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![QUESTIONS TO GET ANSWERED
■ Launch Planning
■ What is our rollback plan, has it been tested?
■ What is our cutover plan? Who is responsible for each step?
■ How long is the TTL on the domain?
■ What does our robots.txt file look like?
■ What is team member [1-N]'s contact information.
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![QUESTIONS TO GET ANSWERED
■ Launch Planning
■ What is our rollback plan, has it been tested?
■ What is our cutover plan? Who is responsible for each step?
■ How long is the TTL on the domain?
■ What does our robots.txt file look like?
■ What is team member [1-N]'s contact information.
■ Who is making sure the beer stays cold?
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Management Strategies for Successful WordPress Projects
The document presents management strategies for WordPress projects led by Matthew Dorman, who has a background in development and manages the open source practice at Northpoint. It outlines various project management tools, methodologies, standards, and essential questions to consider throughout the project lifecycle, addressing aspects from planning to post-launch assessment. Additional resources are provided, including links to community meetups and documentation.
Management Strategies for Successful WordPress Projects
- 1. July 14, 2012 WordPressManagement Strategies - Matthew Dorman @matthewdorman 1
- 2.
- 3. INTRODUCTION ■ Matthew Dorman 2
- 4. INTRODUCTION ■ Matthew Dorman ■Background in Development / Computer Science 2
- 5. INTRODUCTION ■ Matthew Dorman ■Background in Development / Computer Science ■ Run the Open Source Practice at NorthPoint 2
- 6. INTRODUCTION ■ Matthew Dorman ■Background in Development / Computer Science ■ Run the Open Source Practice at NorthPoint ■ Projects Managed (not all WordPress): 2
- 7. INTRODUCTION ■ Matthew Dorman ■Background in Development / Computer Science ■ Run the Open Source Practice at NorthPoint ■ Projects Managed (not all WordPress): 2
- 8. OUTLINE 3
- 9.
- 10. OUTLINE ■ Extra Resources ■Common Project Management Tools 3
- 11. OUTLINE ■ Extra Resources ■Common Project Management Tools ■ Set Some Standards 3
- 12. OUTLINE ■ Extra Resources ■Common Project Management Tools ■ Set Some Standards ■ Techniques / Methodologies 3
- 13.
- 14. EXTRA RESOURCES ■ MonthlyWordPress Meetups 4
- 15. EXTRA RESOURCES ■ MonthlyWordPress Meetups ■ meetup.bostonwp.com 4
- 16. EXTRA RESOURCES ■ MonthlyWordPress Meetups ■ meetup.bostonwp.com ■ www.meetup.com/wordpressnyc 4
- 17. EXTRA RESOURCES ■ MonthlyWordPress Meetups ■ meetup.bostonwp.com ■ www.meetup.com/wordpressnyc ■ WordCamps (check that off the list) 4
- 18. EXTRA RESOURCES ■ MonthlyWordPress Meetups ■ meetup.bostonwp.com ■ www.meetup.com/wordpressnyc ■ WordCamps (check that off the list) ■ WordPress.org 4
- 19. EXTRA RESOURCES ■ MonthlyWordPress Meetups ■ meetup.bostonwp.com ■ www.meetup.com/wordpressnyc ■ WordCamps (check that off the list) ■ WordPress.org ■ http://wordpress.org/support 4
- 20.
- 21. PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS ■Paid Systems 5
- 22. PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS ■Paid Systems ■ JIRA w/ Greenhopper (Atlassian) 5
- 23. PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS ■Paid Systems ■ JIRA w/ Greenhopper (Atlassian) ■ BaseCamp 5
- 24. PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS ■Paid Systems ■ JIRA w/ Greenhopper (Atlassian) ■ BaseCamp ■ Pivotal Tracker 5
- 25. PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS ■Paid Systems ■ JIRA w/ Greenhopper (Atlassian) ■ BaseCamp ■ Pivotal Tracker ■ Open Source 5
- 26. PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS ■Paid Systems ■ JIRA w/ Greenhopper (Atlassian) ■ BaseCamp ■ Pivotal Tracker ■ Open Source ■ Open Atrium 5
- 27. PROJECT MANAGEMENT TOOLS ■Paid Systems ■ JIRA w/ Greenhopper (Atlassian) ■ BaseCamp ■ Pivotal Tracker ■ Open Source ■ Open Atrium ■ Redmine 5
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- 29. SET SOME STANDARDS ■Use Source / Version Control System 6
- 30. SET SOME STANDARDS ■Use Source / Version Control System ■ Code Reviews / Local Environments 6
- 31. SET SOME STANDARDS ■Use Source / Version Control System ■ Code Reviews / Local Environments ■ Performance Metrics 6
- 32. SET SOME STANDARDS ■Use Source / Version Control System ■ Code Reviews / Local Environments ■ Performance Metrics ■ Leverage WordPress’ API Library 6
- 33. SET SOME STANDARDS ■Use Source / Version Control System ■ Code Reviews / Local Environments ■ Performance Metrics ■ Leverage WordPress’ API Library ■ Reduce / Eliminate Custom SQL queries 6
- 34. SET SOME STANDARDS ■Use Source / Version Control System ■ Code Reviews / Local Environments ■ Performance Metrics ■ Leverage WordPress’ API Library ■ Reduce / Eliminate Custom SQL queries ■ Plugin Review Process 6
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- 36. TECHNIQUES / METHODOLOGIES ■Agile SCRUM 7
- 37. TECHNIQUES / METHODOLOGIES ■Agile SCRUM ■ Waterfall 7
- 38. TECHNIQUES / METHODOLOGIES ■Agile SCRUM ■ Waterfall ■ Test Driven Development 7
- 39. TECHNIQUES / METHODOLOGIES ■Agile SCRUM ■ Waterfall ■ Test Driven Development ■ Pair Programming 7
- 40. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED 8
- 41. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Before Project Begins 8
- 42. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Before Project Begins ■ While Project is Running 8
- 43. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Before Project Begins ■ While Project is Running ■ Launch Planning 8
- 44. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Before Project Begins ■ While Project is Running ■ Launch Planning ■ After Launch 8
- 45. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED 9
- 46. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Before Project Begins 9
- 47. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Before Project Begins ■ What is the launch date? What is driving that date? 9
- 48. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Before Project Begins ■ What is the launch date? What is driving that date? ■ What are the business goals and drivers for the project? 9
- 49. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Before Project Begins ■ What is the launch date? What is driving that date? ■ What are the business goals and drivers for the project? ■ How many resources do I have, how much money? 9
- 50. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Before Project Begins ■ What is the launch date? What is driving that date? ■ What are the business goals and drivers for the project? ■ How many resources do I have, how much money? ■ Who edits or maintains the site now, and have they used a CMS before? 9
- 51. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Before Project Begins ■ What is the launch date? What is driving that date? ■ What are the business goals and drivers for the project? ■ How many resources do I have, how much money? ■ Who edits or maintains the site now, and have they used a CMS before? ■ Is there an easier solution? 9
- 52. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Before Project Begins ■ What is the launch date? What is driving that date? ■ What are the business goals and drivers for the project? ■ How many resources do I have, how much money? ■ Who edits or maintains the site now, and have they used a CMS before? ■ Is there an easier solution? ■ Where are we hosting? 9
- 53. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Before Project Begins ■ What is the launch date? What is driving that date? ■ What are the business goals and drivers for the project? ■ How many resources do I have, how much money? ■ Who edits or maintains the site now, and have they used a CMS before? ■ Is there an easier solution? ■ Where are we hosting? ■ When will designs be final? 9
- 54. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED 10
- 55. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ While Project is Running 10
- 56. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ While Project is Running ■ What are my teams blockers, and how are they affecting the schedule? 10
- 57. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ While Project is Running ■ What are my teams blockers, and how are they affecting the schedule? ■ Where can I get a list of all the current site URLs? 10
- 58. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ While Project is Running ■ What are my teams blockers, and how are they affecting the schedule? ■ Where can I get a list of all the current site URLs? ■ Do we really need X number of plugins to do this piece of functionality? 10
- 59. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ While Project is Running ■ What are my teams blockers, and how are they affecting the schedule? ■ Where can I get a list of all the current site URLs? ■ Do we really need X number of plugins to do this piece of functionality? ■ That plugin is still in (dev/alpha/beta), do we have time to fix 10
- 60. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED 11
- 61. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Launch Planning 11
- 62. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Launch Planning ■ What is our rollback plan, has it been tested? 11
- 63. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Launch Planning ■ What is our rollback plan, has it been tested? ■ What is our cutover plan? Who is responsible for each step? 11
- 64. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Launch Planning ■ What is our rollback plan, has it been tested? ■ What is our cutover plan? Who is responsible for each step? ■ How long is the TTL on the domain? 11
- 65. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Launch Planning ■ What is our rollback plan, has it been tested? ■ What is our cutover plan? Who is responsible for each step? ■ How long is the TTL on the domain? ■ What does our robots.txt file look like? 11
- 66. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Launch Planning ■ What is our rollback plan, has it been tested? ■ What is our cutover plan? Who is responsible for each step? ■ How long is the TTL on the domain? ■ What does our robots.txt file look like? ■ What is team member [1-N]'s contact information. 11
- 67. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ Launch Planning ■ What is our rollback plan, has it been tested? ■ What is our cutover plan? Who is responsible for each step? ■ How long is the TTL on the domain? ■ What does our robots.txt file look like? ■ What is team member [1-N]'s contact information. ■ Who is making sure the beer stays cold? 11
- 68. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED 12
- 69. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ After Launch 12
- 70. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ After Launch ■ Did we meet our success criteria? 12
- 71. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ After Launch ■ Did we meet our success criteria? ■ What could we have done better as a team? 12
- 72. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ After Launch ■ Did we meet our success criteria? ■ What could we have done better as a team? ■ What could we have done better as an individual? 12
- 73. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ After Launch ■ Did we meet our success criteria? ■ What could we have done better as a team? ■ What could we have done better as an individual? ■ Who is tracking 404s or other errors? 12
- 74. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ After Launch ■ Did we meet our success criteria? ■ What could we have done better as a team? ■ What could we have done better as an individual? ■ Who is tracking 404s or other errors? ■ How do our metrics look? 12
- 75. QUESTIONS TO GETANSWERED ■ After Launch ■ Did we meet our success criteria? ■ What could we have done better as a team? ■ What could we have done better as an individual? ■ Who is tracking 404s or other errors? ■ How do our metrics look? ■ Traffic, bandwidth, SEO, etc. 12
- 76. SUMMARY 13
- 77.
- 78. SUMMARY ■ Extra Resources ■Common Project Management Tools 13
- 79. SUMMARY ■ Extra Resources ■Common Project Management Tools ■ Set Some Standards 13
- 80. SUMMARY ■ Extra Resources ■Common Project Management Tools ■ Set Some Standards ■ Techniques / Methodologies 13
- 81.
- 82. ANY QUESTIONS? Matthew Dorman @matthewdorman http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewdorman www.northps.com © NorthPoint and NorthPoint Solutions LLC 14
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