Sharing ideas, experiences, and best practices for project management.
Helping other Drupallers to become more effective and efficient in projects they manage.
Join us on IRC in the #drupal-pm channel!
Knowledge Assessment For Drupal
In my recent assignments, I was asked to make one document which will cover all necessary aspects of the Drupal project . So it will be easy for Trainers and Recruiters as well. Please feel free to edit this post.
Level : Basic
• Software Installation : Drupal 6 and Drupal 7 installation
• Basic LAMP setup and configuration : Setting and configuring LAMP
• Language : PHP, Drupal APIs, JavaScript , HTML/CSS, XML & XSLT , JQuery , Ajax , JSON
• Basic PHP : Basic PHP functions & concepts
• LAMP knowledge : Basic commands of Linux ,Apache & Mysql conf.files and settings.
Happy 2013!! Tell me all your PM Resolutions at our next meet up...
Hi PM'ers!
Who's down for a february meet up? I'd really LOVE to hear your PM resolutions for 2013 -- could make for an interesting debate!
Maybe we could do one before Sydney -- say feb 1st? 9am ET?
Open to suggestions :)
-Shan
PS: I apologize if this is posted twice, wasn't showing up the first time I posted :/
Read moreCool D8 PM Article!
Hey guys,
Just ran into this from my good friend Ashleigh... good stuff, check it out!
http://www.bluespark.com/blog/contributing-weekly-upd8
-Shan
Read moreREMINDER - PM meet up tomorrow! 8am EST!
Hey y'all,
PM meet up tomorrow AM EST! Be there or be... somewhere else much less cool.
Meet up is hosted on Joinme, see event for details & come join us for a review of Trello, as well as a PM chat about crap going on in the PM world.
http://groups.drupal.org/node/273153
-Shan
Read moreDrupal PM Meet up - Dec 18th 8am est - Trello Demo (join.me supporting sharing)
Hey Dreeps,
Here's a post to update you on the Drupal PM Meet up - This time w/ a more friendly timezone to our friends in asia, australia, et all.
This one is getting pushed too far down the thread! I'm doing another post to make it bubble up to the top :)
Screensharing link: https://join.me/493-660-253
Conference number: +1.415.464.6999
Conference ID: 493-660-253#
Call in #'s Outside of the US:
AT – Austria +43.720.881.959
AU – Australia +61.2.9191.6319
BE – Belgium +32.2.808.8662
BR – Brazil +55.11.3958.8707
CA – Canada +1.647.955.2275
CH – Switzerland +41.43.508.1539
D8 Timelines Updated!
Hi everyone,
D8 Timelines are up to date with:
1) Milestones for Long & Short term!
2) The mother of all Drupal 8 Milestone Spreadsheets full of details that just won't quit if you want to know the nitty gritty and what's "current" at any given time.
Hope this is helpful to you all & I hope we can soon get some monthly sprints organized around these bad boys!
-Shan
PS: Check out Gabor's D8MI creation if you haven't yet seen it! http://www.drupal8multilingual.org/
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Live Webinar: Taking Drupal Cross-platform
10 things you need to know to optimize a Drupal website for any device or platform.
When:
January 10th
North America – 2PM EST. Register Here
EMEA – 3PM GMT. Register Here
Drupal PM Podcast
There's a new podcast on Lullabot.com with some good PM discussion. What do you think?
http://www.lullabot.com/podcasts/drupalizeme-podcast-07-drupal-and-proje...
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Feedmine module integrates Drupal and Redmine and is under new maintainership
The maintainership request I filed for the Feedmine module just went through today and we're prepping a new release:
http://drupal.org/project/feedmine
For anyone who hasn't used it, here's the original description:
Read moreFeedmine is a Drupal feedback interface to Redmine, a Rails-based ticket / issue management system.
When enabled, its block allows users to enter website feedback information that is submitted as an issue into Redmine automatically so that the issue can be tracked, assigned and handled effectively.
Relationship with Freelancers
As Project Manager I'm from time to time facing the challenge of working with a client who is unaware of USA or Canadian laws about the relationship with a freelancer / independent contractor
A solution that worked for me is to educate the client. By “educate” I mean discussing with client about what I can do or not with freelancers. Within the legal boundaries.
Read morePM December meet up time change!
Hey y'all,
The december 11th PM meet up is now 8am EST fyi to accomodate Asia-Pac time zone for a change :)
-Shan
PS: Ryan rocked the Redmine Demo despite it being 3am where he is! Thanks a lot Ryan!!!
Read moreWas the Redmine demo helpful for you?
Knowledge Transfer Documents for Typical Drupal Project
Recently I came across with this question, “What all documents required for proper knowledge transfer of any Drupal Project"?
As usual I went to search on drupal.org but failed to find any document list so I started making it on my own.
So here is the list:
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Information about Infrastructure: Server/Environmental Details (Dev/QA/Prod/)
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Details of LAMP/WAMP Installations: Detailed info about Web server/DB/PHP
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Other Application used on Servers: In case of Cache Server/Media server.
How many of you do risk management?
Tag with Caution.
Hi everyone,
You've probably recently gotten about 15 updates about a camp in Mumbai -- Please don't unsubscribe. This might have been because someone tagged the PM audience in his post because he wanted some organizational help.
Personally, this annoys the crap out of me, and I'm sorry if you got inundated with emails :/ I kinda went mamabear on him, and I hope it doesn't happen again.
The focus of this group should be on Project, Portfolio & other management related issues to help people work through problems, share solutions, and where possible give a Drupal perspective.
Read moreAdding links -- Are you?
Hey peeps,
I've started adding some links to articles I like in our PM link wiki that Nigel put together for us...
http://groups.diigo.com/group/drupal-project-management
-Shan
Read moreInternational Project Management Day - Nov 1st => now Nov 15th ... thanks Sandy.
Hey guys,
Just a heads up, the event for the Int. PM day from IIL has been postponed to Nov 15th due to Sandy. Wahhn, wahhhn.
-Shan
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Bookmarking resource for Drupal Project Management Group
After a brief discussion initiated by Shannon, I have set up a bookmarking resource for the group. You can find it at: http://groups.diigo.com/group/drupal-project-management
Diigo supports tagging of bookmarks, sticky notes & annotations so that when you add the bookmark you can comment directly on the page, when others access via the bookmark they can see specific comments associated with that page left by others. (thanks to Adam Rasmussen for his input & support).
I have set it up as:
* public group so anyone can view
* listed in search results
* Open, so anyone can join
International Project Management Day - Nov 15th
Check out the 8th annual International Project Management Day!
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/9/prweb9915882.htm
IIL is hosting a day of webinars from some very influential leaders. I've been to some of these in the past, it's also a great opportunity to hobnob virtually with PM's.
Highly recommend if it's anything like past years!
-Shannon
^ UPDATE: POSTPONED TO THE 15TH
Read moreNov 1 is International Project Management Day!
Sweet, a day just for US! IIL is holding a day of virtual events to commemorate:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/9/prweb9915882.htm
I'll add it to the events in here for those interested :)
-Shan
