1. Project Management a Real Story
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2. Expectations

4. Thank you organizers of
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#joomlarocks

5. .
Victor Drover (Milwaukee, WI)
Vali Barbu-Nicusor (Romania)
Jef Channell (USA)
Yannick Gaultier (France)
Ron van Schaik (Canada)

6. .
Victor Drover
Vali Barbu-Nicusor
Jef Channell
Ron van Schaik
Francesco Abeni
Pierr-Andre
Pizzotti David
Allan

8. What is your top challenge of
project management?
Tools
Forgetting to do the m anagem ent bit and gett
sw am ped w ith 'doing' the w ork
resource allocation
Team agreem ent
clarity

9. Project Management Tools

10. Boring

11. Fear of Judgment

12. Change = Risk

13. It's just another system

14. Project management tools don't
solve problems

15. It takes a lot of work

16. What PM systems do not do

17. What is Project management
anyway?

18. Accidental PM

19. PM process

20. Agency Perspective
Close the sale
Great Design
Great Development
Marketing!

21. Be On Time
“We didn’t lose the
game, we just ran
out of time.”
-Vince Lombardi

22. Startup Perspective
Get More Sales
Great Design
Great Development
Marketing!

23. Freelancer Perspective
I want to eat

24. Freelancer Process
Budge, Scope
Lets Get This Party Started!

25. Agency Process
Budget, scope
Great! Lets get started
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26. We have a new project!
Can you help me estimate it
And BTW I agreed on price and scope

27. U nderbid
All nighters
Team is unhappy
The Client is un happy

28. How do you change this?

29. “This w hole collaboration, w e'l
w ork together as a team '... I fn
it f***ing dif cult...”
-D ec 2010 Fast C om pany Article

30. Project troubles

31. Don't screw your team members

32. You forget to add in 480 hours

33. Planning & Estimating

34. Team buy in

35. highest priority

36. Team Values and culture

37. Accountability
Acknow ledgm ent
Finds Solutions rather than Blam e others

38. Commitment
“W inning is not a som etim e thing, it is an all th
tim e thing. You don’t do things right once in a
w hile… you do them right all the tim e.”
-Vince Lom bardi

39. Humor

40. Mind reading

41. Information Gathering

42. Communication

43. Respect Your Teammates!

44. High Performance Teams
I began to think about all the jobs I had held a
realized that the m ore I felt respected and
respected the organization, its leaders, m y tea
m em bers, and the w ork that I did has a lot to
w ith project success

45. Speaking of Gratitude
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46. How does your team work?
“P eople w ho w ork together w ill w in, w heth
it be against co m plex football defenses, or
the problem s of m odern society.”
-Vince Lom bardi

47. Contact info

48. Complete Your Tasks

49. houseclean
“just a friendly
rem inder from the
housecleaner close
your git hub tasks”
-Pierre-André Vullioud
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50. Problems

51. How many people are active on
social media?

52. There is no emotion in virtual
communication
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(y) = Thum bsup
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53. Bad communication is a project
killer

54. The Project
There are tw o fundam ental roles in any busine
transaction,
a custom er (one w ho w ants or needs som ethi
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and a provider (one w ho has or can acquire th
sam e thing).
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55. Bringing these two roles together
has been a challenge mankind has
faced since IT was born

56. Since we invented IT, the single
biggest challenge has been
communicating what the customer
wants in a manner that the
developers can deliver.

57. Defne each deliverable in detail.

58. Defne the acceptance terms for
every deliverable.

59. summary of all deliverables and
track them throughout the project.

60. Remember, it is never too late to
course-correct a project.

61. The client

62. review the SOW with your client
before it is signed.

63. Lead a great kickof meeting

64. Limit customer representation in the
kickof meeting.

65. Discrepancies

66. Communicate everything.

67. Deliver bad news early.

68. Keep them informed of the project
budget status.

69. Progress Report
Project
Project M anager (insert your nam e)
Date (Rem em ber to change this)

70. Progress Reports (continued)
Tasks com pleted last w eek
Tasks to be com pleted this w eek
Web project schedule update
Project com pletion %
Q uestions, com m ents

71. Involve senior management.

72. Acceptance

73. Strive for 2 hour em ail replies
Show your customer you are
connected.

74. Content

75. Task Content small Pieces
About Us Page
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Show exam ples
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Review it
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Praise them
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76. Deliver.

77. Assess & Success

80. Tweet Request
Hey @ron_v_s #keep That Sh!t up!
#yourock

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the making of this presentation

82. Community Rocks
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