The presentation discusses the challenges and characteristics of successful and hopeless (death march) projects in the field of IT. It highlights planning issues, communication problems, maintenance complexities, and team motivation factors affecting project outcomes. It also explores the dynamics of a large-scale project involving numerous developers, QA engineers, and clients.

1. Спикер:
Тема презентации:
Ігор Савка
Як вижити в безнадійному проекті

2. Roadmap
• Successful and hopeless (Death March) projects
• Planning issues
• Communication problems
• Maintenance
• Team motivation

3. Successful project
Delivered:
• on time;
• on budget;
• with required features and functions.

4. Death March project
• Schedule has been compressed;
• Staff has been reduced;
• Budget and associated resources have been cut.

5. Distribution of Success and Failure Across IT Projects

6. Challenged projects

7. My Death March project
• Full life cycle
• Big application suite
• 300+ developers
• 200+ QA engineers
• 30+ teams
• 20+ clients

8. Planning issues
• Planning from top to bottom
• Decision making
• Reprioritization
• Lack of statistical data

9. Communication/collaboration problems
• Team <–> Team collaboration
• Team <–> Client communication

10. Maintenance
• 20+ Version, 5+ Configuration
• Infrastructure
• Support
• Quality Assurance

11. Types of Death March projects

12. Team motivation
Motivation
• Financial motivation - Hygiene factors
(e.g. status, job security, salary, fringe benefits, work
conditions)
• Non-financial motivation - Motivators
(e.g. challenging work, recognition, responsibility)

13. Philosophize

15. Questions
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