Development Using Postman

Presented by Cameron Sibbald

In this session we’re going to look at some strategies for building and testing APIs with Postman. You’ll learn how to configure environments and populate environment variables with values from request results, as well as how to format requests that can be used across different environments.

SharePoint Provider-Hosted Apps On-Prem and In The Cloud

Presented by Vili Bogdan

While provider-hosted apps were introduced in SharePoint 2013, they are still a relevant piece of technology for extending SharePoint functionality. In this session we’ll go over the various options of deploying provider-hosted apps for SharePoint on-premises and SharePoint Online and how to manage application identities.

Empathy vs Sympathy: Designing for Humans

Presented by Sandra Murillo Paz

Putting ourselves in the other’s shoes to relate to what they’re going through, whether good or bad, can be easier said than done. How else do we really understand clients’ needs and pains if we don’t relate to their context? We’ll look at the importance of Empathy as a foundational element to problem-solve (design) and develop real useful technology solutions, review real-life examples (maybe too real to admit) and practice with real cool tools that you can use on your next project.

Business Process Notation

Presented by Mark Morris

Join me as we discuss the exciting elements of process mapping in Business Process Mapping Notation (BPMN) 2.0.

An in depth look at each of the shapes and how to diagram them together to capture the activities required to complete a process.

12  Years Later – What the DevFacto Team has Taught Me

Presented by Chris Izquierdo

A walk down memory lane about the lessons all of you have taught me over the last 12 years. As some of you know, my transition from technical consultant to CEO was to put it mildly not very graceful.

I’m going to share the lessons I learnt from our interactions as a team, from our growth and what I believe made us successful despite the odds against us and our shortcomings. There will be time at the end to ask questions or heck ask them throughout. This session is meant to be a conversation rather than a dissertation. I will have fun putting it together and I hope you enjoy it as well.

Azure DevOps Backlogs, Estimates and Configuration

Presented by Keith Silgard

I will show you how to build a backlog and structure DevOps to keep your DE up-to-date (bye bye nagging) and your client in the loop (so long missed requirements) without spending all your time shuffling tickets and doing busywork.

Data Virtualization 

Presented by Jason Medwid

Data is everywhere these days. Everyone’s excited about Data Science, Analytics, BI. There’s gold to be found in that data, but it’s messy, scattered, and there’s too much of it. With Data Virtualization, we now have sophisticated tools that let us blackbox the data. We can now work with data without knowing the details of its implementation – its platform, its location, the particulars of how to access it. This opens up the ability to have an interface-based approach to data management and consumption that greatly improves consistency, maintainability and ease of use.

This talk will explain the fundamental concepts of Data Virtualization and demonstrate their implementation in a leading Data Virtualization tool.

Azure DevOps Build, Test, & Deploy Automation with ARM Templates

Presented by Alvaro Albanez

Ever wonder what happens if you delete a resource group or its resources by accident?  How can you recreate it and know everything is setup properly?  When using Azure, ARM templates are extremely useful to help you create entire environments as part of your automated releases.  Most importantly this is easy to setup and use.  I like to show case how you can spin one up in a few minutes and show you the benefits of ARM templates.

Professional Branding 101

Presented by Laura Konsorada & Marta Hofmann

Your personal brand is your most valuable asset. In a professional setting, it helps you build up a capital of trust with stakeholders before even meeting them in person. Join us for a session full of practical tips that will show you how to establish and nurture your brand to grow your career.

Figma 101

Presented by Sandra Murillo Paz & Chris Martin

Ever been asked to make quick mockups or wanted to try and prototype something yourself? Figma is a tool for all sorts of designs, not only for designers! Join us for a workshop where we’ll introduce basic tips and tricks, show you how to use them, and get you to practice with a realistic scenario.

Optional but encouraged: bring your laptop and phone!

Work Smarter with PnP PowerShell

Presented by Vili Bogdan

Ever since its release in mid-2015, the PnP PowerShell module has seen large growth, both in the number of cmdlets available, as well as in the number of contributors. In this workshop we’ll go over how PnP PowerShell can be used to simplify tasks such as:

• Extracting and applying site templates
• Populating lists and libraries
• Migrating content

These techniques can be applied in both SharePoint on-premises, as well as SharePoint Online.

SparkFlow – A Framework for Better Decisions

Presented by Stephen Visser

If you’ve been on a team where decision-making seems harder than it needs to be, or you’ve put a ton of effort building something that doesn’t meet the client’s expectations, you’ll want to come to this session. You’ll learn tools for identifying when to consult with team members about a decision, who to include, how to facilitate creative brainstorming, and how to arrive at a decision without consensus. I collect ideas from product management, lean manufacturing and agile methodology into a format that works at DevFacto.

PowerApps & Flow for Office 365 Group Creation

Presented by Adam Tobias

Have you ever had a request to automate the creation of an Office 365 Group? If the answer is yes, then this workshop is for you. Sure enough, you can use PnP, but what if the client wants a little-to-no-code solution that is catered for the IT Department SMEs. As Microsoft continues to promote PowerApps and Flow, I’ll show you how to use these applications to collect and automate the process of creating Office 365 Groups. This workshop will be split into two parts: building the user interface and configuring workflow automation. We’ll build a standalone PowerApps for the SMEs that connects with a SharePoint list to retrieve and create Office 365 Groups using Flow. As a bonus, you’ll get a peek into Azure Application Registration, Site Scripts and Site Designs.

Web App Securtiy Basics

Presented by Curtis Badke

This is mainly aimed at people that did not attend last year’s ‘Hack Yourself First’ training and would like to learn about basic security topics around web app development. This will be a very quick whirlwind of various topics framed around the last ASP.NET Core templates and looking at why they are built the way they are.

Delivery Exec Retreat

The Delivery Exec team will take the day to hold team discussions and workshops together.