Mitigating Risk through Planning and Process

Track: 
Business and Strategy
Experience: 
Beginner

Learn a proven strategic process for gathering requirements, designing site themes, and developing Drupal websites. Drupal poses particular challenges in these areas, and we will help you navigate them with predictable results.

In this session we'll discuss how agile analysis and project management processes can be applied to Drupal implementation. We'll discuss the setting of expectations for stakeholders when planning and executing a Drupal project, and how to avoid the typical pitfalls. You'll also learn how a multi-disciplined project team can smooth your project execution, and increase your chance for overall success.

Topics to be covered:

  1. Modes of failure
  2. Conducting research to develop a strategy
  3. Creative design process
  4. Site building process
Intended audience: 

The intended audience is Account and Project Managers, Business Owners and project stakeholders who have traditionally used a fixed-bid model and waterfall approach to developing websites. Our goal is teach a shift to project retainers and agile processes.

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
How do I reduce risk through estimation, communication, execution and change?
Question 2: 
What is the difference between waterfall and agile project management?
Question 3: 
How do I include a client as part of my team?
Question 4: 
Why is Drupal a great platform for user stories and role modeling?
Question 5: 
What is scrum and how does it increase team communication?
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Extremely helpful and spurs good discussion

I've presented this session in the past and received very positive feedback from the audience. It spurs good discussions and provides extremely useful information for those interested in process.

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