Streamlining Project Management and Team Communication with Alfresco Share 3.2

Streamlining Project Management and Team Communication with Alfresco Share 3.2

August 25, 2009

Joshua Toub, General ManagerJosh McJilton, Project Manager

2Webinar Overview

Case Study: Using Share to “Eat Our Own Fish Food”

• Who is Blue Fish?• Background on Blue Fish projects• Share Demonstration• Wrap-up and Q&A

3Who is Blue Fish?

• Blue Fish helps Fortune 1000 companies solve content-related business problems by planning, designing, and implementing enterprise content management solutions.

4Who is Blue Fish?

• Blue Fish helps Fortune 1000 companies solve content-related business problems by planning, designing, and implementing enterprise content management solutions.

• We’re in our 11th year of solution development and implementation • Singularly focused on enterprise content management • Emphasis on a great user experience in enterprise class solutions• Often invited to help with our clients’ most challenging ECM projects

• We’ve recently become an Alfresco partner• We’re based in sunny Austin, TX, but work with companies all

around the globe

5Blue Fish Projects

• We follow an Agile development methodology• We have a “rigorous but adaptable” project management framework that supports our

development processes• Team members traditionally used many separate tools:

• We have a legacy ECM system, but it’s not integrated

MS Project MS Excel MS WordReplicon Google SitesGoogle DocsFogBugzInstant Messenger

MS OutlookPhone

Documentum

6An Hour in the Life of a Tech Lead…

MS Project

Google Sites

Google Docs

FogBugz

DocumentumInstant Messenger

MS Excel

MS Outlook MS Word

Phone

MS Outlook

MS OutlookDocumentum

Documentum

Documentum

Instant Messenger

DocumentumInstant Messenger

7Aspects of our Ideal Solution

• Integrates easily with existing behaviors• Is nimble enough to be adapted to fluid processes• Facilitates project communication• Proactively provides the right information to the right people• Provides basic collaboration capabilities• Can act as a portal to other tools• Is based on an enterprise-class content management system

• How did Share measure against these criteria?

8Aspects of our Ideal Solution

• Integrates easily with existing behaviors• Is nimble enough to be adapted to fluid processes• Facilitates project communication• Proactively provides the right information to the right people• Provides basic collaboration capabilities• Can act as a portal to other tools• Is based on an enterprise-class content management system

• How did Share measure against these criteria?

Integrates easily with existing behaviorsIs nimble enough to be adapted to fluid processesFacilitates project communicationProactively provides the right information to the right peopleProvides basic collaboration capabilitiesCan act as a portal to other toolsIs based on an enterprise-class content management system

It seemed like a great match

9Demonstration

10Final Thoughts

• Customizing Share was easier than expected• Webscripts• Community• Access to source

• Sites are great for projects• Wiki + CMS + Collaboration = Lower Costs & Happier Team• Keep specialized functionality in dedicated apps

11Looking for More?

General questions about Share…Curious how Share might help your unique business needs…

Looking for articles and sample code…

We’re happy to help!

Joshua Toubjoshua@bluefishgroup.com(512) 469-9300 x121http://www.bluefishgroup.com