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Extending Drupal with a CRM ChrisChinchilla A CRM (Contact Relationship Manager or Constituent Relationship Manager depending on your sector) is a fantastic way to take your Drupal installation further and streamline your business practises... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Delivering Drupal: Processes for Success rcross Drupal websites aren’t just a matter of downloading the package from drupal.org, whipping up a database and installing a stack of modules. The actual site build can often be the tip of a much larger... Beginner Business + Strategy
Why Drupal Developers are Different ldpm Drupal attracts many developers who want to help create solutions, not just outcomes. If you are just giving your developers tasks to work on and leaving them alone until they're done, you're not... Beginner Business + Strategy
Hack your team, your department, and your organization for the greater good jmertic Many of us complain about how "pointy hair bosses", ridiculous IT policies, and a culture of complacency make it difficult if not impossible to function successfully as a developer. But how can the... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Break the Mold; Build a Better Team; See Big Results jwalpole, febbraro It's no secret that building a team for your Drupal shop is a big challenge facing our space right now. Finding enough qualified Drupal developers -- and keeping them -- keeps many of us up at night... Beginner Business + Strategy
Bloated eCommerce Platforms Kill Conversion Rates johnkennedy, pcambra Executive Summary Completing Stage 1 of an eCommerce site for a +$40 Billion luxury retailer has taught us valuable lessons about content-driven commerce. Find out how we brought simplicity to the... Beginner Business + Strategy
Healthy Drupal 7 Upgrades: A Case Study of upgrading County HealthRankings.org jennjohnson, setvik Are you considering a major Drupal upgrade? Forum One will present lessons learned from our recent Drupal 6 to Drupal 7 migration of a complex, data-driven website – County Health Rankings... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Panel: Working as a Drupal Dev: Freelance vs Subcontract vs Employment bmx269, gbernier With all of the sessions on a business' perspective of a Drupal Developer, why not get the Developer's point of view as to what is involved in being a Drupal Developer. This session will be a... Beginner Business + Strategy
Hiring from wide open talent pools: practical steps for screening and growing new Drupalists kay_v, jesse.d This presentation focuses on practical strategies for identifying and training/transitioning new talent from outside the Drupal community. To keep the discussion concrete, we lay hiring profiles... Advanced Business + Strategy
Drupal Assumptions: Common Assumptions that Kill Projects (and how to handle them) svettes, rcross, DSheffler, DSquaredB Lets not kid ourselves, Drupal projects have some unique aspects to them and its easy to make assumptions that can be devastating to a project if left unchecked. This session will talk through... Beginner Business + Strategy
Lies about the job market: How to apply for jobs in the 21st century cecycorrea Obviously, if you're reading this, you probably already have a job in the tech industry. But how do you get the job you want? Sometimes it seems the odds are stacked against you: there are... Beginner Business + Strategy
The 5 pressure points you need to hit to knock out big competitors JacobSingh Yes grasshopper, you have come far, but learn my Drupal-fu and you never be defeated. Moving from small sites to the enterprise has presented new challenges for people trying to win Drupal... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Using Drupal to transform the way your organization manages its web content Nechumah Getz, Cathleen Tracy This session will provide strategies to engage and empower your content owners while transforming from a centralized to a distributed model. We will present a case study about how we used Drupal at... Beginner Business + Strategy
How Therapy Helped My Client Relationships nicelobster Knowing how to collaborate effectively with clients and co-workers largely accounts for the success of our projects. Yet navigating these waters is not always easy. All of us have encountered sticky... Beginner Business + Strategy
The Four Pillars of Data dianadupuis, StevenWill As Drupal moves beyond "content publishing" and towards "content as data", are you managing data to its full potential? Are you storing content, but should you be proving systems to develop... Beginner Business + Strategy
Mobile Apps Made Easy using Drupal and Kurogo mobirus What if a non-developer Drupal user can easily assemble, publish, and maintain mobile web and native apps without writing a single line of code? And what if this same user could complete production... Beginner Business + Strategy
Off the treadmill: building a common Drupal platform for your organization rickvug Drupal Distributions! We know and love Commons, Open Atrium, Open Publish, COD and other off the shelf projects. But what about your organization’s unique needs and use cases? You want to stop... Beginner Business + Strategy
/* Talking about code */ solipsist When you're just one person, or three, knowing how something is done or why is not that hard. You can rely on comments in code, and when necessary ask the person. But as your organization grows it... Beginner Business + Strategy
Reinventing the Proposal schiavone Nobody likes proposals. Web companies hate them because they make commitments before all the information has been gathered. Customers don't like them because they're short on details and contain a... Beginner Business + Strategy
Drupal is a Framework: Why Everyone Needs to Understand Hooks dianadupuis When people first learn about Drupal, their initiation often focuses on nodes, blocks, Views, and how to create SEO-friendly URLs. These concepts are important, but they often fail to answer the most... Beginner Business + Strategy

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