The first talk I went to was
How to make Hackathons great.
The presenter of this wanted to get people in the room that had done hackathons to lead this talk but people were reluctant so he shared his ideas and by the end people had opened up.
There was no magic solution and what we are doing currently seems to go well with what was suggested.
The notes I made were as follows
Elements of a
hackathon
- Idea pitch
- Team formation
- The hack
- Result presentaion
- Mentoring - important role, subject matter expertise, technology, architecture, legal, marketing and business - for complex topics consider a technology mentor per team
- Jury - Provide different perspective and viewpoints, gives feedback
- Follow up
- Staffing
- Materials
- Duration
- Catering
It's important to create a safe
environment - don’t records, don’t log details of people suggestions, make
people feel safe they can contribute
Pitch - short
concise present the pitch 1-2 minutes
Mix of skills, teams
should be made of people with different skills and needs. Devs, designers,
subject matter experts, etc
Use a framework -
SCRUM - AGILE like approaches with micro sprints are quite successful
Preparation matters - Plan resources that are going to be needed at the start. Whiteboards, flipcharts, wifi, software, venue etc
1/3 or 1/2 ration of people with ideas to support staff - this number includes
catering, registration, facilitation
Time management - make sure things keep on track
Floor Comments
Hallmark cards -
typically run day sessions to cater for people with family life
The most important
thing they found is getting the buy in from the top as it will take people out
of work
One company bought
in some local students to join in to bring in fresh ideas
Collaboration in the Office Apps
So this one went on about how people are working more collaboratively, typically coming together at conception to brainstorm ideas then going away to work on bits individually, checking in as a group to see how things are progressing, maybe going away again and then coming back together at the end
Again they pushed teams to help with this but the big take away was that collaborative working that we can do today with office online apps is coming to all versions of Outlook
Very soon people will be able to co-author on all versions of office PC, MAC, Android, IOS etc.
Chat intergrationi
is built into office so you can chat to other people you are working with while you collaborate.
Showed an example
where in the comments section of an office doc he added a @someone and that notified the user on
their phone that there was document that
needed their comments on. This was done
via a mobile app (i assume office 365) when the original requester logged back in to the document they got an updates that showed them what changes had been made
This functionality is dependent on the data being stored on one drive or sharepoint online - this can be done with team sites
easily
Drive
Yammer usage and adoption across your organization
So there were two main takeaways from this the first is that to drive yammer within our organization it needs to be driven from the top. The content that gets sent out from the CEO or HR currently via emails and is very static if that was moved to yammer and it was encouraged for people to feedback on it that should be all the catalyst that is needed to drive yammer. From there awareness will grow and people will hopefully start to use it themselves
The other one was teams vs
yammer and that turned out to be fairly simple
Teams is for Team based communication where your audience is targeted and yammer is for a wider audience where people are necessary targeted.
The Microsoft teams team has a yammer group. They use it to get feedback on the product from Microsoft employees. It's the easiest way to get community feedback
Microsoft have an
all hands live Q&A. They gather
questions ahead of time using Yammer and then discuss them live
They even it
broadcasted live with Skype Broadcast
Virgin trains
example
Good way for remote
workers to keep in touch with their organisation
They had a message
to say that not enough people were buying from the train shops.
Lots of ideas shared
on yammer and employees were posting their success stories on yammer
Thinking inside the box - Containers in Azure
Notes from session
Containers make
things easier
It has to be Developer driven
Rapid deployment
Reproducible configurations on any cloud
Immutability - just
deploy a new container over the top
Service separation -
micro services, can pull large applications apart and create containers for the
parts
High Availability
Scalable
Reduced costs - more
containers on same hardware
Azure offers
Container instances
- designed for small task based applications that run, perfrom a task then shut down
Container services -
full container service
Container registry -
container hub for storing container instances
Docker engine - lets
you run containers
Docker client - CLI
to the docker engine
Docker Image -
application template to be deployed multiple time
You can layer images, for example windows > IIS > application
Saw a demo
Used visual studio
to build an asp .net core application
Created new project,
web application and was a check box to enable docker support
Azure
Customer Stories
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September 2017
13:36
Azure.com/stories
Carmax - faster
response to 16 million customers
Move to a dev / ops
model
Reduce storage costs
and gain scale
Gave them access to
azure services such as redis cache they didn’t have to build themselves
Very easy to stand
up new environments so if something didn’t work they could rebuild at very
little costs and time
Azure Customer Stories
Went through some Azure customer stories
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/case-studies/
Bainshark
Rapidly growing
video content, maxing out data center storage
Moved videos to
azure and benefited from adaptive biutrate streaming
Azure content
delivery network increased video performance
Urban refuge
With azure you can
build apps for android, ios and windows simultaneously using visual studio
tools for xamarin https://www.xamarin.com/visual-studio
Generali
Backup
Using Azure Site Recovery
Savings of 65%
Protect and control your sensitive emails with new office 365 message encryption capabilities
Existing encryption solutions
are cumbersome due to having to distribute key especially as people started to
consume email on multiple devices
Classify the content
- how private is this data, then apply the relevant protection to the
classification
Office 365 message
encryption vision - anyone on any device in any email client
Microsoft now offer email protection in their outlook clients
User sends from
outlook webapp to a 3rd party using gmail.
Creates the email and hits the protect button
By default it selects the default template that encrypts the email and the recipient can only read the email not forward it on. The user can
change the level of protection they want from a number of drop downs.. You can
even create your own templates
The recipient
receives a wrapper email saying that someone has sent a protected message
The wrapper email
can be customized by the sending organization. This is just a
normal email so you can read this anywhere
There are two
options to either use a one time pass code or to sign in with a federated
service, Microsoft accounts, gmail and yahoo are currently federated
Once authenticated the email and
attachments are then displayed in a web page with the allowed reply,
forwarding, print, copy paste options
If the account isnt federated then the user clicks on the one time passcode link and gets emailed the passcode which they enter and can they view the email in a portal
Also works on
outlook for macs outlook for IOS - no portal required when using outlook app
To turn this on you
do need to run a powershell commandlet
In a few months it
will be alwayws on for new tennants
Using mail flow you
can force these policies to be on
If you want to use
your own keys this is possible, place the key in the azure key vault and fire
up Azure information protection. If you
do this then only you will have visibility of your keys.
There may be issues around compliance where companies cant see the email due to it being encrypted and stored on a portal
and to finish off
Some people were consuming the sessions in a break out area where this massive screen had the content from some sessions playing simultaneously and you could get a headset and tune into the audio of the session. Useful if you didnt want to walk or wanted to flick between sessions
For the evening meal at the hotel I went with the Brisket
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