Business and Strategy

Summary

Description

Using the Drupal community as an example, we will look at the many ways mentoring fits into all the experience layers of an open source project.

Customer obsession is easy to talk about but hard to do. It requires redesigning your company's practices, marketing engagement technology and data to achieve greater customer retention, customer enrichment and customer advocacy. And it requires skilled resources that understand both marketing needs and technology capabilities.

Tracy will share insights on how leading firms have reinvented their approach to collaborative marketing and tech management planning, implementation and management.

Not all projects in the public sector have to follow the traditional waterfall lifecycle.  When NIAID asked Squishymedia to help add an API to the 3DPrint.nih.gov site it seemed like an ideal project for an agile scrum methodology, so we dove right in and tried it.  Did the scrum team successfully portage the project canoe around the waterfall?

Drupal 8 is right around the corner and unless you have either been involved in Code Sprints or even know what a Code Sprint is then this session is for you.  I will take us on a journey of all the scary things that Non-Developers fear and bring us out into the world of Developers lingo, thinking and strategies.  After this session you will be able to overcome your Octophobia and walk and talk Drupal 8 with the best of them.

Session includes:

The decision to open source a set of code is easy when the owner of that code is an individual, but when the owner of the code is an organization the decision is more complicated. Advance planning to clarify the organization's open sourcing goals, the procedures by which code must be reviewed prior to release, and the expectations of maintainership post-release can help avoid problems and result in greater success in the long run.

You have been assigned a project, now what? Managing technical projects can be confusing if you don’t know where to start.

What exactly is a project and how do I keep it from running me instead of me running it? What’s this scope thing and why are people always talking about it ‘creeping’? Who are all these stakeholders and what do I do with them?

This session is designed to help answer those questions and discuss best practices when managing a project. During this session, we’ll cover:

In the past 3 years, Drupal has firmly established itself as the preferred CMS of the Australian Government. Much of this adoption was driven by policies mandating the consideration of open source technologies and website accessibility, with Drupal being publicly endorsed as meeting these requirements by the Australian Government's Chief Technology Officer.

Once upon a time (2009), a consulting group estimated that producing a new (awesome) DOI.gov web presence would cost a bit more than $11 million. Naturally, we didn't take their recommended path. Instead (after a few years of research, conversation and negotiation), we awarded a contract for platform-as-a-service cloud hosting and Drupal architecture for all of the Department's bureaus (10) and offices (many). We arranged for new designs and migrated DOI.gov to the new platform. BSEE.gov is under construction. 

The world has gone digital and great digital experiences have changed the relationships of people to technology and citizens to government.

The role of technology has shifted to that of an effective enabler rather than being the primary focus. In the increasingly fast-paced world of technology innovation, businesses and governments are being challenged to use the latest digital technologies to provide and sustain engaging experiences and deliver information and services anywhere, anytime on any device.

Gathering requirements is equal parts art and science, and the success of your entire project depends on doing it right. No matter what project methodology you're using, there are some simple rules that can help you collect and document the right information upfront, so that your team knows what to build and your client gets what they need (not just what they say they want). You’ll leave this interactive session armed with tools you can begin using immediately to make your next project a success.