Agenda from the SBTUG 31 March 2010 meeting including links to news and events.

1. SBTUG 31 March 2010 Craig Bailey@craigbailey

2. SBTUG 24 February 2010 5:45pm – Doors open 6:00pm – Welcome and Intro (Craig Bailey | @craigbailey) 6:15pm – Tech News (Craig Bailey | @craigbailey) 6:30pm – Managing Vendors (Andrew Cohen | @TheLoudestVoice) 7:00pm – Being a Vendor (Richard Banks | @rbanks54) 7:30pm – Pizza Break 7:50pm – Q+APanel Session (with both speakers) 8:30pm – Finish

3. #sbtug Thank Youz @TheLoudestVoice @rbanks54 @jodiem @aussienick @CADbloke @kathyhughesmvp @craigbailey @sbtug

4. Vendor Management How do you manage the relationship? How do you protect the interests of both parties? How do you mitigate risk, avoid scope creep & adhere to standards? How do you include legal requirements without costing a fortune? How do you provide clear specifications without drowning in documents?

5. Quick survey Who’s here for the first time? Who’s managing projects? Who’s being ‘managed’? Who’s here to heckle?

6. Your Questions

7. Cost If you want pizza, drinks & be in the prize draw... $10 donation

8. Anyone looking for a job? 2 minutes to let us know how awesome U R

9. Community Service Announcement Tomorrow is April Fools Day Please DON’T Rickroll Please DO something original

10. Events Coffee meetings – thelatteguy.com 10-11 April – BizSpark Camp for Azure -> $5K prize 13 April – UXBookClub.org 13-14 April - Australian ALM Conference 22-23 April – SMX Sydney 06-07 May - webDU 24-26 May – CeBIT ?? June – ReMIX – Melbourne <- Boo!  16-17 June - Australian SharePoint Conference 24-27 Aug – Tech*ED – Gold Coast <- Meh

11. SBTUG 2010 28 April 2010 Sexy Technology; SharePoint 2010 Prep 26 May 2010 Accounting & Freelance Tools Smackdown (Xero, Saasu, Freshbooks, Zoho, ATO) Note: 29 September is our CMS Smackdown night... www.sbtug.com

12. Tech News Bing Updates coming shortly Google loves China  iPhone HD rumours CERN collides Windows Phone 7 announcements Patents Galore (Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook) Microsoft Dynamics CRM 5 CTP3

13. Visual Studio 2010 Launch iPad Launch HotMail to get Office Web Apps Integration Something in Justin’s Favourites Windows Azure – 09 April – pricing NewsMap.jp Office 2010 – April release

14. Introducing Our Speakers Andrew Cohen Richard Banks