Implementing Scrum for Drupal Projects – a successful story and some failures behind it
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The document discusses the implementation of Scrum in Drupal projects, highlighting both successes and challenges encountered. It emphasizes the importance of starting with a sprint 0, maintaining client trust, and delivering a clear project process. Additionally, it contrasts traditional waterfall methods with Agile practices, advocating for a unified system for managing user stories and tasks.
Implementing Scrum for Drupal Projects – a successful story and some failures behind it
- 1. Implementing Scrum in Drupal Projects a successful story and ... some failures behind it
- 2. 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
- 3. Where are we going in our approach of managing projects?
- 4. Anticipation VS Adaptation Image source: http://www.collab.net/services/training/agile_e-learning
- 5. Waterfall approach – how it should be... Image source: http://www.collab.net/services/training/agile_e-learning
- 6. Waterfall approach – how it could be…
- 7. What is the solution: Agile Manifesto http://agilemanifesto.org/ Image source: http://www.collab.net/services/training/agile_e-learning
- 8. What is the solution? Image source: http://www.dilbert.com/
- 9. SCRUM – High level overview Image source: http://www.collab.net/services/training/agile_e-learning
- 10. How SCRUM works in an ideal world Image source: http://www.collab.net/services/training/agile_e-learning
- 11. SCRUM in some Drupal Projects
- 12. 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;
- 13. Lessons learned What is doing the PM in SCRUM?
- 14. Lessons learned How many items/task I can deliver within a single sprint? VS
- 15. Lessons learned How to explain to clients (and sometime to our sales guys) what Scrum actually is? Image source: http://www.implementingscrum.com/section/blog/cartoons/ 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?
- 16. Lessons learned Use an unified (single) system for listing User stories / Epics Features Sub-tasks
- 17. 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
- 18. Lessons learned Align with the client a clear project delivery process
- 19. Thank you!