Geekweek presentation

1. Why me?
● 8+ years of Project Management in
IT
● Certified Scrum Master
● Implemented Agile methodologies
from scratch in 3 projects
● Released 3 Platinum Casual Games
● One of only 5+ female Project
Managers in Ciklum
● Mentor and tutor at several IT
trainings centers teaching young
managers and junior developers
the art of soft skills
● Speaker at 10+ conferences in 2016
● Proud feminist setting new
attitudes for Women in IT

2. That’s Alice!
And she believes IT
is a fairy tale.
Ain’t it so?

3. Which kingdom do you choose?

6. Non clear user stories

7. Non clear user stories
Set intentions - not requirements
Think of pornhub effect
Experiment
Talk to sales team

8. No Product Owner and
No Designer

9. Be the change owner
Demo or die
No Product Owner and
No Designer

10. Risks management

11. Risks management

12. Who changes requirements before demo?

13. Who changes requirements before demo?
Business priorities matter
Pornhub effect again

14. No breaking changes shall pass!

15. No breaking changes shall pass!
Pay attention to release notes and prepare for worse
Get more people involved

16. How to make
people awesome?

17. How to make
people awesome?
Introduce mentors
Hire juniors
Have subteam leaders and
secure broken leg effect
Give enough power to team
leads

19. Thank you and I’m
open for the
questions!
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