Web/Agile Product Management

Web Product Mangement with Pivotal Tracker

8/18/2014

Prepared by David Kim (@findinbay) for PM Fast Track (@pmfasttrack)(daviddarden11@gmail.com)

Goals

● Dig deeper into web product management● Intro understand project management - 7pm● In particular, take pivotal tracker for a test run:

– Paired exercise

– In group

● And then step out, and connect the tool to the craft of product management– Talk by Pivotal, shortly after 8pm

● Agile project management is an iterative and incremental method of managing the design and build activities for engineering, information technology, and new product or service development projects in a highly flexible and interactive manner, for example agile software development.

● http://agilemanifesto.org/

● Metaphor – have you climbed a mountain?– It's incremental, not one giant leap → agile process

Wiki – agile project management

(Meetup team formation)

● 'Experts' – those who've used the tools:– Atlassian Jira/Confluence or Pivotal Tracker

– Trello, Basecamp, Asana, Nama PM, Better, etc.

● Others are 'N00bs'● Pairing – ideally expert & n00b● Sample apps:

– The Odin Project (real project)

– Bridge Troll (real project)

– See others: Pivotal community projects

● How does your team communicate product roadmap? – Is it a list?

– Is it visual?

– Is it verbal?

● How does your team monitor and measure resources?

● Sit next to your pair. Close your eyes. Give each other a hi-five. Now open eyes. Try again.

Group: questions and metaphors

Team exercise – write user stories

● Goals– Discover users with

stories about Code School

– Get them to share stories

● Constraints– Cost effective

– Super quick

– Maintain brand

2x2: Tools – choose your axes

● Recognize that Pivotal Tracker was built by team Pivotal to reflect its approach to building software

– Agile, collaborative, enables extreme programming → velocity feature, for instance

● Same for Basecamp … so,

● As a PM, make sure you understand the problem and the building approach that fits the problem

Building philosophy

● 8/21/14 – How not to suck at project management with John Cwikla

● Subscribe to weekly PM newsletter - http://productmanagementfasttrack.com/blog/

● Check in on ilovecodeschool.com

What's next?

● Super lean

Appendix: Trello

● Lean

Appendix: Basecamp

● Jira

Appendix: Atlassian