Sessions at Open Source Bridge 2011 about Project Management

Tuesday 21st June 2011

• How 5 People with 4 Day Jobs in 3 Time Zones Enjoyed 2 Years Writing 1 Book

  by Ian Dees

  In May 2008, five busy programmers in town for a conference sat down for dinner and decided to do a book together. We dreamed big dreams for the project scope, made big plans for technical collaboration, and yes, made big mistakes as we worked. Two years later, reality looks really different than we'd imagined--better, in fact.

  In this talk, you'll hear about:
  * Getting through the Trough of Sorrow
  * What to do when you have all the responsibility and no authority
  * Laughing at your estimates (and getting stakeholders to laugh with you)
  * What worked for us (and what might or might not work for you)
  * Lessons for freelancers, telecommuters, and distributed teams

  • Books
  • Distributed Teams
  • Project Management
  • Ruby
  • Teams

  At 11:00am to 11:45am, Tuesday 21st June

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Wednesday 22nd June 2011

• Open Source Communities Panel

  by Chris Strahl, Noirin Plunkett, Jane Wells, Audrey and Asheesh Laroia

  More details soon...

  • Diversity
  • Mentoring
  • outreach
  • people
  • Project Management

  At 10:00am to 11:45am, Wednesday 22nd June

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• Improving Estimates for Web Projects

  by Alex Kroman

  In this session you will learn:

  • Alternatives to delivering a fixed hours estimate
  • A simple method for quickly estimating projects from vague requirements
  • How to work with developers, designers, and sales people to quickly deliver estimates
  • Improving your estimation ability over time
  • Business
  • Design
  • Estimation
  • Project Management
  • Web Development

  At 4:45pm to 5:30pm, Wednesday 22nd June

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Thursday 23rd June 2011

• Technical Debt

  by Elizabeth Naramore

  Technical debt is something that most project teams or independent developers have to deal with - we take shortcuts to push out releases, deadlines need to be met, quick fixes slowly become the standard. In this talk, we will discuss what technical debt is, when it is acceptable and when it isn't, and strategies for effectively managing it, both on an independent and team level.

  • Project Management
  • Technical Debt

  At 1:30pm to 2:15pm, Thursday 23rd June

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