2. Project Management
& How do we do it!
Alina Kakshapati

3. Alina Kakshapati
Product Manager @codethemesco
@aleenak19

4. Two aspects to my title
- Project Management
- How do we do it?

5. “Project management is problem
solving on a deadline.”

6. Project Management is converting a vision, a dream or a need to reality.
OR
Just getting things done.

7. Why do companies use PM?
• To handle projects effectively in an organization.
• To estimate project cost and make proposals
• To plan & schedule activities in a project.
• To allocate the right resource at the right time.

8. But most importantly
• To lead a project team effectively and communicate well among team

9. Project Management is complex
- But doesn’t always have to be.
- Keeping things simple can help as well

10. How and Can WordPress help?
- Yes
- Remember Post Types?
- Comments?
- Taxonomy?

11. Taxonomy
- Taxonomy is a way to group things together.
- In WordPress, a "taxonomy" is a grouping mechanism for some posts or links or
custom post types.
- Project as Taxonomy.

12. Taxonomy - Projects

13. Taxonomy - Frontend

14. Post Type
- Single Item of content.
- Post in WordPress is a post type that is typical for and most used by blogs.
- Tasks as Custom Post Types.
- Meta data for additional information.

15. Post Type - Backend

16. Post Type – Post Meta

17. Post Type – Frontend

18. Comments
- Allows visitor to communicate with site owner and other readers.
- Allows discussion.
- Means of communication
- Threaded comments.

19. Comments - Backend

20. Comments - Front-end

21. But is it enough?
Chat Client for
Faster Communication
PM Tool
For Task Assigning

22. Chat
Use a chat client that you like or trust.
Some examples are
- Slack
- HipChat
Both have API so you can communicate with your PM Tool

23. PM Tool
- To add new team members
- New Projects and assigning them
- New tasks for projects and team members
- Comment acts as communication tool
- Example : Collab

24. Communication is transferring data that can be understood.

25. Is it effective?
A smaller example.
- We use it for our communication and Project Management for the past 2 years
- 215+ Projects
- 2,000+ Tasks
- 10,000+ Comments
- 300+ Project based documents
- 3,250+ Media uploads
- Concurrent 20+ users

26. But that’s a small company you say?

27. Here’s how “Automattic” handles work
- Slack for Chat
- P2 theme for Tasks and comments
- 550+ employees
- Work managed solely by WordPress powered backend

28. Why WordPress and not existing tools?
- Power in your hands
- Not all companies need large Project Management Tools
- Use what your company needs not what PM Tool dev company believes you need.

29. Project Management is simple. Let’s keep it that way.

30. Thank you
Project Management and how we do it!
@aleenak19
Product Manager @codethemesco