Lessons Learned From an International Drupal Project (DrupalCampBaltics 2015)

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

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