Project Management

Drupal Camp Asheville 2024 - July 12th-14th

Promising Project Evaluation: How To Get Your Weekends Back

Jaspreet Singh
Axelerant

Estimations are the baseline of every project. If you will perform unreliable estimates subsequently it will lead you and your team to burn the midnight oil or work over the weekends to meet timelines. We have practiced beautifully to take both project timelines and work-life balance seriously.

Getting an angry wet cat to purr: turning an unhealthy client relationship into a productive one

Donna Bungard
Kanopi Studios

High demands, high anxiety clients are a reality of agency life. Their stresses, deadlines, and sometimes lack of understanding of the technology can create tension and take a project (or the client relationship) off track. Together we’ll discuss common challenges and the strategies that satisfy the clients need while insulating your team; allowing them to be more effective.

Building an Intuitive Admin: Usability for the Forgotten End-User

Stephen Lucero
Forum One

Nearly every new project focuses heavily on the flashy design and fancy tools it'll make for its visitors. So much focus is driven into the site user's experience to make it intuitive and pleasant, but in many cases this ignores the users that will visit the site more than anybody else: the content editors.

Solve the right problems to build great websites

Joe Meersman
Elevated Third

A smart programmer is not the one who fixes all the problems, but rather, the one who understands what the problems worth fixing are. When discussing quality software, everyone talks about unit tests and test-driven development, only a small piece of building good software. In this session, we'll explore validation and verification beyond software tests.