The document discusses a meetup on web/agile product management using Pivotal Tracker. The meetup aims to introduce participants to project management and agile concepts through hands-on exercises using Pivotal Tracker. Participants will be paired into expert and novice groups to complete sample exercises developing user stories and monitoring resources. The document also provides brief overviews of other project management tools like Trello, Basecamp, and Jira.

1. Web/Agile Product Management
Web Product Mangement with Pivotal Tracker
8/18/2014
Prepared by David Kim (@findinbay) for PM Fast Track (@pmfasttrack)
(daviddarden11@gmail.com)

2. Goals
● Dig deeper into web product management
● Intro understand project management - 7pm
● In particular, take pivotal tracker for a test run:
– Paired exercise
– In group
● And then step out, and connect the tool to the
craft of product management
– Talk by Pivotal, shortly after 8pm

3. Wiki – agile project management
● Agile project management is an iterative and
incremental method of managing the design
and build activities for engineering, information
technology, and new product or service
development projects in a highly flexible and
interactive manner, for example agile software
development.
● http://agilemanifesto.org/
● Metaphor – have you climbed a mountain?
– It's incremental, not one giant leap → agile process

4. (Meetup team formation)
● 'Experts' – those who've used the tools:
– Atlassian Jira/Confluence or Pivotal Tracker
– Trello, Basecamp, Asana, Nama PM, Better, etc.
● Others are 'N00bs'
● Pairing – ideally expert & n00b
● Sample apps:
– The Odin Project (real project)
– Bridge Troll (real project)
– See others: Pivotal community projects

5. Group: questions and metaphors
● How does your team communicate product
roadmap?
– Is it a list?
– Is it visual?
– Is it verbal?
● How does your team monitor and measure
resources?
● Sit next to your pair. Close your eyes. Give each
other a hi-five. Now open eyes. Try again.

6. Team exercise – write user stories
● Goals
– Discover users with
stories about Code
School
– Get them to share
stories
● Constraints
– Cost effective
– Super quick
– Maintain brand

7. 2x2: Tools – choose your axes

8. Building philosophy
● Recognize that Pivotal Tracker was built by team
Pivotal to reflect its approach to building software
– Agile, collaborative, enables extreme
programming → velocity feature, for instance
● Same for Basecamp … so,
● As a PM, make sure you understand the problem and
the building approach that fits the problem

9. What's next?
● 8/21/14 –
How not to suck at project management with
John Cwikla
● Subscribe to weekly PM newsletter -
http://productmanagementfasttrack.com/blog/
● Check in on ilovecodeschool.com

10. Appendix: Trello
● Super lean

11. Appendix: Basecamp
● Lean

12. Appendix: Atlassian
● Jira