Class 15 Project Management
##Class 15: Project Management
- Product Specs
- Agile Project Management
- Scrum
- Project Management Tools
###Class Slides
###Homework
- Put together a Product Spec and Functional Spec for your product
- Your product spec should be a written overview (paper or slides) that covers the goals, metrics, assumptions, risks, and features.
- Your functional specs should be the collection of user stories, acceptance criteria, and wireframes/mocks.
###Reading
- The Agile Manifesto
- Scrum Is A Major Management Discovery - Forbes article about business gains of scrum teams.
- The Agile Samurai: How Agile Masters Deliver Great Software (Pragmatic Programmers -- Great book on getting started with Agile
###Tools
- JIRA - Commonly used tool for work flow management, bug tracking, etc.
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Trello - Very simple tool for Agile/Scrum (freemium!)
- Uber Example - Here's an example I put together using the user stories from Uber.
- Pivotal Tracker - This was the internal tool that Pivotal used to manage their own projects, and eventually turned it into a standalone product.
- Basecamp - Another project management tool made by 37Signals, integrates with other tools for development and collaboration.
- Asana - Developed by Dustin Moskovitz (co-founder for Facebook), based on how they used to manage projects.
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