35 Tips to Drupal Project Management Nirvana

Track: 
Business and Strategy
Experience: 
Beginner

For a Drupal project to be successful you need strong project management leadership to keep the process on-budget and on-schedule. In this session we will reveal the 35 tips we have learned over years of successfully managing dozens of Drupal projects for our clients. The presentation will be very focused on providing specific, actionable methods you can use immediately to improve how you manage a Drupal project.

From proactive project management, to keeping the client updated, to managing out of scope requests, the tips will cover all aspects of the Drupal development lifecycle, including requirements gathering, development, testing, training and deployment. Our goal is simple: after attending this session you will have the tools you need to up your Drupal project management game to the next level.

Better project management is a benefit to your team, to your firm and ultimately (and most importantly) to your client.

Intended audience: 

Anyone involved in or wanting to grow into the role of a Drupal Project manager will benefit from the tips, tricks and secrets we will be sharing during this presentation.

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
How do you handle out of scope Drupal configuration vs. customization project requests without upsetting the client, and in a way that ultimately increases client happiness?
Question 2: 
What are the three greatest project management challenges with Drupal projects, and how do you solve them?
Question 3: 
What is proactive project management and how does it help you get better decisions from the client faster?
Question 4: 
What is the secret to providing reliable, consistent and correct estimates for tasks?
Question 5: 
How do you use a checklist to make your Drupal launches and migrations smooth and effortless?
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when?

This looks great, but I don't see a time for this session -- where can I find out how to attend?

This session wasn't picked up

This session was one of many that was proposed by the community, but didn't make it onto the final schedule. For a list of accepted sessions, please check out: http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/confirmed

Similar sessions you might want to check out are:
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/strategies-client-management
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/project-management-art-form
http://chicago2011.drupal.org/sessions/lessons-learned-agile-process-app...

Too bad!

Thanks for that info George, I thought maybe some were to-be-scheduled or something.

Too bad, I'd have really liked to attend this one! Maybe next year! I'm already signed up for those you suggested :)

See you at Drupalcon!
Best,
Shannon

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