We created Reload because we wanted to create the best place to work for people like ourselves. Developers, that is. – Rasmus Luckow-Nielsen, CEO, Reload
• We are a technically based consultancy, and we think we have the most skilled Drupal developers in Denmark. • We do not outsource, as we focus on close- knit on-location collaboration with our customers . • We have a lot of pride in our work and our ways. And we're more idealistic than most companies. We value and incorporate open source contributions a great deal. Reload summarized
Drupal is our weapon of choice And we're pretty damn good at it. Combined we have more than 50 years of experience in the Drupal space, and we maintain more than 100 contributed modules on drupal.org
Danish Broadcast Corporation Top 3 site in Denmark - more than 2,2 mio. monthly unique users (500k daily), 30+ million visits and 100+ million pageviews each month. We have been working on their transition to Drupal since 2012, and we have spend 12.000+ hours on it.
Not to mention TV2, Unicef, Medical sans Frontiers, Royal Danish Theatre, Danish Scout Organization and many others… Okay, we mentioned them anyway. Because they are awesome!
• A good project is one we do not know how to solve when we begin • A good project gives us new experience and makes us more knowledgable • A good project allow us to get in early and ask a lot of questions - making us able to identify the real business needs before we start implementing If your reality is simple, you probably don't need Reload Reloads typical project space
Start with why We do use Impact Mapping as a tool to idenfity Why, Who, How and What. Then we use agile methodologies to deliver the right things to our customers.
• Feedback loop, communication and clear roles of responsibility • Gives transparency for everyone Overskrift i en linie • It makes great sense to be agile when working in complex areas • Forces us to continuously set matching of expectations Why do we work with agile methodologies? Great video - watch it!
Plan Plan Plan Plan Plan "JUST-IN-TIME" PLANNING Plan Analysis Test Code Design Release Traditionel (predictive): Plan everything upfront Scrum (empirical): Plan a little before the project and a little before each sprint Analysis Design Code Test Release Analysis Design Code Test Release Analysis Design Code Test Release Analysis Design Code Test Release What if the project stops here? Plan Plan Plan Plan Plan
• Focus on business value • Do stuff that can be tested and validated as fast as possible • Prototyping! • Incremental improvements instead of "solve everything in one go" We focus on business value, time- to-market and Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
• The customer (the Product Owner) have the power to make decisions and will sit on-location with the team 1-2 days a week • We usually do 2 week sprints, repeating backlog grooming, sprint-planning, - demo og -retrospectives and daily scrums • Great tools - vi love Jira Agile, and our customers use this too. • Sprint reporting to continuously set expectations Agile projects in Reload
No matter how great we think a project is, it will be considered a failure by the customer if we don't meet their expectations. – Rasmus Luckow-Nielsen, CEO, Reload
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