These are the presentations MyUW team members gave at Open Apereo 2015.
The linked Lanyrd site links slideware, recordings, etc., where available.
Andrew Petro supported Unicon's Drew Wills in delivering this.
Tim Levett, Andrew Petro, and Tim Vertein delivered a half-day hands-on seminar for understanding MyUW's alternative front end implementing the uPortal landing page, favorites, and the app directory, with an emphasis on the reality that you can grab this (publicly available) code and point it right at your own uPortal and be running with it.
Andrew Petro co-presented with Unicon's Drew Wills and Oakland's Dave Derderian, with Jim Helwig offering concluding remarks linking to uPortal steering comittee.
Tim Levett and Andrew Petro presented on MyUW experiences developing an alternative landing page for MyUW in AngularJS, alternative favorites and application directory implementations, widgets, and AngularJS frame-based applications as alternative to JSR-286 portlets.
In some ways this is the conference-session-length lecture version of the half-day hands-on seminar.
Tim Levett and Tim Vertein presented on Google Ventures design sprints, MyUW positive experiences with these, and call to action for everyone to try them and design better.
Jim Helwig presented on user-centered design accompanied by radical openness to and welcoming of feedback.
Andrew Petro brought together uPortal project participants for discussion of vision for where uPortal is going as a project and a product. The first session was a facilitated exercise for hearing from everyone and listening well to them. The second session drew conclusions and next steps from that input and from the other conference inputs.
Summarized at Andrew's blog and followed up on on uPortal project email list.
Jim Helwig brought together uPortal project participants for discussion of what MyUW and others are doing with notifications in the portal, seeking common use cases and collaborators.
These are five minute little talks.
Tim Levett articulated that: Portlets were intended to modularize, to break the portal into small managable pieces, to be things that are actually instrumented and managed. Microservices are the new small manageable modules.
Andrew Petro reflected on lessons learned so far about fulfilling the product owner role in Scrum.
Andrew Petro had previously advocated not merging one's own pull requests. He nuances that position with lessons learned.