Time Management Daniel Harshman Don McGraw Travis Eagles-Soukup

Time Management Daniel Harshman Don McGraw Travis Eagles-Soukup

Tom Hart Vice President of Operations Lijit, Inc. Feedback? Questions about Presenter?

Time Management Process Define Activities Sequence Activities Estimate Activity Resources Estimate Activity Durations Develop Schedule Control Schedule

Define Activities Breaking down the WBS to the activity level – Scrums – Non-sequenced Milestones – Waterfall vs. Agile integration

Sequence Activities Methods to draw network diagrams – Helps put the project into scope – Precedence diagramming method Finish to start – Coding before testing Finish to finish Leads and lags – Go to client before design phase – Wait until design completed to implement

Estimate Activity Resources Important that project manager knows the resource availability Resources the biggest challenge going from large company to small start-up Reassigning resources – Moving certain deliverables to the back end

Estimate Activity Durations Three-point estimates (PERT) – Pessimistic – Optimistic – Most likely One-point estimates – People doing work should do the estimates – Communicate and understand why Padding

Develop Schedule Critical paths – Agile and Waterfall integration – Project manager vs. Sales rep 4.5 months to 1 month Project float (slack) – Important to have float time in case of unexpected problems

Develop Schedule Schedule Compression – Fast tracking Moving resources around – Crashing Release software before all bugs are fixed Increasing costs to meet release date What-if Analysis – Monte Carlo Analysis Tom thought it was interesting

Control Schedule Re-estimating – Make sure project is still on track – Missing milestones has no effect on external customer’s product

Integration Planning phase is critical with fast projects – Challenges if don’t have buy in Quality Assurance – Releasing before testing Integration management through project managers vs. sales staff

Communication Written and verbal communication – Sometimes you need to talk to someone over the phone Web conferences are good when possible – Able to read body language – Nonverbal communication E-mails don’t always get the point across – Buddytv.com and complexities

Communication Can’t teach communication – Important to have the right people on your team – Sales staff Different skill sets

Business Social Responsibility Internet Security – Don’t keep personal information about user Pop-up underwear commercial Green office Eco bus pass Incentive to not drive Green blogs

Other Useful Info Regression testing – Get the bugs out How internet advertising works Implementation ASAP – The faster, the quicker the revenue stream MS Project vs. Rally

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