Design & User Experience Tools Tips and Techniques: Project Management Using Hybrid Agile Development

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1 Design & User Experience Tools Tips and Techniques: Project Management Using Hybrid Agile Development Presented by Matthew Saunders and Stacey Harrison

2 TWEET! Tweet questions with hash tag #DconDenPM and in your message.

3 Matthew Saunders Director of Technology Stacey Harrison Director, Project Management

4 Who are we?

5 Matthew: Drupal since 4.6 WESTAF pingvision Vintage Digital LLC Examiner.com

6 Stacey - Drupal pingvision Examiner.com Project Management PDI Ninth House Bissonnette Funding Solutions Direct Response Offers ABC/ Disney Studios ABC/ Sony Studios CBS Studios PMP certified Group facilitation training

7 MatthewS & StaceyH- d.o j_matthew_s & StaceyH- IRC - G+ - twitter Matthew s personal blog - dogstar.org matthew@dogstar.org hurrison@hotmail.com

8 The Story of two Drupal Cuckoos

9 Why Do We Do What We Do?

10 ... the Call of Druthuhlu

11 Bring Calm from Chaos.

12 star5112 on Flickr

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14 daveknapik on flickr

15 Part I 3 Software Methodologies

16 anyjazz65 on flickr

17 Cowboy or Extreme Highly informal Focuses on Stakeholders Can be used in very unpredictable projects Can be excellent for rapid prototyping Roy Montgomery on flickr

18 n.hewson on Flickr

19 Waterfall Highly Formalised Focuses on Requirements Inflexible Planning is Frontloaded

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21 SheltieBoy on Flickr

22 Agile Defined Timeboxes Iterative Development Methods Incremental Collaborative Requirements and Solutions Rapid and Flexible Responsive to Change Self Organizing Teams

23 PART III Examiner.com - Agile Hybrid Approach

24 Our Cats 4 themers 9 developers 2 project managers 2 designers 3 product managers 2 QAers 1 release manager 2 dedicated infrastructure + a variety of contractors

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27 Unifying behind a single goal

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29 user stories vs PRD What paradigm shift?

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31 Project Management Acts as Scrum Master Leads Pointing Stories Protects Dev Team from Distractions During Coding Ensures that the Team Doesn t Make Mistakes Manages the Schedule

32 Product Owns Backlog Personas, Epics, and Stories Answers questions that Clarify Business Needs Demos Software at the End of Sprint

33 Developers Self Organizes Selected Stories Decides What Can/Can t be Completed in the Timebox DEFINES the Implementation of Business Needs Executes

34 Examiner s Timebox Timeline 60 days - Business Requirements 40 days - User Stories, Wireframes, Comps 20 days - Beginning of Current Development cycle

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37 These Three Overlap To Cover A Single Timebox

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39 Demos and Retrospectives

40 Rapid deploy team

41 Daily Scrums What did you do in the last 24 hours? What are you doing today? What are your blockers?

42 Well Oiled Machines on flickr

43 IRC

44 Google Docs

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46 Faster, Better, More Awesome

47 What did you think? Locate this session on the DrupalCon Denver website Click the Take the Survey link. Thank You! Caro's Lines on Flickr