Project Management

Juan Pablo Buriticá, Head of Engineering, LatAm, Stripe

In this slide deck, Juan Pablo provides an intro to project management using a cooking analogy.

Marco Dell'Olio, Full Stack Software Engineer, Calendly

Marco uses the experience of an actual project at SalesLoft to explain 7 components of project management: 1. Prioritization and sponsorship 2. Correct use of the Feature Development Plan 3. Pre-Planning Spreadsheet and Parallelization 4. Story sizing and avoiding feature branches 5. Local environment up to date 6. Communication first 7. Team continuity

Tom Randle, Product Manager, Geckoboard

In addition to the actual tooling decisions, Tom explains the project management problems that drove the tooling change, which included: • Needing a way to show how cards related to each other • Needing to see how cards contributed to overall goals and progress

Gergely Orosz, Engineering Manager, Uber

Gergely covers: • Project management approaches across the industry. An overview of a survey with over 100 companies represented, plus key takeaways. • Project management at Big Tech. How are these done? How does the organizational setup of Big Tech influence how projects are executed? • The lack of Scrum at Big Tech. Why is the popular framework missing from most of Big Tech, and are there takeaways for companies operating outside this model? • How should you run projects in your team? I’ll share my personal take.