Click here to watch Oh look, we're growing! (A PM Approach to Scaling Teams, People, Process, and Tools)

This PM-focused session embraces the experience of successfully growing a development shop rooted in Drupal from 10 people to 35 people and $50K project budgets to $500K budgets over the past two years.

The format will address growth challenges and opportunities for project management teams from the perspective of the people and teams doing the project work, the processes involved to get things done, and the tools used to support those processes. It will also identify some important ways that great project management and risk management can go hand in hand with organizational growth when it comes to maintaining a healthy, well-oiled company during times of rapid change.

We'll cover topics that can help you avoid major pitfalls in growth, including:

• How to guide your team members towards wearing slightly fewer hats and exploring their biggest strengths more deeply
• How to adapt process methodology to growing project sizes and where the true roles of Agile and Waterfall lie
• When spreadsheets are a better option than tools and how to anticipate when your spreadsheets will become unmanageable
• How to convince your planning-crazed and risk-averse side to be okay with process decay, outdated documentation, tools breaking, and other growing pains

Growing an organization is both fun and scary! Well-founded, adaptable project management practices can help make sure your organization's growth risks are minimized, projects are healthy, and clients are happy. Expect to come away from this session with some good tips and tricks, plus plenty of questions to take back to your organization and your project management team.