A few days ago Drupalcamp Austin posted the video from my talk. I see things I like in my presentation. I see things that I can improve.

That all said, I think the message is pretty good. You get a little history lesson on Project Management. I focus on Cowboy, Waterfall, and Agile. I talk about communication and expectations. The presentation then discusses, with quite a bit of detail, how our development process has evolved and where we are at this point in time. I'm really proud of the work we've done at Examiner.com - and I'm so very impressed by our team. Everybody has been involved in moving this football.

There are cats, manholes, fighter jets, pyramids, castles, waterfalls, ravens, monsters, wine, books, and just a little H.P. Lovecraft.

Thank you to Examiner.com and to Drupalcamp Austin for facilitating my sharing. You all rock. If you're interested in seeing my remarks - here they are.

We all have pet peeves. We have our "favourite" client or clients that have done things that baffle us. We've all had employers that have been problems or employees that just weren't right. We have funny stories, sad stories, maddening stories about how a project has gone spectacularly wrong. We've had situations that have seemed like they were going to be a complete disaster but then have turned around. We've had disagreements with our colleagues and/or competitors.

At Drupalcamp Austin, I'll be talking about process. I'll speak a bit about tools and strategies. I might share a few scenarios that could make your hair stand straight up. I'll be talking about lessons I've learned across many years of managing projects in Drupal and in my life as a custom software architect and project/product manager.

So, here are 10 things that drive me nuts:

Tom McCracken did a session on SEO optimization focusing on a few tools at Drupalcamp Austin. These are my notes from his session - please excuse the brevity, I was typing fast.

I am including the video that I took from the session - unfortunately, the first two sections of the video were corrupted somehow. Even though it is an incomplete set of videos, I figured it was worth it to include them anyway.

Three ways to drive traffic

1) Machine
2) Human
3) Social Network

Be an excellent referrer for Google
Have great content

SEO checklist module - will give you a sense of what you have or don't

-- The organization in Web 1.0 - highly sculpted
-- The staff - Web 2.0 - users drive content
-- Users submitting questions
-- When you are writing an article, you should do keyword research to optimize around certain keywords.

Integrating Drupal into the Enterprise Architecture

Kieran Lal from Acquia led a session on making the enterprise argument for Drupal. These are my notes and videos from the session. Please forgive brevity on the posts and feel free to follow my notes with the videos below. I think, in conjunction, they should make sense.

He started by talking about the Whitehouse.gov success story when it transitioned to Drupal after President Obama's campaign site had been built in it.

-- There was a strategy session at the White house with Kieren and Dries
-- Recovery.gov started in Drupal but eventually lost to Sharepoint - all government contracts come up for open bid on each contract cycle
-- Currently 58 federal sites are in Drupal and there are about 500 in the pipeline right now

Getting Early Estimates Right

These are my notes and videos from the session. Please pardon the brevity. I hope the videos of are of interest and that the notes give a sense of what Jakob discussed. You probably ought to watch the videos while following the notes - hopefully it will make sense.

Jakob Persson of NodeOne the, biggest Drupal owned company in Europe did a presentation on early estimating to capture clients.

NodeOne engages in:
-pilots
-design
-development
-hosting and scalability
-training
-consulting