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Project managing Drupal ChrisChinchilla Does the open source and modular nature of Drupal make it easier, harder or just the same to Project Manage? We look at several case studies, pitfalls, tips and tricks. Intermediate Business + Strategy
Project management with Drupal for nonprofit staffers erikao What does it take to get a Drupal site up and running? How do you keep it running while handling the day to day needs of a small nonprofit organization? Once you have your site, what if you want to... Intermediate Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Project Management Tools and Organization akucharski, jsnoles49 As many Drupal development firms continue to evolve and mature, we often run into many management issues involved with the growing pains. One of the biggest of those issues is effective and efficient... Beginner Business + Strategy
Project Management Processes - Get Your Efficiency On MatthewS Learn from my 18 years of Project Management Experience. I've done it all - cowboy, waterfall, extreme, and agile scrum. Learn why... Waterfall doesn't always work Agile has a place, but isn't... Beginner Business + Strategy
Project Management Do's & Don'ts - How to bring a project in on time, on budget daviddeloria, svettes A deep dive into project management practices from both a PMI and business perspective. In this session, we will discuss many of the common pitfalls associated with large and small scale Drupal... Beginner Business + Strategy
PowerUp Drupal Development with OpenShift gshipley@redhat.com Are you a Drupal Developer and want a quick and scalable infrastructure to try out your latest code patches? OpenShift is Red Hat's open source platform as a service that supports Drupal out of the... Intermediate Coding + Development
Powering a Crowd-Sourced Marketplace with Drupal + Commerce OpenSesame Online marketplaces are popular business models - they’re a big, scalable opportunity, but they also present unique challenges. How do you support different buyers and sellers and all of the... Beginner Business + Strategy
Power Themeing: Powerful responsive css without template frameworks jmoughon Are template frameworks the best option? Do you do a lot of custom themeing? Is there something that can significantly help? In the current age of Responsive Web Design (RWD) and multiple browsers... Intermediate Frontend
Plugin into Drupal 8 MiSc In Drupal 8 we are going to have some new things, one of them is plugins, what are they, what do plugins do, what differs them from modules and ctools plugins, and how (not will) are they going to... Intermediate Coding + Development
Platform is Prologue: Fueling Innovation and Mobile on Energy.gov thekellye, srjosh Your platform is built and you don’t have time/budget for a full responsive redesign. Learn how Energy.gov retrofit for mobile using current budget and development cycles without a traditional... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Personalization: Spicing Up the Customer Experience krysgeek It’s time to kick personalization up a notch. Hot sauce won’t do the trick, but the ability to expose, transform, and record data will. Membership organizations integrate Drupal with their... Intermediate Site Building
Performance Tough Love msonnabaum As a performance engineer, I get asked a lot questions about general Drupal performance issues. About 90% of the time they make no sense and I end up having to ask my own questions to figure out what... Intermediate Coding + Development
Performance for Site Builders erikwebb Most "performance" presentations are designed for those developers that straddle the line between coder and sysadmin. In reality many Drupal sites are built completely from the administrative... Intermediate Site Building
Performance analysis with XHProf Kars-T In this Session you will learn about: Profiling with XHPRof Installation Benefits XHProf VS xDebug Automatic usage Profiling small parts of the code Combination with the devel module... Beginner Coding + Development
Patch Review ZenDoodles, YesCT In this session, we'll look at the process of patch review from start to finish, discussing strategies to maximize learning opportunities, touching on why some patches are harder to review than... Intermediate Community
Parlez-vous Drupal? Translating a complex Drupal site into a second language. Kristen Pol, susanmccormick, Aimee Degnan, mrf What happens if your client has a complex Drupal website and decides it needs to handle another language? What if you need to develop and maintain the two sites separately: the old one and the new... Intermediate Site Building
Panels for Themers - Creating Highly Flexible Layouts davidneedham With the power of Panels, you never have to make a .tpl file ever again! Okay, that's not true entirely, but what Panels does give you is the ability you to create Drupal aware layouts that can be... Intermediate Frontend
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
PANEL: State of the (Freelance) Union kbell, stevepurkiss, pirog, Andrew_Mallis, j. ayen green Are you a Drupal freelancer? Do you love the freelancing life (at least most of the time)? You're not alone! This session will share strategies designed to help you love your life ALL the time.... Intermediate Business + Strategy
Pains and Gains of PHP Upgrades lornajane What version of PHP are you running? PHP 5.3? PHP 5.4? PHP 5.2? Most of us lag behind the "new shiny", but at some point you'll face both the pain of the upgrade migration and the joy of the new... Beginner Coding + Development

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