For anyone who’s interested, both of these are free: just sign up at the links shown.

1. Sriram Krishnan on Windows Azure

Date: Jul 28-Aug 3, 2010

Led by: Sriram Krishnan

Please join Sriram Krishnan, author of Programming Windows Azure, in an online book club about Azure: Microsoft’s solution to cloud computing.

Sriram will explore:

  • Under the Hood: Why Azure?
  • Questions about other clouds and experiences
  • What is unique to Azure?
  • Limitations of all clouds
  • Storage solutions and options
  • High performance computing in the cloud
  • Which apps work well in the cloud? Which don’t?

How does it work?

Sriram Krishnan, author of Programming Windows Azure, joins our new online book club, The Inner Circle, starting on Jul. 28. We hope you jump right in and post your questions about Windows Azure for Sriram to answer and participate in the discussions with other readers. If you sign up for the online book club using the button on the right, we’ll send you a reminder email.

Sign up here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/1689?utm_content=em-orm-ug-AzureBookclubHTML&utm_campaign=UG+Mailings&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email&imm_mid=05fe6d&cmp=em-orm-ug-AzureBookclubHTML

2. Best Practices in Developing Requirements for SharePoint Projects:

Poor requirements can be attributed to failed SharePoint implementations. The key to successful SharePoint implementation is properly developing requirements. A lot of people know that this is important, however, only a handful of folks truly understand what it takes to do this right.

In this presentation, you will learn key techniques in effectively eliciting, analyzing, prioritizing, validating and documenting requirements for SharePoint projects.

In addition, participants will be able to identify:

  • Key components of requirements gathering process
  • Why requirements traceability is paramount in defining ROI in SharePoint projects
  • Why having a well defined business case is necessary to effectively initiate requirements gathering

The primary audience for this class are executives, managers, analysts, consultants who wish to properly implement SharePoint and immediately reap its organizational benefits.

Participants will get presentation notes, checklists, and templates.

Sign up here:

https://oreilly.connectsolutions.com/reqsharepoint/event/registration.html

About Dux Raymond Sy

With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology, Dux Raymond Sy has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. He is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, Inc., a Microsoft-certified, business technology consulting and services company that serves startups to Global 50 clients.

As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, he is focused on empowering organizations on how to leverage the benefits of collaborative tools with quantifiable goals such as: Increasing productivity and efficiency, decreasing collaboration redundancies and streamlining electronic communications. In addition, he is Bamboo Nation’s resident project management expert.

A sought after trainer for Learning Tree International, he has developed and facilitated management and technology training to government organizations, Fortune 500 companies, non-profit institutions in the United States, Bahamas, Barbados, China, the United Kingdom and the Philippines and regularly writes about project management, SharePoint and globalization at MeetDux.com.