Growing Your Internal Drupal Team or Service Line

Experience level: 
Intermediate
Session Track: 

Business and Strategy

The purpose of this track is two-fold - one angle helps you to understand the advantages of Drupal from an organizational leadership angle and the other is to highlight the great Drupal sites and projects you're working on and to show what's possible. These sessions are business focused, and will be non-technical.

Speaker(s): 
Jsnoles49

As Drupal has grown so have the companies that provide its services.  Almost all Drupal providers have started out as passionate development focus companies.  In this session I would like to talk about my experiences helping bring operations and business processes to a technology led organization.  Most Drupal companies were founded in passion for the technology.  As they have grown, there has been an increased need for passion in the business & operations roles that help convert Drupal Companies into Agencies.

 

Drupal Development Company

Drupal Agency


 

This session will focus on the process of organizing, monitoring/tooling, and growing your organization.

 

Organizing

  • Drupal Agency Service Lines

    • Explanation of the lines

    • List of services provided by each service line (activities and deliverables)

    • Benefits

    • Sourcing

  • Structuring Teams in a Drupal Agency

    • Service line division vs Project stage division

    • The Game -- mini companies

 

Monitoring/Tooling

  • Monitoring

    • Leading Indicators

    • Process & Templates

    • Flash Reports

      • Automation

      • Un-automation

  • Tooling

    • Reporting

      • Team

      • Company

    • Project Management

    • Development

    • Systems

 

Growing

  • Administration - Changing   “The Overhead Team”  into “The Growth Team”

    • HR

    • Sales

    • Marketing

    • Directors