Drupal Project

Life cycle

Mike King

@emkay

http://emkay.io/presenting

Waterfall, Scrum or Something Else?

• Unless forced, be as agile as possible
  
  
• Mode of transport isn't that important,
  it's getting there that counts
  
  
• Learn from your mistakes and build your
  ideal process
  

Overview

• Plan > Do > Review
  
  
• Work in small cycles
  
  
• Rinse and repeat as often as required.
  More cycles are almost always better.
  
  
• Meetings mark start and finish of cycles
  

Plan > Do > Review

• Development > QA > UAT > Done
  
  
• Complete items of work in order
  
  
• Checklists save the day
  
  
• Zero defects at every stage!
  
  

Plan > Do > Review

• Have another conversation
  
  
• Involve all the team
  
  
• What did we do?
  
  
• How could we do it better?
  
  
• Lead straight into the next cycle
  

What did we learn?

• Conversations are essential
  
  
• Requirements are personal
  
  
• Use examples to clarify and discover edge-cases
  
  
• Smaller cycles encourage more feedback
  
  
• Waste is our enemy
  

Questions