NewYork2008:Interactive Agenda Clustering

Clusters:

Remote teams

How do I rescue a failed project?

Software Development:

Embracing Risk:

Accepting the existence of risk and planning to handle things that may go wrong and mitigate their effects

Web Design:

Values:

Cultural politics and prejudice within a team, tech vs. non-tech, age, female, male
How to facilitate education, buy in and shared goals
How can technology align right on organization mission
Balance the client satisfaction with my vendor sense of what is good (a good outcome)
Communication between tech people and program people
How to convince non-profits that project management techniques are worthwhile
How to deal with organization politics and personalities
Managing expectations in-house: how to manage a supervisor who does not have technical knowledge and unrealistic expectations?

Resources:

Tools:

Project management communication, best practices and tools for collaborations
What people are using to manage projects
Basecamp vs. sharepoint vs msproject
What skills/tools are useful for managing multiple projects at once
Wiki based project management, enhance collaboration, efficiency, communication, better documentation
How do people use mind mapping
What tools are people using out there? esp. for virtual teams

Money:

How do I convince a client to pay for testing
Is it ok to charge NGOs market rate for something I've already built?
Website costs, to build, to maintain, non profit rates
How to control client communication and how to budget for it
How to put a price on your time
How do we use technology to generate revenue for the organization?
What part of overall project cost should project management consume?
What percentage of budget should be PM?
How to create a technology budget and grow it
Selling founders on investing in ongoing support for technology
Making the case for long term technology needs of Nonprofits to founders and grant-makers
How do small non-profits decide which projects they should focus on? prioritize

Scope Creep:

Project Teams:

Balancing responsibilities between vendor, pm and org pm
What technical requirements are require to support open source projects
Building a team considering personalities, strengths and work styles
How technical does a PM need to be?
Is there a personality associated with a good PM?
Are in house IT departments dead?
Better? in house or outsource, how to decide
In house tech staff vs. outsourced tech staff
Should there be more IT service providers in the np sector, is that financially viable?
How to form and effective project team
How do we staff projects
How to deal with make it so supervisors
Building project teams team personalities iterative vs. one shot
Gender dynamics in PM
What techniques do you use to keep clients and projects on a timeline
Project evaluation processes
Juggling multiple roles

Discovery process, planning phase:

Incorporating technology to the strategic planning process
How to say no
When it is time to stop planning and jump in
Solutions for setting clear expectations
What goes into the planning phase
I'd like to know more about how to determine benchmarks for planning and testing phases of web re-design projects
Big spec, menu or cowboy coding?
What are good rations between planning, implementation, feedback, management etc.?
How do you know when to stop initial scope and requirements gathering
Balancing planning vs. building something quickly
Lessons from agile project management
Would like to hear more from folks who've managed more iterative projects (vs. lots of planning and requirements then development)

Communications Issues:

Diplomacy, accountability and how to ask hard questions
Communication issues
How should one manage communication with stakeholders
Building a long term technology plan in a crisis situation
How to adequately describe and prepare clients for scope of project
Solutions for mitigating communication issues
Talk about ways to get buy in from those difficult, yet key decision makers in projects
Fad management (ie. we should do one of those blog things)
How to arrive at consensus around businesses objectives and processes among stakeholders on projects
How do you achieve consensus throughout an organization.

Organization Culture:

How do I figure out who's really in charge
How can PM be used as a tool for organizational change
How prioritize technology within an organization
How does one justify PM
Defining project roles in both organizations and vendor, mutual understanding
How to introduce technology for tech reluctant people
Understanding project roles in tech projects
Managing projects with multiple stakeholders
Anyone else working on a project where you feel hindered by legacy code, decisions that were made years ago or developers who are protective of their old ideas?
How to deal with the dynamics of interdepartmental demands
How to encourage all employees to use all features of applications
Long term needs (systems, maintenance) over short term 1 shot projects
What are strategies for dealing with ineffective, unhelpful project participants
How to get all levels of organization to learn about technology
Cultivating a project centric organization
Sheila mackenzie, says"there are many people in the sector who will bang on about changing the world, who will resist any effort to change the process of their own organization"

Uncategorized:

Technology is not magic
Analysing web metrics
How to streamline manage levels of PM, vendor PM, consulting PM, internal lead
How to balance multiple projects
Web content determination, what to keep updated and readily available, what to *archive and what to scrap
Time management

Buy vs. build vs rent:

Selecting software tools for the long term esp. if it is just you or few making the decision
When how often should organizations evaluate and upgrade technology
Cost savings of easier more expensive software vs. cheaper higher learning curve software

Vendors:

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