The roles of the Product Owner, Business Analyst and/or Subject Matter Expert are crucial to the success of an AEM project, especially at critical times. From the development team’s perspective leveraging these resources during kickoff can set the project up for success. Hear more about the right resourcing and preparation for kickoff can enable development teams to start a project off right and to avoid costly changes (scope increase or rework) later in the project.
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● About Us
● Project Success
○ Qualities of a Successful Project
● Project Phases
○ Standard Phases for Projects
● Kickoff
○ Prerequisites
○ Purpose
○ Resources
○ Agenda
● What We Learned
● Questions, Comments or Feedback
AGENDA
WHAT WE HAVE PLANNED FOR YOU
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● Client and Partner Teams Identified
○ Know who you’re working with
● Statement of Work (SOW)
○ Signed and countersigned
● Designs & Assets
○ Delivery process
● Access
○ Environment
○ VPN
○ Code Repository
KICKOFF PREREQUISITES
PREPARING THE TEAM PROPERLY
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Introducing the Teams
● Initial kickoff meetings will lay the foundation for team members to build a relationship
throughout the project.
Establishing Project Goals
● When setting project goals it's important that both the client and partner teams have a
shared understanding of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s)
Defining Project Scope
● Determining project scope is a group effort that requires collaboration from all team
members as well as a clear understanding on responsibilities to complete tasks.
● Similar to goals BUT involves defining features rather than overall goals.
KICKOFF PURPOSE
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT TO DISCUSS IN KICKOFF MEETINGS
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Understanding Project Mechanics
● Scheduling & Planning
○ Team member meetings
○ Agile methodology
● Communication Plan
○ Day-to-day
○ Weekly
● Responsibilities
○ RACI Matrix
KICKOFF PURPOSE CONTINUED...
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT TO DISCUSS IN KICKOFF MEETINGS
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Having the “Right” People in the Room
● Accuracy of Information
○ Existing business processes and expected future state
● Approval of Requirements
○ Technical
○ Functional
● Project Schedule
○ Identifying key milestones
● Project Dependencies
○ Importance of client, third-party and partner deliverables
KICKOFF RESOURCES
PARTICIPATION IN PROJECT KICKOFFS
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KICKOFF AGENDA
WHAT WE WILL DISCUSS IN THE PROJECT KICKOFF
DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4
● Understanding client
objectives
● Site walkthrough
● Discuss project
methodology
● Project logistics and
scheduling
● Release management
● Information
architecture
● Migration plan
● Technical
architecture
● QA plan
● Team integration
● SEO
● AEM users and
groups
● Workflow
● Analytics
● Integration
● Environments
setup
● Collaboration
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RESOURCES
Roles: Who is doing what?
Teamwork: How are we going to work
together?
PROJECT
REQUIREMENTS AND
DEPENDENCIESProject: Why are we doing this?
Scope: What are we doing?
ALIGNING ON NEXT STEPS
Approach: How are we going to make this
happen?
Next: How do we keep the momentum?
WHAT WE LEARNED