Workshop 3: Warp-Speed Project Wrangling
LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.
The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.
Juniper Room
Adele Shakal, Cisco
Bring your wildest projects to this workshop, facilitated by an experienced technical project manager, and let’s wrangle them together!
Some basic project management techniques can quickly allow IT teams to be more efficient and effective. The big question is “What are we trying to do?” and a short list of the most useful follow-up questions can help all involved to better understand and define a project’s scope, time, cost, stakeholders, governance, and communications needs.
This collaborative session will allow participants to speedily apply appropriate and effective management techniques to their own real-world projects.
Adele Shakal, Cisco
After obtaining her BS in Geochemistry from California Institute of Technology, Adele Shakal’s two-decade path in the IT industry has included webmastering, UNIX systems administration, technical project management, and IT emergency operations planning. She currently leads project and knowledge management at Metacloud, now a part of Cisco, which offers private clouds based on OpenStack. She has presented at local LOPSA chapter meetings and technical conferences including USENIX’s LISA, O’Reilly’s Velocity, and CascadiaIT.
author = {Adele Shakal},
title = {Workshop 3: {Warp-Speed} Project Wrangling},
year = {2014},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}
