Managing a Drupal Program & Parallel Development Initiative

Don't let the title fool you, in this context "program" doesn't refer to Drupal as software, but to multiple concurrent projects aligned toward a unified goal. Persons interested in managing and executing a program (multiple projects at once) and a parallel Drupal development initiative should attend this session.

In large and complex organizations, adopting Drupal and deploying sites over multiple organizations can either be a chaotic mess or a strategically aligned initiative. Creating a healthy, honest and organized project and program environment will sanely combine people, process, and technology. In the end, voila - Drupal! Yay! Woo Hoo!

It isn't that easy.

There are a lot of moving parts in a single project and it can exponentially get crazier with each additional project in a program. Add people and timelines in the mix and building the site is the easiest part of the program. :-)

Big Ideas

• Getting started.
• Analyzing the need.
• Defining the program.
• Getting cats into a herd. Uhh... Creating the team(s). :)
• Identifying Requirements. This part is really important. :-)
• Create Technical Strategy - Defining shared and unique functionality.
• Planning for efficiency - build a feature once, deploy to many sites.
• Working in parallel. Keep things moving.
• Training the business users.
• Preparing for production.
• Keep people happy.

Presenter: Aimee Degnan, Hook 42 CEO

• Stanford Certified Project Manager
• Project Management Professional
• Certified Scrum Master
• Certified Scrum Product Owner
• Drupal / Enterprise CMS Architect
• Professional Cat Herder