The Scrum (R)evolution: embrace the future of web development

Track: 
Business and Strategy
Experience: 
Beginner

Web development is hard, very hard – and it’s getting harder. But there is hope, a radically different approach called agile.

If you build websites, you know the pressure. Modern websites are complex beasts with thousands of moving parts. Clients have high demands – changing demands. Budgets have never been tighter. If you are going to stay ahead of the competition, you have to innovate – continually. And everything has to be done at the breakneck speed of web time.

The results: the average project is 45% over budget, delayed by 63% and missing 1/3 of the promised functionality.

Failure has become the norm! – but there is a better way.

Agile is a radically different processes for improving development efficiency, minimizing risk and enhancing innovation. In the ten short years since the agile manifesto was penned it has taken over traditional software and game development. The world’s web leaders such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Twitter and Saleforce.com have embraced agile methodologies to meet this 21st century challenge.

Yet adoption of agile has been slow in small and midsized web projects. A few progressive boutique teams have made the leap, and the result has been transformational. Come learn how boutique agencies are adapting the agile Scrum processes to web development.

We will cover whys and hows of agile:
• Why agile now; the call for empirical processes
• Improving on time, on budget and on scope
• Scrum in a nutshell (agile’s hottest framework)
• Driving the innovation machine

5 things you will learn
• Humans suck at estimating and why / a.k.a fixed bids are a myth
• How to plan the right way with Just In Time strategy
• Prado was right – how to get the 20% that gives 80% of the results
• Tools to rock – how Scrum works
• How to continually drive innovation the MIT way

Intended audience: 

project managers, website stakeholders, product owners, agency managers, developers, freelancers

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
How can I keep projects on time, on scope and on budget?
Question 2: 
Why traditional the traditional software development life cycle doesn't work for Drupal web development?
Question 3: 
How to continually and efficiently deliver great work
Question 4: 
What is Scrum?
Question 5: 
How agile can be used to drive unparalleled innovation
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