Project Management Should be Boring!
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Many people see project management as the art of trying to please everyone and pleasing no one, while trying not to go too far over deadline and too far over budget. It doesn't have to be that way. Good project management can be so predictable and reliable that it's almost boring. Here's what works in real projects.
Description
Many software projects suffer from long release schedules, feature freezes, painful QA processes, awkward merges, version number debates, backwards compatibility paralysis — oh, and customers who aren’t completely delighted.
Project management doesn’t have to be this way.
Several real-world projects have solved these problems with a combination of iteration, refactoring, continual improvement, reflection, and low-ceremony processes. The solutions aren’t all simple or easy, but they’re easy to understand, and they’re within your grasp. This talk will tell you what’s possible and recommend concrete steps to improve your project management.
Tags
project management, release schedules, agile, xp
Speaker
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chromatic x
Onyx Neon Inc.- Website: http://www.onyxneon.com/
- Blog: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/
- Twitter: chromatic_x
- Identi.ca: chromatic
Biography
chromatic has a decade of experience contributing to free and open source software projects. He’s contributed to Perl 1, Perl 5, and Perl 6, and is a lead developer of the Parrot virtual machine. You may recognize him from the books Modern Perl, Modern Perl Testing, Parrot Developer’s Guide, How to Cook Forty Humans with Perl, and Defeating the Inevitable Zombie Apocalypse with Perl and Parrot.
He is the publisher of Onyx Neon Press, focusing on producing great books about software, technology, and modern living. In his spare time, he writes novels and works on secret projects to improve the world.
He does not advocate the inevitable zombie apocalypse, but forewarned is forearmed.
Sessions
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- Title: Project Management Should be Boring!
- Track: Cooking
- Room: Marquam
- Time: 3:50 – 4:35pm
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Excerpt:
Many people see project management as the art of trying to please everyone and pleasing no one, while trying not to go too far over deadline and too far over budget. It doesn’t have to be that way. Good project management can be so predictable and reliable that it’s almost boring. Here’s what works in real projects.
- Speakers: chromatic x
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- Title: Introduction to Parrot
- Track: Hacks
- Room: Morrison
- Time: 10:00 – 10:45am
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Excerpt:
This talk briefly explains the overall architecture of Parrot and teaches the skills needed to get started hacking in Parrot.
- Speakers: chromatic x