In this episode, we follow up with Funko Inc. one year after Microsoft's team + MVPs swooped in for an intranet makeover: SharePoint Swoop. Hear from Funko's Kurt Dicus, VP of IT, and Scott Christensen, SharePoint Consultant, as well their product development team called The Shire to find out about all they have implemented since November 2017. And it’s a lot; more use of SharePoint, PowerApps, Flow – expanding their intranet out to more divisions and new products (like FunkO’s cereal).

 

We also talk with Sean Squires, senior program manager on the SharePoint engineering team, and Bob German, Partner Technology Architect, about how they helped create a custom SharePoint site design behind the scenes during the filming days of Swoop.

 

Funko put the tech under their toys and kept growing their intranet in lockstep with the fast pace of their business. Prepare to be swooped, re-swooped and #SharePointSwoop’ed like never before!

 

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Pop!ped Left to right, top to bottom: Kurt Dicus – VP of IT (Funko) [guest], Michelle Mauro – technical project manager (Funko) [guest], Trisha Cunningham – senior business analyst (Funko) [guest], Scott Christensen – SharePoint administrator (Funko), Sean Squires – senior program manager (SharePoint/Microsoft), Bob German – partner technical architect (Microsoft) [guest], Mark Kashman – senior product manager (SharePoint/Microsoft) [co-host], Chris McNulty – senior product manager (SharePoint/Microsoft) [co-host], and Freddy Funko – mascot (Wacky Wobbler/Funko) [guest].

 

Link to articles and videos mentioned in this episode:

 

• SharePoint Swoop - the intranet makeover show: https://aka.ms/SharePointSwoop [five episodes]
• "Bobblehead boom: Funko grows with speed and tech to deliver more pop culture fun" [via Microsoft Transform blog]: https://news.microsoft.com/transform/funko-grows-speed-tech-pop-culture-fun/ 
• Office 365 Dev Blog (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/blogs/)
• SharePoint site designs - details on the what and how – including the latest JSON schema for site script construction: aka.ms/spsitedesigns
  • GitHub – for samples (ms/spsitescriptsamples– and we want yours!)
• POP! yourself https://www.funko.com/pop-yourself
• “Making fun: the story of Funko” on @Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/80244272

 

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The Incredible Hulk battling with The SharePoint Monkey for balance in the world of productivity at Funko Inc. (Everett, WA).