Amye Scavarda

Osbridge2

Biography

I am:

  • a project manager based out of Portland

I like:

  • good websites and a good fight about what makes them good
  • opinions, standards, processes, and conversations about when they break
  • useful things that can be beautiful, but maybe not intrinsically beautiful
  • a good, well-thought out user experience
  • a good glass of wine

Open Source Bridge 2011

Sessions for this user

* Sales-fu

Tricky to master. Sometimes the last thing you care about. (Let me code already, dammit.) However, a small amount of work on your sales-fu will pay off. So let's do this thing.
Business
Amye Scavarda

Open Source Bridge 2010

Sessions for this user

* Functional Requirements: Thinking Like A Pirate

Creating functional requirements as a part of the planning process is like creating a treasure map. You want to get compensated for the value your cool built-with-open-source-thing is providing to your clients. Your clients want it to work better than what they originally had in mind. If you do the work upfront, you'll know when you've hit the X marks the spot.
Business
Amye Scavarda, Bill Fitzgerald

* You Shall Not Pass: Managing Expectations and Boundaries with Clients

Open Source is great fun, even in the area of professional services. But sometimes, you want to be able to pay the bills with your awesomeness too. One of the areas of difficulty is setting boundaries with clients, even though you really just want to write amazing stuff.
Business
Amye Scavarda, Chris Strahl