SO, WHAT HAS DREW BEEN DOING?

PDP - GOALS

• Increase responsibilities of senior team members
• Raise web dev profile internally and externally
• Improve web dev sales quote process
• Improve web dev internal reputation

PDP - OBJECTIVES

• Streamline website and creative dev processes
• Define front end development improvement roadmap & begin
• Team presentations, talks, code reviews, presentation skills
• Improve team cohesiveness
• Improve sales quoting process

PDP - OBJECTIVES

• Improve development testing processes

RESULTS

• Gave two talks to client services
• Team planned talks with client services
• Talks to team by other team members
• Talk with Griff to Leeds Met students
• Increased awareness, knowledge sharing

TEAM GROWTH - GRIFF

• Junior developer responsibility
• Front end development roadmap
• Code reviews
• Build automation
• Talks

TEAM GROWTH - RYAN

• Build automation responsiblity
• Front end development roadmap
• Increased quoting responsibility
• Talks
• Source control, lead developer

TEAM GROWTH - CHRIS

• Design liaison responsibilities
• Working with Tony to define design dev requirements
• Ideas to improve creative process

TESTING

• New tools
• New processes
• Team on board
• Better output
• Better reputation

BETTER SALES QUOTE PROCESS

• Review, improved, agreed, streamlined
• Clear lines of responsibility and actions
• Defined document for future refernece
• Reduction of truck factor

FRONT END DEV ROADMAP

• More responsibility for Griff, Chris and Ryan
• Small actionable steps
• Improved dev process, time saved, higher quality output
• Better

WHAT ELSE?

FINANCIAL TARGETS

• Reached in October - 3 months early
• Highest month £65k
• Creative proportion?
• Budgeting / cost forecasting

ROLE DEVELOPMENT

• Increased high level involvement
• Increased delegation to key team members
• Planned motivation for team members
• Managing situations
• Leading

AND?

• Agile methods introductions
• Burn down charts
• Agile estimates combined with Kanban boards
• Designer source control
• Expertsy