web product management tools
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Web product management, tools, approach, understanding - prepared for PM Fast Track meetup event at Pivotal with Pivotal TrackerTRANSCRIPT
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Web/Agile Product Management
Web Product Mangement with Pivotal Tracker
8/18/2014
Prepared by David Kim (@findinbay) for PM Fast Track (@pmfasttrack)([email protected])
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Goals
● Dig deeper into web product management● Intro understand project management - 7pm● In particular, take pivotal tracker for a test run:
– Paired exercise
– In group
● And then step out, and connect the tool to the craft of product management– Talk by Pivotal, shortly after 8pm
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● Agile project management is an iterative and incremental method of managing the design and build activities for engineering, information technology, and new product or service development projects in a highly flexible and interactive manner, for example agile software development.
● http://agilemanifesto.org/
● Metaphor – have you climbed a mountain?– It's incremental, not one giant leap → agile process
Wiki – agile project management
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(Meetup team formation)
● 'Experts' – those who've used the tools:– Atlassian Jira/Confluence or Pivotal Tracker
– Trello, Basecamp, Asana, Nama PM, Better, etc.
● Others are 'N00bs'● Pairing – ideally expert & n00b● Sample apps:
– The Odin Project (real project)
– Bridge Troll (real project)
– See others: Pivotal community projects
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● How does your team communicate product roadmap? – Is it a list?
– Is it visual?
– Is it verbal?
● How does your team monitor and measure resources?
● Sit next to your pair. Close your eyes. Give each other a hi-five. Now open eyes. Try again.
Group: questions and metaphors
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Team exercise – write user stories
● Goals– Discover users with
stories about Code School
– Get them to share stories
● Constraints– Cost effective
– Super quick
– Maintain brand
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2x2: Tools – choose your axes
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● Recognize that Pivotal Tracker was built by team Pivotal to reflect its approach to building software
– Agile, collaborative, enables extreme programming → velocity feature, for instance
● Same for Basecamp … so,
● As a PM, make sure you understand the problem and the building approach that fits the problem
Building philosophy
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● 8/21/14 – How not to suck at project management with John Cwikla
● Subscribe to weekly PM newsletter - http://productmanagementfasttrack.com/blog/
● Check in on ilovecodeschool.com
What's next?
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● Super lean
Appendix: Trello
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● Lean
Appendix: Basecamp
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● Jira
Appendix: Atlassian