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Drupalcon MunichHere we go again! Drupalcon Munich is just around the corner - August 20 - 24th. That may seem like a long time, but for a veteran of organizing one of these events, I can tell you that the work is ramping up rapidly. All my best to our friends and colleagues over the pond who are, undoubtably, working like crazy. I'm looking forward to enjoying the next convention not being behind the scenes.

Over the last few months I've presented on Agile Scrum twice. Once, as one of the Drupalcamp Austin Keynotes and a second time at Drupalcon Denver with my good friend Stacey Harrison. The presentation evolved from one of the events to the next. I've continued to wear my presenter hat and am ready to do Mark III on the topic of Hybrid Agile Project Management.

Learn from the experiences of Examiner.com's team. We've done it all - cowboy, waterfall, extreme, and agile scrum.

Learn why...

  • Waterfall doesn't always work
  • Agile has a place, but isn't the holy grail
  • Cowboy can kill the relationships you have with your stakeholders
  • How "Fixed Scope" is a lie
  • That a combination of approaches is the answer
  • The Examiner team has carefully honed, updated, improved, and iterated its process for over two years. It continues to evolve, improve, and make development more consistent and predictable.

Project management requires a blend of techniques and tools to effectively shepherd projects from ideation to release. We'll explore and discuss different tools and methodologies that can help make your project successful.

I'd love the opportunity to continue to share my learnings over the last 16 years with a particular focus on the immediate previous 9-12 months. Examiner's process has changed, evolved, improved, and continues to become increasingly awesome. If you're interested in seeing me present, please pop onto my proposal and leave a supporting comment!

Over the last few years I have become great friends with Rick Nashleanas of Monarch Digital. On the last day of Drupalcon Denver, he and I spent quite a few hours chatting, eating, and drinking and ended up cooking up a plan to present together. We're hoping this first faure together might occur in Munich. Come chat with us about recruiting and retention, about active listening and communicating, and about being mentored and mentoring.

Drupal has been around for about a decade. Information Technology predates it about about 5000 years - the Premechanical, the Mechanical, and the Electromechanical segued into The Electronic Age in the 1940s. In the 1950s what we would recognize a Project Management began evolving. There have been Project Management truisms across time.

Sit with two veteran IT managers and leaders (who also predate Drupal) to discuss:

  • Recruiting - Where and HOW do you find people?
  • Retention - How do you keep and nurture those you have?
  • Zen and the art of listening... and hearing. How to hear your clients, your peers, your subordinates, and those you report to.
  • Mentorship - Designers, Coders, Project Managers - How to grow within and beyond your discipline.

Attendees should bring questions and ideas that can be explored by the entire group.

If you'd like to see Rick and me engage in entertaining, informational, and engaging buffoonery - please write a supportive comment on our proposal. Here's to our next community event! Sharing, contributing, and participating brings me joy. I hope I get the chance in Munich.

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