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+title: How Microserve Used Story Point Estimation to Improve Profitability and Successfully Hit Project Deadlines
+slot: 7
+speakers: [Rick Donohoe]
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+As the Head of Operations at Microserve, a key focus in my role is to improve agency profitability and project success.
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+In this talk I’ll dive into how we adopted “Story Point” estimation to achieve this, and show you how you can implement a better estimation process to see similar benefits.
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+The talk will go over:
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+- A slight bit of background to how this came about at Microserve
+- Explanation of Man Hours vs Story Points, and gauging how the audience understands and uses those already
+- Why Man Hours doesn’t work!
+- A walk through of how we use Story Points and how they can be used to determine what the teams ‘Sprint Velocity’ is, which can then be used to create actual monetary estimates based on science.
+- How we create Baseline Estimates at the start of the project when we have nothing to base it on
+- How we can use this technique to put better estimates to a whole large project
+- What to avoid for those who already have some understanding of the technique
+- Questions!

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+title: Drupal out of the box! The Umami Demo update.
+slot: 4
+speakers: [Keith Jay]
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+The Umami Demo is now one of the installation options available to anyone taking Drupal for a test drive. The demo is a great example of the Drupal community working together to improve the user experience for those wanting to discover more about Drupal core’s capabilities and features. Join one of the initiative leads Keith Jay (kjay) to learn about the demo, our recent successes and some of our plans for the future.
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+This talk will cover:
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+- A little background on the initiative
+- A demo of the demo
+- Key features and challenges
+- New features for Drupal 8.7
+- Future plans