implementing scrum for drupal projects – a successful story and some failures behind it

Implementing Scrum in

Drupal Projectsa successful story and ... some failures behind it

About me

• Experience as a Project Manager in: I started as a PM dealing with Data

centers, servers and networks; then I moved to … a Telecom; and finally to a web development and ...

Propeople;

• In fell in love with the Agile methods (and Drupal, of course) for delivering projects;

• Outside the office: answering mails at bisersimeonov@gmail.com , football (CSKA Sofia #1), music (all kind of, really!), travelling

Where are we going in our approach of managing projects?

Anticipation VS Adaptation

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Waterfall approach – how it should be...

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Waterfall approach – how it could be…

What is the solution: Agile Manifesto

http://agilemanifesto.org/

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What is the solution?

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SCRUM – High level overview

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How SCRUM works in an ideal world

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SCRUM in some Drupal Projects

Lessons learned

• Start the project with Sprint 0;

• If the client wants to test you – offer him to run together with you 1 or 2 sprints;

• ‘Classic’ VS ‘Virtual’ Whiteboards;

• Highly motivated team is always the key;

What is doing the PM in SCRUM?

Lessons learned

How many items/task I can deliver within a single sprint?

VS

Lessons learned

How to explain to clients (and sometime to our sales guys) what Scrum actually is?

PM: I think we have to propose waterfall here because the client had divided its time schedule per phases (clarifications, dev, testing) as per a pure waterfall model …Sales guy: but can we make waterfall project plan, and then work Agile?

Lessons learned

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Lessons learnedUse an unified (single) system for listing User

stories / Epics Features Sub-tasks

Lessons learned

The trust between you and the client is also highly important BECAUSE a project with fixed scope, budget and deadline is NOT a Scrum

Lessons learned

Align with the client a clear project delivery process

Thank you!