DrupalCon Copenhagen August 23-27 2010 - project management

Activism, Project Management and Drupal

auzigog — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:26:02 +0000

Type: BOF session

Day: Wednesday, 25. august 2010

Time: 16:00-17:00

BOF space 2

This session will cover how Drupal can be used by activists, community organizers and other small teams of people (in any setting) to manage projects effectively. I'd love to discuss this with everyone interested in activism, project management and Drupal.

5 minutes (lightning talk)

The session will cover:

How activists can get the most out of Drupal by using a variety of tools
What the Drupal community can do to facilitate better project management tools for activists
When CiviCRM, Open Atrium and Activism Labs are each most suitable for a site

Scope Creep - Your New Best Friend

Bryn Vertesi — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:08:29 +0000

Type: Not planned session

Scope Creep is typically considered a disaster for project budgets. Learn how to manage and engage with it instead, and it can become a great driver for repeat contracts and satisfied clients.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

The first thing any Drupal Project Manager learns is that clients only understand the power of the system when they see it. Once you get close to a final product, suddenly the client wants more. This new imaginative phase comes partly from the learning curve of any new system, and partly from simple human nature. Indeed, we are all prone to getting our best ideas towards the end of the project. Managed poorly, this tendency can be an enormous liability on your project budget; the term "scope creep" evokes the frightening image of a project that never ends.

Drupal in the Corporate Eco-System

amaree — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 02:06:03 +0000

Type: Not planned session

This talk will aim to share the experience of assisting corporations with the introduction of Drupal, the needed areas of attention in the upgrade process and some hard lessons learnt on the battle fields.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

case study

Over the past two years the Drupal user base has grown to include large corporations. This talk presents experiences learnt from various projects introducing Drupal and Open Source Technologies into corporations with pre-existing environments. This discussion will be aimed at:

Drupal project management tools: time to build our own dogfood

kvantomme — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 21:21:49 +0000

Type: Session in official program

Day: Wednesday, 25. august 2010

Time: 14:45-15:45

19 Acquia

Are you still not using Drupal to manage your projects? Since July 2009 excuses are running thin. And if Open Atrium didn’t do everything you ever expected from your project management system, it’s about time that we join forces and build our own dog food.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

In this session I’ll present a review of Drupal built tools for project management. You'll get an introduction to Open Atrium and the tools we developed for Knowledge and Project management in Open Atrium.

The Drupal Process - Great Projects, No Slavery Required

wesku — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:29:44 +0000

Type: Session in official program

Day: Tuesday, 24. august 2010

Time: 16:00-17:00

19 Acquia

We have a look at different project management frameworks and why some of them work and some don't in Drupal projects. This session is good for both professional service providers and customers looking to hire one.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

After working some 15 years with web projects I have been both service provider and customer for a large number of different projects. I've seen and tried number of different methods how to run web projects. After both success and failure I have come to realize that agile scrum can fail just as easily as traditional waterfall models do when dealing with Drupal projects.

Imaginary users can save your Drupal site

jp.stacey — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:10:15 +0000

Type: Session in official program

Day: Thursday, 26. august 2010

Time: 14:45-15:45

19 Acquia

User personas - fake users everyone has a hand in fleshing out - can ensure your site's functionality and usability and speed up feature launch

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

None of these people exist, but that doesn't actually matter

Drupal lends itself well to modular, separately deployable code. This means you can often reduce quite large Drupal-based projects to sets of minimum deployable features (MDFs) - informally speaking, chunks of functionality which get a particular job done, and don't look weird on their own - which quickly start to take shape as Drupal development plans.

Additional Presenters: Rich Middleditch

A sprint in the life of a highly agile Drupal development organization.

JacobSingh — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:35:50 +0000

Type: Session in official program

Day: Thursday, 26. august 2010

Time: 09:00-09:50

18 VPS.NET

Get inside the process behind the building of Drupal Gardens. Acquia's engineering team have been building DrupalGardens at a fast pace for the past year and now that we are heading into open beta we decided it was time to open up and share what has worked well with the community. Chris Brookins (VP Engineering), Linea Rowe (Director Product Management) and Jacob Singh (Principal Engineer) will take you through a 21-day sprint in the life of the Drupal Gardens team.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

It's actually not this messy practising Scrum with the Acquia engineering team.

Acquia's engineering team have been building DrupalGardens at a fast pace for the past year and now that we are heading into open beta we decided it was time to open up and share what has worked well with the community. Chris Brookins (VP Engineering), Linea Rowe (Director Product Management) and Jacob Singh (Principal Engineer) will take you through a 21-day sprint in the life of the Drupal Gardens team.

This session is for:

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Engineering managers trying to inspire their teams to greatness while watching the bottom line.

Additional Presenters: Chris Brookins

Khairn - project management, Drupal-based

j4h8 — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:53:57 +0000

Type: Not planned session

To succeed in project management, you need a smart tool providing one-stop support for the many tasks associated with large projects.
Certainly there is no better foundation for such a tool than Drupal, our „swiss army knife“. Our company, data in transit, is developing Khairn, a Drupal project management distribution that has proven itself in daily use through several projects.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

Khairn - requirement-driven project management

Resources: Khairn Website data in transit Khairn on Twitter Khairn on Facebook

How to Keep Content from Ruining your Content Management System

CrystalWilliams — Thu, 27 May 2010 20:33:07 +0000

Type: Not planned session

It's a CONTENT Management System... so why do we (and our clients) so often ignore the content until the last second? Learn to read the signs early and get more sites launched on time by managing the content and not just the code.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

We've all seen the pattern.

Designer cleverly fills in the boxes, design looks great, client approves design, developers implement the design, site is ready to launch once we get those boxes filled in with the real conte..... What do you mean you don't have anything to go there?

As much as we love the code, great sites live and die by their content. Unfortunately, many sites are still designed and built assuming "something" will fill in the boxes. That's no way to treat your users!

Learn how to incorporate content-centric thinking into your process and: