Profitability is never a guaranteed outcome.

Drupal is a powerful CMS that developers use to give clients the web products they need, with all of the features and functionality they want. Drupal can provide all this at a lower cost than HTML or other platforms, but using Drupal is no guarantee of profitable project.

Using Drupal along with an Agile Development Process is an excellent way to eliminate much of the wasted efforts found in a traditional Waterfall Development Process. By comparison, using an Agile Methodology can reduce cost by as much as half, or provide up to twice as much product for the same budget! However, Drupal and Agile alone are not enough to ensure a profitable outcome.

Experienced project management along with a senior-level development team can successfully use Drupal and Agile to start from a position of great strength on any project. Adding proper management techniques to work-flow and production will help move any project toward potential profits, but even the best team cannot overcome fatal flaws in scope, schedule, or budget.

What are the fundamentals needed to keep costs under control during a project? How do you bid projects against a client's budget properly? How do you address scope, schedule, and budget to start off in the best position possible to achieve a win-win outcome for your client and yourself?

This session will discuss how to address these questions and answer them successfully, with specific attention on how those answers may change relative to the size of the dev team or the project. We will address some specifics of the Agile process, of the development process, and how to construct the development team for the best fit to the size of each project. This will include key management fundamentals that have business value far beyond project management alone. Dev-shops large and small will learn to target the right range of projects in order to bring home profits and grow their business.