Project Management

Description

The contract is signed, the project team is defined, and goals are set. So you’re probably thinking, let’s kick the project off. Although it’s exciting to jump in and make progress on a new project, there’s a lot to think about before getting started.

Successful projects are a result of great partnerships, and it’s important to establish a strong project team and be on the same page from the start. In this session, we’ll cover the importance of:

• Business and client team building, including inclusion and transparency

How much is this going to cost? When will this project be done? How much longer do you need to close out that ticket? We hear these questions routinely as developers. But, how do you answer these questions?

Case studies are great sales tools. But how many times have you gotten ready to submit a pitch, and realized you were missing case studies for the projects you want to highlight? You assumed somebody on the team would write one after the projected deployed, but everyone got reassigned to other projects, and it slipped through the cracks, again. And now you are sad. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Have you or your organization fallen victim to one of the classic website blunders? Was it organization by board member, stock photo syndrome, design by committee, vanishing volunteer web developer, or something else? We will discuss 10 classic website blunders we have witnessed that rendered potentially successful projects ineffective engagement tools, and tell you how to avoid them.

Takeaways:

In this session for beginners or more advanced developers, you'll learn how best practices for accessibility and search engine optimization (SEO), as implemented in the early stages of development, can improve (1) your site's chance of being found, and (2) guide the next iterations in your development cycle.

We’ve all been there. A large, complex project launches, but the project manager and/or client hadn’t seen the point in wasting time on testing. “You know what you’re doing – why do we need to pay extra?” Then, you watch helplessly as the launch goes off the rails and all that money that was saved by not doing testing is instead spent on hotfixes and emergency workarounds. 

Open Source Drupal Development is a specialty and so is Drupal Project Management. What can you do to ensure your next Drupal project is a huge success for your organization?

Join FFW Training & Enablement Director Ray Saltini as he shares some of FFW's experience working with some of the largest and most complex projects ever built with Drupal to help you understand and implement best practices at every stage of your project.