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Powering a Crowd-Sourced Marketplace with Drupal + Commerce OpenSesame Online marketplaces are popular business models - they’re a big, scalable opportunity, but they also present unique challenges. How do you support different buyers and sellers and all of the... Beginner Business + Strategy
Going Beyond the Magic: Codifying Culture to Build a Kick Ass Team matt westgate Have you ever wanted to take vacation but didn't know who to ask? Have you wanted to attend a Drupalcon but didn't know if your company had an event policy? Ever wanted to vent but didn't know... Beginner Business + Strategy
Requirements, Technical Specifications, & Drupal: Planning for Successful Projects rj, jonriekse When embarking on a development project of any scale, communication and documented requirements are vital to success. The goal of requirements documentation is to clearly communicate what will be... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Results Oriented Agile: How to Get More of the Right Results, Sooner and with Less Risk. TomDude48 Drupal gives you a huge tool box to deliver features. As Drupal accelerates the website development cycle, the question changes from “How do we build sites?” to “What should we build?” This session... Beginner Business + Strategy
Agile & Drupal Perfect Together adzuki3, cherringland, bleen18 A panel discussion... Intermediate Business + Strategy
How to incrementally integrate QA in an Agile Development Process Everett Zufelt, akshaybarve As Drupal continues to grow to be a platform fit for large scale enterprise applications, integrating Quality Assurance (QA) into development processes will become more of a pressing concern. Well... Beginner Business + Strategy
The Many Ways Aegir Can Help Your Business ergonlogic The Aegir Hosting System is the only fully free and open source distributed provisioning system for Drupal. It allows you to manage anywhere from a few sites for a single organization, to thousands... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Social Drupal – To Infinity and Beyond Susan Cato Your website may already be a star, but the online universe is all about shining light beyond your site to include other channels—including social networks, email newsletters, and mobile applications... Advanced Business + Strategy
Managing Your (Drupal) Professional Services Business (Aka what keeps you up at night?!) cwolz, kvoelker, Ben Finklea In this “unconference” format session new entrepreneurs and leaders of growing (Drupal) services businesses will gather to discuss business questions and challenges they face in building their... Intermediate Business + Strategy
A Guide to Planning Complex Applications in Drupal zorbtrauts Drupal has increasingly been used as a framework for building complex web-based applications. In this session, we will explore how proper planning, documentation, testing, prototyping, and... Intermediate Business + Strategy
An Introduction to Structured Data and Semantic Web in Drupal keithricker, Sonny Cohen An introduction to Structured Data and the Semantic Web. More specifically, we talk about Google's support for Rich Snippets, and how sites like Yelp, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. utilize semantic... Intermediate Business + Strategy
The strategy of giving back: How contributing to Drupal can make your company thrive owenlansbury Many companies struggle to balance client work with contributing back to the Drupal project, but things become much easier when it's embedded into your core business strategy. Whether your company... Beginner Business + Strategy
The Science of Guessing - Drupal estimation techniques from project managers svettes, chrisstrahl, solipsist What usually happens before you get started planning, designing, writing and coding is estimation. Your customer wants to know what the party will cost them. It’s a tricky question to answer. This... Beginner Business + Strategy
Open Book Management: Empower Your Team DuoKelly If the Open Source movement works so well in the technology world, why not expand those same principles to how you manage your company? This session will cover what Open Book Management is and how... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Firing on all cylinders: A case study of a successful agile web project mirzu, discofk, jugglerpm, Jared Rogers Client projects are sometimes good and sometimes bad, but rarely do things come together in such a way that they are great. In summer 2012, Full Plate Living approached Four Kitchens with a "Big... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Tools, Tips and Techniques for Private Cloud Deployments xbrlspy Whether you’re an independent developer or development manager in a large company, “the cloud” is on everyone’s mind. But just because it’s in the cloud, doesn’t mean development and deployment is... Beginner Business + Strategy
Opensource options for enterprise IT systems - ERP Joe Matthew Isn’t it frustrating when you work with a prospect, get them excited about the benefits of Open Source, then its time to choose an ERP system and the short listed platforms are SAP, Microsoft... Beginner Business + Strategy
What is Enterpirse Drupal and How Do You Get Some? rgs, nstango So you think you're ready to develop for the Fortune 500? Drupal's adoption in the Enterprise sector has been staggering and demand for Drupal in the Enterprise has been an important catalyst in... Intermediate Business + Strategy
So Happy Together: Sales, Client Services, and Engineering dianadupuis, tim-hamilton, robb-astonish Do the developers fight a guerrila war against the sales people? Does the sales process exists in a galaxy far far away from the development process? Are client managers the great disempowered middle... Beginner Business + Strategy
50 Ways to Rock the Web TomDude48 50 strategies, 50 slides, 50 minutes; let’s start building better websites that get results! Building a great, high performing website is no easy feat. You have to be an expert in; digital... Beginner Business + Strategy

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