Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
PHPCon Poland : 10 warning signs in IT projects
Search
Yann Larrivée
September 30, 2016
Technology
1
100
PHPCon Poland : 10 warning signs in IT projects
Yann Larrivée
September 30, 2016
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Yann Larrivée
See All by Yann Larrivée
The hidden secrets of project rescue
ylarrivee
0
360
ConFoo Vancouver - 10 warning signs in IT projects.
ylarrivee
0
70
Vagrant Up: your environment
ylarrivee
0
200
Vagrant Up: your environment
ylarrivee
0
320
10 warning signs in IT projects
ylarrivee
0
250
confoo-2015-beyond-agility.pdf
ylarrivee
0
570
NZ-PHP :10 Warning signs in IT projects
ylarrivee
1
140
10 warning signs in IT projects
ylarrivee
0
200
Montreal.rb: 10 warning signs in IT projects
ylarrivee
0
76
Other Decks in Technology
See All in Technology
AI時代だからこそ考える、僕らが本当につくりたいスクラムチーム / A Scrum Team we really want to create in this AI era
takaking22
6
3.5k
研究開発部メンバーの働き⽅ / Sansan R&D Profile
sansan33
PRO
3
20k
多様な事業ドメインのクリエイターへ 価値を届けるための営みについて
massyuu
1
300
GopherCon Tour 概略
logica0419
2
190
Large Vision Language Modelを用いた 文書画像データ化作業自動化の検証、運用 / shibuya_AI
sansan_randd
0
110
E2Eテスト設計_自動化のリアル___Playwrightでの実践とMCPの試み__AIによるテスト観点作成_.pdf
findy_eventslides
1
380
Trust as Infrastructure
bcantrill
0
340
M5製品で作るポン置きセルラー対応カメラ
sayacom
0
150
Goに育てられ開発者向けセキュリティ事業を立ち上げた僕が今向き合う、AI × セキュリティの最前線 / Go Conference 2025
flatt_security
0
350
Findy Team+のSOC2取得までの道のり
rvirus0817
0
350
成長自己責任時代のあるきかた/How to navigate the era of personal responsibility for growth
kwappa
3
280
ZOZOのAI活用実践〜社内基盤からサービス応用まで〜
zozotech
PRO
0
180
Featured
See All Featured
The Myth of the Modular Monolith - Day 2 Keynote - Rails World 2024
eileencodes
26
3.1k
Templates, Plugins, & Blocks: Oh My! Creating the theme that thinks of everything
marktimemedia
31
2.5k
Context Engineering - Making Every Token Count
addyosmani
5
190
Fashionably flexible responsive web design (full day workshop)
malarkey
407
66k
Build your cross-platform service in a week with App Engine
jlugia
232
18k
RailsConf & Balkan Ruby 2019: The Past, Present, and Future of Rails at GitHub
eileencodes
140
34k
Improving Core Web Vitals using Speculation Rules API
sergeychernyshev
19
1.2k
Intergalactic Javascript Robots from Outer Space
tanoku
273
27k
Code Review Best Practice
trishagee
72
19k
A better future with KSS
kneath
239
17k
Put a Button on it: Removing Barriers to Going Fast.
kastner
60
4k
What's in a price? How to price your products and services
michaelherold
246
12k
Transcript
foolab.ca | @foolabca 10 warning signs in IT projects. PHPCon
Poland – October 1st, 2016
2 Some statistics • 70% of IT projects fail •
66% of projects go over budget • 33% go over schedule • 17 % under deliver value
3 Yann Larrivée • Consultant at FooLab • Project rescue
& bring projects to success • Twitter: @ylarrivee • Email :
[email protected]
4 Presentation objectives • Identify project threats early • Reduce
the number of failures • Reduce stress, anxiety, headaches • More time with your family
5 Vocabulary • Objectives • Metrics • Success • Failure
6 Objectives - Signs • Stakeholders don't agree on business
objectives • Goals are not communicated • Goals are not understood • Poorly defined goals
7 Objectives - Solutions Ask these questions: • What are
we trying to accomplish? • Why are we doing this? • What are we trying to improve?
8 Objectives - Solutions • Get stakeholders to agree and
sign a contract • Kickoff meeting to explain the goals • Print the goals on a poster hang them in your office • Communicate them to all team members
9 Deadline - Signs • Deadline too tight • Trying
to make a project fit • Working overtime • Deadline is too far
10 Deadline - Solutions • Use simple solutions & technologies
you master • Negotiate the delivery date • Plan time for the unexpected • Prioritize features based on objectives • Negotiate deliverables based on objectives
11 Progress - Signs • No demo within the first
month • Missed demos • You don't even have demos
12 Progress - Solutions • Weekly release and demo •
Request developers to give development URL • Follow the GIT commits • Yellow-flag task at 50% of completion time • Red-flag task at 75% of completion
13 Team Spirit - Signs • Pointing fingers • Poor
or no collaboration • Negative attitude
14 Team Spirit - Solutions • Break negative conversations •
Change the focus to solutions • Meet team members with negative attitude • Remove bad team members • Get to know your team members
15 Communication – Signs • No one ever reports problem
• People provide excuses for the road blocks • People forward you to the documentation • Languages • Timezones
16 Communication – Solutions • Find the root cause •
Have someone bilingual • Re adjust your schedule • Talk one on one to get the real information • Pick up the phone!
17 Focus – Signs • Methodologies & Architecture • Tools
and framework • Adding cool features • Gold platting • Last minute changes
18 Focus – Solutions • Plan time for R&D outside
of your project • Focus Delivering value, not feature • How does it bring us closer to the objective?
19 Documentation – Signs • 50 pages+ novel style documentation
• No documentation • Poor technical and functional analysis
20 Documentation – Solutions • Plan time for analysis •
Centralize all documentation in source control • Keep it straight to the point • Write readable code
21 Quality – Signs • The ghosts problem • Endless
bugs list • No time for quality assurance • No time for performance testing
22 Quality – Solutions • Have staging and product ready
env. • Determine mission critical components • Write test for mission critical components • How many users at peak hours • Have QA before each demo
23 Metrics - Signs • No way to measure the
expected outcome
24 Metrics – Solutions • Level of business success •
Level of quality • Level of performance
25 Presentation take-away • A project fails one day at
a time • How does it bring us closer to the objective? • Plan for the unexpected • Don't underestimate the power of beer.
26 Questions? Twitter: @ylarrivee E-mail:
[email protected]
Website: foolab.ca You see
many of these warning signs in your project? Get advice from an unbiased external source.