Why Scrum is the only solution for delivering Large Scale Drupal projects

This session will be based on my real life experience trying to implement Scrum methodology for two of our Large Scale Drupal projects in FFW (I could share two show cases). I will be focussed on what our approach has been, what challenges the team has been acing along the project execution and finally - the lessons learned.

Beside all successful stories related to how flexible, how fancy and friendly the idealistic Scrum is (and beside the fact I am a real Agile fan) we will be also discussing with you some of the most critical topics from a project management perspective. This is why I’ll put an extra focus on how Scrum would work in NOT an ideal world and what are the challenges for implementing it in our Drupal projects:

• Why Scrum is good enough to be applied for a complex Drupal project;
• Defining and understanding well enough the different roles in Scrum;
• “Self-organised team” or how the production / dev team's mindset should be changed;
• Is there an option to deliver a Scrum project with already predefined scope and fixed budget;
• User stories definition, Acceptance criteria, Technical debt, Retrospective meetings: do we really need to take care of these, why and how?
• The most common mistakes understanding Scrum and how to prevent them?
• Tips that will lead us to a successful project delivery using Scrum.

This session is addressed to all people willing to implement Agile and especially Scrum approach for their projects as based on my experience working on Drupal Large Scale (LSD) projects I hope I am going to be able to provide valuable hints and examples for both success and failures (everyone fails from time to time but the important thing is to learn how to stand up).