Slow but undreamably costly and destructive train wrecks are bad, how do you avoid them? With good project management, that's how! While being a PM isn't as glamorous as being a rockstar developer or as chic as being sales people rolling in their bonuses, being able to talk to different teams and knowing what to look for are important skills software companies need. From scoping out the clients need, to deploying a solution, projects are part and parcel of working in the software industry and this talk will cover one person's hard earned experience to put you a cut above the rest to manage real software projects in the real world.

The presentation will cover the theory of what project management is and what it entails in practice. It will look at mapping out the processes of the project and the processes of the different teams involved, the things to look out for, like dependencies. What dependencies are and how not paying attention to them can make your train crash will be covered. The importance of communication among teams that speak different languages and being that bridge between different worlds will be looked at. The importance of testing will be emphasised, heavily, along with the different types of testing required. Memes, jokes and general humour may or may not be used to convey these points.