Lifecycle of a Drupal Project

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Lifecycle of a Drupal Project

Scott Bell – Senior Creative Lead
scott@appnovation.com

Scott Bell V Saturday June 2, 2012

•  Those new to the Web Industry
•  Those new to Drupal
•  Freelancers
•  Project Managers
•  Pretty much anybody

* Based on Waterfall, but most
of it applies to Agile projects


•  Introduction / About Me
•  Get The Project
•  Requirements Gathering
•  Design
•  Development
•  QA
•  Project Management


•  Hobby and user of <blink><table>
•  Netscape, Mosaic, Lycos, Infoseek
•  1994 14.4k Modem
•  I have the lowest ICQ number out of
most people I know. (2791847)
•  BCIT
I’m from Edmonton.
•  At Appnovation since 2008 (4 years) I love the Oilers.
Say what you want.

•  Designer, Developer, Project Manager,
Business Analyst


What we use


Some of Our Clients


•  Risk / Reward
•  Wireframes
•  Woo the client •  Mockups
•  Case Studies
•  Try to get a call •  Sitemaps
•  IA
•  Don’t get emotionally attached (yet) •  Examples of previous work

•  Figure out who the decision makers
are and cater your deliverable to
them
•  Do as much as you think is
necessary


•  Are they Technical people nor not?
•  Are they product owners?
•  Who makes the final call?
•  Does the decision come from higher up?

•  Find out by asking
•  Find out by being inquisitive
•  Google It
•  Take a wild guess!

Hint: Killer design skills will help


CLIENT: I want a basic e-commerce site
YOU: Great, Ubercart should give you what you need!

CLIENT: It works great, but can you do me small favor? I forgot to
mention that on odd numbered days we ship internationally for the
price of domestic shipping except when the shipment weighs over 15lbs
and it’s raining.

YOU: That wasn’t in the original requirements that you signed off on,
so I’ll put together a change request

SCOPE CREEP

•  Business Requirements
•  Functional Requirements
•  Technical Requirements


•  Requirements for business users such as customers,
employees, vendors.
•  Reasons for change
•  Success factors for the future
•  To gain agreement with stakeholders
•  Provide a foundation to communicate
•  Provides input into the next phase(s)
•  Describe what not how customer/business needs will be
met by the solution.


•  Why?
•  Why?
•  Why?
•  Why?


•  What are your goals in developing this system?
•  How will the system change the way you are currently doing
things?
•  How will the system help you be more efficient?
•  What are your current problems?
•  What do you do manually that you would like to automate?
•  What types of reports do you need?
•  Who will be using the system?
•  What is most important for the success of the application?


•  Increase sales on out of season products
•  Improve the checkout process
•  Get more repeat customers


•  Describes what the system must DO
•  Fullfill business requirements
•  Develop Use Cases
•  Process flows


•  The system must display products marked as featured
•  The system must support user profiles
•  The system must display products based on user behavior
•  The system must calculate shipping rates based on …


•  Title (goal)
•  Primary Actor
•  Goal (Business Objective)
•  Precondition
•  Priority

•  As the admin, I want to handpick products for the homepage
•  As a user, I want to upload a profile picture
•  As a user, I want to comment on a product
•  As a user, I want to share a product on my facebook wall


TITLE: As a user, I want to handpick products for the homepage
PRIMARY ACTORS: Administrative users, Content Managers
BUSINESS OBJECTIVE: Increase sales on out of season products
PRECONDITION: User must be logged in with sufficient privileges
PRIORITY: HIGH


•  How the system guides users from point A to point B

-  Publishing Workflows
-  User registration
-  Checkout Process


•  The system must process payments in 12 seconds or less
•  System downtime is only acceptable between 2AM – 4AM
Sunday morning.
•  The System must handle large spikes in traffic

•  Non-functional requirements
•  Quality of Service requirements
•  Constraints


IA/Wireframes Mockups Prototypes

•  OmniGraffle •  Photoshop •  TextEditor
•  Axure •  Fireworks •  Axure
•  Fireworks •  Illustrator •  Fireworks
•  DreamWeaver


Your name

•  Don’t send your raw files to the client
•  Organize your layers (http://photoshopetiquette.com/)
•  Be prepared to explain your decisions (Don Draper)
•  Use separate PSD files for each page
•  Be pixel perfect – Use grid system
•  Make a working prototype (static HTML) to communicate
intended behavior (animations, hovers, responsiveness)
•  Wireframe EVERY page (sitemap)
•  Mockup KEY pages
•  Specify the number of revisions in the contract

•  Set up code repositories (GIT / SVN)
•  Set up environments (local, dev, staging, prod)
•  Work with PM to create task lists
•  Documentation / Training Material
•  Demos
•  The product!


•  Test plan derived from FRD / Use cases
•  Bug Tracking system (Bugzilla, Jira)
•  Test in all major browsers, on windows, mac, mobile, tablet
•  Delivers internally tested product to client for UAT
•  UAT = User Acceptance Testing


•  Project Plan
•  Meeting Invites & Agendas
•  Meeting Minutes
•  Task lists
•  Status Reports
•  Demos
•  The product!


•  What is the work that will be performed on the project?
•  What are the deliverables?
•  Who is involved and what are their responsibilities?
•  What is the project timeline?
•  What are the Milestones?
GANTT Chart


•  Milestones
•  Changes
•  Existing – Things that have been accomplished
•  Time Spent (PM, Designer, Developer, QA)
•  Invoicing (invoice #, date, amount)
•  Recent Tasks
•  Next Week Tasks
•  Risks & Issues (Description, Mitigation/Impact, Status)
•  Decisions


Questions?


Thank You!
From Appnovation Technologies
Scott Bell – Senior Creative Lead
scott@appnovation.com


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