project management

What this is about:
We've been hearing a lot from the community about wanting more transparency with regard to the Drupal 8 initiatives and their advancement. Every two weeks, the Drupal 8 initiative owners, along with Dries, webchick, and a team of project managers have “scrum of scrum” calls where each person goes around and talks about what they worked on since last time, what they’re going to work on for next time, where they’re blocked, and how the community can help.

What this is about:
We've been hearing a lot from the community about wanting more transparency with regard to the Drupal 8 initiatives and their advancement. Every two weeks, the Drupal 8 initiative owners, along with Dries, webchick, and a team of project managers have “scrum of scrum” calls where each person goes around and talks about what they worked on since last time, what they’re going to work on for next time, where they’re blocked, and how the community can help.

Hi Drupalfolk -

I documented a bunch of the ideas/discussion points from Dries' D8 core convo on a blog post:

http://affinitybridge.com/blog/drupal-8-git-sprints-efficient-smooth

I am considering making a page/section in the Initiatives section on d.o but would really like a bit more input first - I got a lot of positive tweets and a couple more detailed comments, but I still am not sure exactly how much support there would be for this, nor how much more detail would need to be hashed out for it to become a method that people would be comfortable experimenting with.

Here's the tentative schedule for the focused BoFs on Project Management. I took the liberty of scheduling one over lunch; if there's a major objection to that, let me know.

• Tools - Wednesday, 10-11 in the Ontario room
• Methodologies - Wednesday, 12-1 in the Ontario room
• Multi-threading projects - Wedensday, 6-7 in the Ontario room

I put these all on Wednesday to leave time for any follow-ups on Thursday.

Hi Guys,

While I was entertaining the relatives this weekend, I couldn't help thinking about Drupal. It's a sickness really. I need to seek help. Before I do though, I wrote this blog post on the key areas I feel need to be explored before taking on a Drupal project. As we all know, some projects are bad bad bad. Some projects are really good. Going through this long rant list that I've compiled should give the new folks the benefit of what some of us older guys have already suffered. It's on my blog here: http://www.drupalcreations.com/blog/drupal-specifications Please feel free to disagree and comment in sarcastic and critical tones. Ideally we get a thread going and share some of the wealth.

I'm off to seek help now :) ,

I've found there's one common mistake that I've made as a Drupal developer/Consultant, time and time again: project management. I wrote a short blog about my learning experiences here: Project Management If you're new to the world of professional Drupal consulting, read it to prepare yourself. If you're old, please add some comments to help new recruits understand the value of working a plan.

I give some real world scenarios as examples of mistakes that I've made. It should illustrate why it is critical to follow every step of the project management process. It'll help you avoid a lot of the pain that I suffered through.

For anyone new to the world of Drupal consulting, you should really read through this blog.

Good luck and May the force be with you,

Hey, just thought you other PM types would be interested in reading Lisa Rex's post on PMing the Drupal.org Redesign: http://growingventuresolutions.com/blog/drupal-org-redesign-not-your-typ...

I've been reading an Agile book called Agile Coaching http://pragprog.com/titles/sdcoach/agile-coaching off and on when I get some spare time, and it talks a bunch about the project manager's role and impact in setting the tone for the team. We are often the one person who talks to each developer on a regular basis, is very much in tune with management/owner(s), and also talks to the clients directly.

In response to several posts in this group.

Telamenta is a South African based Drupal Company. We are 2 1/2 years old. I have many years experience in coding and project management. We have worked very hard over the last 2 years to optimize our quoting for clients. I play the role of scrum master and lead developer in the company. We use the following methodologies and tools.

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Hey fellow PMs - I kept seeing and hearing people asking about Agile and how to manage estimating and billing for clients within that method, and wrote a blog post about it: http://affinitybridge.com/blog/managing-budgets-and-billing-while-practi...

Would love to hear your feedback (feel free to comment there as well if you like) and continue the discussion here!