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#sitNL analysis in Tweets

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Another recap on this years #sitNL . Let's have a look at the tweets that have been published. A tool like TwUniverse provides a lot of fun. Thanks to Martijn Linssen . 872 tweets, starting at 20 Nov 2011 18:50:33 and ending at 28 Nov 2011 07:08:24 on: #sitNL. That is 4.84 per hour Top 10 most active participants @steinermatt (78=9%)  @fredverheul (59=7%); @qmacro (56=6%) @martijnlinssen (49=6%) @thorstenster (45=5%)  @wolf_gregor (44=5%) @tbroek (36=4%)  @ttrapp (33=4%) @mgillet (33=4%) @lvhengel (27=3%) Top 10 influential (based on getting RT-ed) @qmacro (26 = 9.8%) @fredverheul (18 = 6.8%) @wolf_gregor (17 = 6.4%) @steinermatt (14 = 5.3%) @tbroek (13 = 4.9%) @boobboo (12 = 4.5%) @roelvdberge (11 = 4.2%)  @thorstenster (10 = 3.8%) @lvhengel (10 = 3.8%) @jpenninkhof (9 = 3.4%) Top 10 most mentioned @tbroek (62 = 9.6%) @jpenninkhof (50 = 7.7%) @thorstenster (44 = 6.8%) @qmacro (40 = 6.2%) @steinermatt (40 = 6

SAP communities ROCK!

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What could possibly motivate 70+ people to come together on a Saturday in Eindhoven? Was it to: Share passion with 70+ geeks and peers? Exchange business cards from 30+ different companies? Attend one of the 14 expert sessions? Meet with one the 11 (!) SAP Mentors? Shake hands with one the 5 DemoJam heroes? Enjoy Mrs. Penninkhof’s dinner? It was - of course - all of the above. And it was a blast; the third SAP Inside Track in the Netherlands proved once again that the SAP community rocks ! Please continue reading on my SDN blog . It contains 2 interesting tweets and 17 replays of the day. sitNL speakersclub 2011 (Sven van Leuken and William van Strien missing) sitNL participants cloud

Recap #SYTYCI - So You Think You Can Innovate

And the winner of our So You Think You Can Innovate competition is: Flexible Workflow Wizard Innovators:  Diederick Bossenbroek ,  Ravi Santani Second: View on Healthcare Innovator:  Luc de Bruijn And third: mTime Innovators:  Jan Willem Kroneman ,  Leon Zijlstra ,  Roel van den Berge ,  Louis van de Wiele It was a close - very close - call. The rating was based on 2/3 by customer/CIBER jury and 1/3 by tweets. It turned out that the tweets with #FWW pushed them to the nr. 1 position. Congratulations Diederick (Service line SRM) and Ravi (Service line SAP NetWeaver). We were very proud to have a jury that consisted of a selected group of honorable CIO’s and IT managers of CIBER’s key customers in the Netherlands including NXP, Attero, VGG, IFF and Royal BAM. A great competition that even made it to our local newspaper:  Eindhovens Dagblad . So for sure a sequel is planned in 2012, we will even try to make it an international competition.

So You Think You Can Innovate

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Tomorrow is a great day with the CIBER NL finals for our internal innovation competition: "So You Think You Can Innovate" What started out with an idea by Mario Smit , lead to a serious competition. From the original 18 participants presenting their idea in the auditions of May, now only 3 are left to 'fight' the final battle. Voting will be done with a jury of highly valuated customer representatives, counting for 2/3 of the end result. The remaining 1/3 is the public jury voting with the Twitter hashtag #SYTYCI . So who is competing tomorrow? Flexible Workflow Wizard (#FWW) Innovators: Diederick Bossenbroek , Ravi Santani The Flexible Workflow Wizard is an innovation that let customers create and maintain their procurement workflows in a user friendly centralized web based cockpit environment. Flexible Workflow Wizard: DEMO from Wiel Moonen on Vimeo . mTime (#mTime) Innovators: Jan Willem Kroneman , Leon Zijlstra , Roel van den Berge ,

Scrum and SAP, magic? Only at Hogwarts?

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At this years SAP TechEd, I hosted two expert sessions (EXP479 and EXP592) in the SAP Mentor corner. I have some good memories on the sessions as I expected a maximum of 15 people to discuss scrum within SAP projects. But it turned out that around 60 people joined me. So much for interactive discussions :) Here you can see me sharing experiences on 4 projects in the Netherlands doing  scrum  in the  SAP  world. Thanks to Roel for taking the picture. Scrum and SAP, magic? Only at Hogwarts? View more presentations from Twan van den Broek . Maybe you are interested in my SAP Inside Track Bonn presentation as well: 20100220 Sit Bonn V1 0 View more presentations from Twan van den Broek

SAP TechEd 2011 key messages

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SAP TechEd season is over. In Madrid we had 699 sessions. That means: 860 hours of SAP TechEd stuff; 36 days non stop; 108 working days (8 hours each); 224 expert sessions; 202 lectures; 164 pod sessions; 106 handson sessions. A lot of knowledge to absorb. And now I'm trying to recap that in only one blog post ;-) First, let's do the short version: SAP TechEd 2011 in only 3 words: HANA , Mobility and Innovation SAP is sending out a stable message. The core is to be stable and flexibility is to be provided to endusers. Huge investments are made to enable 'your own' apps to connect to the SAP backend. With Gateway, Sybase and DUET, SAP realizes that they need to open up. With mobility and other end user platforms the power is back to where it belongs: the end user . The person who actually wants to get work done in the most efficient and effective way, regardless of whatever backend system is underneath. Let's go back to Vishal'

Agenda SAP Inside Track NL 2011

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The 3rd SAP Inside Track NL On November 26 another SAP Inside Track is planned, location is Eindhoven, the Netherlands. We have 50+ participants, 25+ different companies, 14 highly valued knowledge sessions, 8 SAP Mentors, 5 DemoJam contesters, 1 Mrs Penninkhof cooking our dinner and ... you? The agenda can be found in my SDN blog .

SAP TechEd Tweet Top 10

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Still suffering from the SAP TechEd hangover? At least I am, not that I didn’t enjoy my time over there. Not at all – I really appreciated the event – again. Appreciated the fact that SAP is sending a stable (SAP NetWeaver ;-) message into the world, appreciated to have met all my SAP friends  (aka SAP family) again and still feel honored to be part of the SAP Mentor program and by that meeting very interesting people. So that’s why I’m still suffering from the SAP TechEd hangover ;-) A short look back to last week helps me getting over it. To do so I will use Twitter . Let me share some alternative Top 10’s with you. SAP InnoJam Madrid Twitter Top 10 With the help from TwUniverse  by  Martijn Linssen  I could analyse all the #InnoJamMa tweets. Here are the results. 1. Greg Chase ( @gregchase ) with 46 tweets (8%) 2. Fred Verheul ( @fredverheul ) with 36 tweets (6%) 3. Ivan Femia ( @ivanfemia ) with 32 tweets (6%) 4. Tim Guest ( @timtheguest ) with 30 tweets (5%)

Interview on #sitNL and #sitBRU

During SAP TechEd Rui Nogueira interviewed both Martin Gillet and me on the SAP Inside Track events we are organizing with fellow enthusiasts. SAP Inside Track Netherlands ( http://bit.ly/sitnl11 ), November 26, 2011, Eindhoven. SAP Inside Track Brussels, 2012, Brussels. A replay is available at the SAP Technology Innovation Show (episode 006).

SAP InnoJam Madrid interview

My colleague Roel van den Berge got interviewed by Rui Nogueira on the SAP InnoJam, a prequel to this years SAP TechEd event.

Why you can't find me at SAP TechEd

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What can I say, busy days ahead ;-) Green - where I have to say or do something Orange - reserved hands on sessions Blue - SAP Mentor sessions Purple - sessions I am interested in Please join me at: EXP479 , Scrum and SAP, magic? Only at Hogwarts? PMC165 , Build system centric processes using combined SAP NetWeaver BPM and PI offering. (supporting as SAP Mentor) EXP592 , Scrum and SAP, magic? Only at Hogwarts?

SAP TechEd 2011 Top 10

Next week we can experience the SAP TechEd in Madrid . Time to do a session analysis. Based on the titles from the 278 scheduled sessions I created the SAP TechEd 2011 Top 10 . (1, 1, 1) SAP NetWeaver (66 sessions) (2, 2, 10) BusinessObjects (30) (7, -, -) Mobility (19) (-, -, -) HANA (16) (3, 3, 6) ABAP (15) (4, 5, 4) BPM (14) (8, -, -) PI (14) (5, 4, 5) BI (11)  (-, -, -) Portal (10) (-, 8, 3) Java (8) Between brackets results from ( 2010 , 2009 and 2008 ). It will be no surprise that Mobility is hot, very hot. This year on nr. 3.  And *BANG*, out of nowhere on nr.4 we have HANA . Well, well, Java is back in the list again. Who would have expected that after the kiss of death ;-)  And what about the portal , 10 scheduled sessions on the SAP Portal, where some of us have stated that the portal died. Bit strange that Sybase (6, -, -) has only 6 scheduled sessions. Probably contained within the mobile sessions. Also strange that Microsoft (10, -, -) ended u

The Dutch SAP Mafia

The Dutch SAP Mafia (SCNotty) from Twan van den Broek on Vimeo . Our #CIBERnl entry to this years SCNotty competition. The idea originated out of a statement by @thorstenster when he decided to join the #sitNL in 2010. "Finally my chance to meet the Dutch SAP mafia." Well you can meet us in person during the SAP TechEd in Madrid. (And you don't want to mess with us ;-)

Fresh new look

Well I hope that you'll find it a fresh new look ;-) Spent some hours restyling and trying to migrate to Wordpress. But to get what I want (tag cloud, tweet a post, customizable colors and pictures) you have to run Wordpress on your own server - at least that's how far I came. So left my blog with Google's Blogger. Hope you'll continue to read and I promise that I'll leave you more posts than I did last year :)

sitNL - The SAP TechEd XPerience

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Here we go again - for the third time in a row - the SAP Inside Track NL. On November 26th SAP NetWeaver enthusiasts gather at the #sitNL to share, learn and inspire. More in my SDN blog . Registration is possible via our wiki page .

SAP NetWeaver BBQ

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A different meeting this time, a barbecue with CIBER's SAP NetWeaver's. A great evening with lovely weather for us fortunates. More pics in my SAP NetWeaver BBQ album .

SAP NetWeaver Spotmeeting: Adobe Interactive Forms

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Knowledge sharing is important, especially in our SAP NetWeaver world, which is very knowledge-intensive. Last week we had colleague Rudy introducing us in the Adobe Interactive Forms world. In a hands-on workshop we were able to create our 'first Adobe Interactive Form'. Pizza's, cola and SAP - ingredients for a successful evening. Breaking heads on the exercises. More pics in my Flickr set .

Doing scrum without knowing

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Just stumbled upon two old pics. Couldn't help thinking that I am already doing scrum in SAP projects much longer than my current project which is often called the first SAP project using scrum in NL. Here's one of a project in 2003: And another one of a giant dashboard in 2004/2005: Do not underestimate the power of simplified communication. A dashboard gives your team (and yourself) a great overview on where your project is standing. It doesn't have to be very difficult, a brown paper or a whiteboard and some post-its and there you go...

SAP Inside Track NL 2010 / Recap

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Our 'family picture', taken during the after party. The die-hards looking back at a successful event. On Saturday November 20th, more than 50 SAP TechEd enthusiasts gathered in Eindhoven (Netherlands) to participate in the second SAP Inside Track NL . A small recap of the #sitNL event in my SDN blog .