lessons learned from an international drupal project (drupalcampbaltics 2015)
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GyprocLessons Learned From an International Drupal Project
Ivar Laks
Drupalcamp Baltics 2015
1 Project overview2 Demo
3 Lessons learned4 Questions
What’s up?
Ivar Laks
Project manager
170 experts
in 9 countries
CLIENT
Client
Client
MARKET
MARKET
Client
Client
Client
GOAL
1 More efficient use of internal resources
Project goals
2 Increase customer satisfaction
Project goals
3 Increase sales through value added products
Project goals
(DISTRIBUTED)TEAM
Team
PMDevelopmentAnalysisSales
DiscoveryDesign
Development
PODesignContentConten
t
ContentMarketingSteering
group
Hosting
DEMO
Start September 2014
Finish April 2015
LESSONS LEARNED
1 Establish playing rules: workflow, process, roles
Lessons learned
2 Client education at the beginning of the project
Lessons learned
3 Define the biggest risks (known unknowns) and tackle these at the
beginning of the project
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4 Make risks transparent to the client
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5 Have face to face meetings
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6 Have retrospective meetingswith the client
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7 Start with the content creation with real data as early as possible
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8 Migration > establish guidelines how to provide data
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9 Make sure all the key team members are involved in the
project Lessons learned
10 Streamline testing
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11 Make scope changes visible to the whole team
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12 Define a format for the client how to write requirements
Lessons learned
13 When a task is too vague to estimate do not take the
commitment
Lessons learned
SUMMARY
Client