DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014: Delivering Excellence with Drupal for Fortune 500 Companies

Speakers: simanjan
I would like to tell you how we grow Drupal expertise and develop Drupal projects for Fortune 500 companies here at EPAM Systems. EPAM is a global information technology services provider focused on software product development services, software engineering, and vertically-oriented custom development solutions. EPAM is the leading software engineering company in Central and Eastern Europe employing nearly 10,000 engineers. Such companies as UBS, Coca-Cola, DirecTV, Viacom, Thomson Reuters, IHG, Expedia are among our clients.

Recently, the attitude to open-source solutions in the enterprise world has changed and more and more clients choose such platforms as Drupal for building their high traffic and scalable web solutions. With over 20 years of experience in developing products and comprehensive solutions we can confidently fall back on our best practices in implementing Drupal powered solutions.

In my session, I would like to tell you about:

Clients
What Fortune 500 clients need
How is a Fortune 500 company different from an SMB (small and medium business) clients
How to build client trust
People
How we prepare a team of +20-30 Drupal developers in a year
How to get together the right team (20 people or more) of back-end and front-end developers, business analysts, and testers (performance, functional, and automation)
Motivation of a large team in a long-term project
Processes
How 20+ people in 5+ roles over 3+ locations work together
How you can make sure the quality of your decisions
What to do if you are working on 5 projects for the same client
What to do if there are several competing vendors working on the project
How to secure and share knowledge between projects of the same customer