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Project managing, managing expectations

They are like me when i started out as a project manager, no idea of what the project involves or what value it provides.

It's up to you to show them that value.

It's very important that you not let anything get to you as a PM.

Have to be very clear that custom code has to be reported.

"How much Drupal do you feel you have to know? Our project managers want to know Drupal but they don't want to build sites. How much about Drupal, about development, do project managers have to know?"

We started with picking up copies of "Using Drupal".

WhiteHouse.gov keynote at DrupalCon

Open comment from the public.

Webforms used heavily.

Cool and all, but not that much useful information. Sorry!

Using Drush to list your modules and their statuses: drush sm (for show modules)

On the command line and want to list the modules you have on your site? Fortunately, there's a module-listing command that Agaric's Stefan Freudenberg contributed to Drush.

drush sm

Think "show modules" to remember sm. (The official full name of the command is pm-list which is confusing so just ignore it.)

You can do all your usual fancy command line things:

ben@ubuntu:~/code/agaric/web$ drush sm | grep Views

Agile and Scrum informal session

Agile BoF

Tom McCracken:
Rarely do things just break.

Development

"How do you structure the retainer agreement?"
So many hours per month. So long as we propose good solutions and execute them well,

can-ban - very lightweight agile, that works well for

"Company of only 8 people, i'm the main developer. Does scrum work this small?"

We've struggled to get scrum to work on a $20,000 project [that is small], just not enough cycles.

Hard to get it to scale below $60,000 projects.

Snippets from the first official day of DrupalCon

Michelle L: Why no node body - it prints all values in the body, makes it hard to isolate the real body when theming.

Michelle introduces us to
hook_token_* yay!

hook_token_values

"I always make my own custom breadcrumbs in the theme layer."

Eric G. of Development Seed:

We identified clients with similar interests and needs and started building

it brought a whole new level of [reward, mission] to the team. I don't think we'd be together if we didn't start building managing news three years ago.

Drupal wish: Configuration setting to make all content types default to create new revision

Update: All this is superseded by an existing module, http://drupal.org/project/content_type_overview

Requests for this feature go all the way back to the days of Drupal 4.6, at the least:

create new revision by default
http://drupal.org/node/53149
(4.6 era post!)

This feature remains wanted-- here is the manual instructions, for Stanford.edu!

Drupal for MGH presentation preparation notes

Drupal for MGH

via Lin Clark

  • automatically update one site with the changes made to other sites, as for user profiles

http://lin-clark.com/blog/semantic-web-and-drupal-drupalcamp-vienna
http://lin-clark.com/blog/semantic-web-and-drupal-pt-2

Harvard sites:

Personal site style marketing brainstorm

was node/1379

Individuals

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