Having moved from Front End development has presented some fantastic learning opportunities for the author on how to bring order from the chaos of beginning a large scale WordPress project. These principles can be appropriated to small business AND to personal and home based projects. The net result is can be reduced stress and anxiety... Here are some of those principles.

1. Project Management Principles to
Improve your Work, Life, and Mental Health
Dee Teal

2. @thewebprincess
humanmade.co.uk
@humanmadeltd

3. @thewebprincess
humanmade.co.uk
@humanmadeltd

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7. ReflectCelebrateIteratePrioritiseVisualiseAnalyse Complete

8. Analyse

9. Project: Website Updates
Analyse
WEBSITE UPDATES
Task Effort
✅ • Backup 0
✅ • Update Core/Themes/Plugins 2
☑ • Add new Products to Inventory 8
☑ • Write Descriptions
☑ • Gather Images
☑ • Prepare and Optimise Images
☑ • Create the Products
☑ • Upload to Website
☑ • Publish Products
☑ • Update Site Header 3
☑ • Add Phone Number to Header 5
☑ • Add New Blog Post 3
☑ • Write Blog article
☑ • Find Feature Image for post

10. Project: Holiday
Analyse
WEBSITE UPDATES
Task Effort
✅ • Research Options 13
✅ • Flights
☑ • Accommodation
☑ • Activities
☑ • Bookings 5
☑ • Flights
☑ • Accommodation
☑ • Activities
☑ • Packing 3
☑ • Buy new Luggage
☑ • Health 5
☑ • Travel Insurance
☑ • Imunisations
☑ • Get Travel Meds

11. Visualise

21. Prioritise
Do what adds value first

22. Iterate

23. by Henrik Kniberg

24. by Henrik Kniberg

25. Complete
Set a definition of Done
Measure your backlog items
against it!

26. • The feature / story has been coded
• It has been tested by the team collaborating with our Product owner (unittest,
reviewed, tested for scalability if needed etc)
• It has been released to our staging environment
• Once released to staging our Product Owner and external testers either put
their thumbs up or down. If they are happy it is "Done" it gets moved to the
Done column and becomes ready to show in the Review

27. Celebrate

28. Reflect
What went well?
What did not go well?
What will we do to improve?

29. “Do what Adds Value First”

30. Buy stock in Post Its

31. Further Reading
• What is Project Management? http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4014-project-management.html
• Agile Project Management for Dummies (cheatsheet) http://www.dummies.com/careers/project-
management/agile-project-management-for-dummies-cheat-sheet/
• Scrum: The art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the time https://www.scruminc.com/new-scrum-the-book/
• Scrum Alliance: https://www.scrumalliance.org
• Getting Started with Kan Ban (pdf) - https://kanbanery.com/ebook/GettingStartedWithKanban.pdf
• Project Management at Stack Exchange - http://pm.stackexchange.com/
• Asana - https://app.asana.com/
• Trello - https://trello.com/

32. Questions

33. @thewebprincess
humanmade.co.uk
@humanmadeltd