Visually appealing and an engaging experience surpassing expectations of simplicity, attractiveness and a look that just speaks of blings.
Running a business is tough. Usable Solutions, Feasable ideas, Real World Scenarios.
Best use of tools and technologies.
Built the best killer app, the best solution
Goes out of their way to help and encourage other teams
Goes out of their way to create something extraordinary useless.
First end to end working solution delivered before lunch the first day of the event. Does not count together with Show and Tell or Head2Head.
Using gadgets, costumes or similiar to create a really cool camp, and keeps a extraordinary good team spirit throughout the event
Starting the day before the sun rises.
Keeps a extraordinary good team spirit throught the day
Solution is uploaded to an open repository, and you do a sensible pull request on a competing teams code.
Uses several third party solutions in their delivery, opensource or payable solutions made available by others
Solution is responsive. Adapts to all devices and screen sizes
Using search in an innovative, useful way. Solve a business problem!
Create great looking dashboards with graphs, kpis and reports using Excel Services/ PowerBI / Reporting Services, Performance point/ Visio or some other frameworks. Minimum 4 graphs, gauges or kpi's.
Uses external data to add business-value to existing data in your solution, and presents it in an excellent way.
Integrate into everything that flips bits
On popular demand the feature bombing badge is back! But this time cram as many user features into one screen as you can. Five or more and you might get some points. If you go all aboard and it all makes sense, extra points
Shiny, glossy user interfaces would earn this badge, it won't break on small screens right?
Implement workflow to improve business productivity in a solution. Do you have a process that can be automated?
Use hip tech, like node.js, Clojure, functional programming style, Nancy. Hate on Visual Studio, embrace new Microsoft and use open technologies
Creating superdirty hacks to achieve awesomeness
This is all about Apps. Create an app/plugin for a Microsoft Product ( Teams, SharePoint, Dynamics, Office 365, VS Code, Visual Studio etc.). And don't forget that it has to solve a business need.
Use your powerful end-user skills to develop something useful in SharePoint, Dynamics or Power Platform. #ProCodeNoCodeUnite
Doing something cool with late technologies. It's all legacy now, baby!
Got a great, well thought idea with some cool sketches? Maybe you can get a badge for that.
Combine at least three different Microsoft cloud api's and the badge could be yours!
Show innovative use of AI/Machine Learning/Neural networks to solve a problem or visualize data.
Practicising development and deployment best-practice
Most of their solutions are extremely fluent by running in the client's browser. But how to avoid creating a heavy monolith front-end. Show use of modern front-end frameworks. React, Angular, State management, Streams.
Native mobile or windows app that rocks! How about some Cordova, Xamarin or even React Native?
Script the config of your entire solution. Azure infrastructure as code, ARM, PowerShell, CI/CD
Doing something collaborative in real-time with socket.io, signalR, websockets etc. Don't repeat yourself!
Use WebAssembly to present front-end magic. Have you noticed Blazor is the new kid in town?