Building Beauty on Deadline: Project Management, Development, and Deployment When All Hands are On Deck

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This session is a comprehensive case study of the re-launch of a high-profile site for September 11th. We will provide an informative and thorough (or at least thoroughly entertaining) case study of the highs and lows, highlighting what worked and what was learned from what didn't work. Business and planning practices will be open to inspection as well as code, and we invite interrogation and critique in the closing discussion portion of the session. We will present on:

• Effective use of Redmine project management
• Feature triage
• Dividing up tasks
• Local, Dev, Test, QA, pre-live and live environments
• Bringing in talent at different stages of the process
• Continuing to work with contrib module developers even when there doesn't seem to be time

This is a case study session and the focus will be on how things really work, not an ideal model. This is the only session we are presenting at Drupal's premier event of the season, and we will pull out all the stops to cram it with practical knowledge.