Web product management tools
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The document outlines a presentation on web product management using Pivotal Tracker, emphasizing the iterative nature of agile project management. It includes team exercises, discussions about communication methods for product roadmaps, and recommendations for choosing tools based on building philosophies. Future events and resources for learning about project management are also mentioned.
Web product management tools
- 1. Web/Agile Product Management Web Product Mangement with Pivotal Tracker 8/18/2014 Prepared by David Kim (@findinbay) for PM Fast Track (@pmfasttrack) (daviddarden11@gmail.com)
- 2. 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
- 3. Wiki – agile project management ● 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
- 4. (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
- 5. Group: questions and metaphors ● 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.
- 6. 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
- 7. 2x2: Tools – choose your axes
- 8. Building philosophy ● 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
- 9. What's next? ● 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
- 10. Appendix: Trello ● Super lean
- 11. Appendix: Basecamp ● Lean
- 12. Appendix: Atlassian ● Jira