescriptive rather than descriptive. In other words, how you implement control of quality documents is up to you, as long as you show that you have satisfied the stated requirements.
Additional Information
I’ve attached the Atlanta SPIN presentation for reference (click here to download).
For more information on this topic, please see my previous post Build an ISO 9001:2008 Compliant Document Management System with SharePoint.
About Atlanta SPIN
The vision of Atlanta SPIN is to help create a business community competitive in a twenty-first century global marketplace through proactive sharing of process and product development improvement models, ideas, and techniques. Our mission is to provide educational, scientific, and practical information about process and development improvement for its members, other SPIN and professional organizations and the business community in furtherance of our vision.
Atlanta SPIN provides a forum for the free and open exchange of experiences and ideas in process, people and enabling technologies. Our purpose is to: 1) to enhance our membership’s knowledge and skills through an active program of networking, publication, recognition of excellence, and mutual support, and, 2) to help sustain organizational commitment to the improvement of quality, process capability and organizational maturity for software and systems development, acquisition, and delivery of related services.
