How to Survive an Urgent Project: Fighting the Fire Without Burning Out
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20 min
The talk offers a practical guide for IT professionals who find themselves in a situation of severe emergency. Using the example of implementing credit holidays in a bank, the author walks through a step-by-step strategy: from panic suppression to product launch.
The key method is to give up trying to do everything and focus on the minimally viable product (MVP). The talk explains how to decompose the “elephant” of tasks by separating the critical minimum for the deadline (20%) from secondary functions. It also describes the logic of creating a shock micro-team (analyst, developer, tester) with maximum authority and parallel work. A special emphasis is given to the time compromise: some processes are automated, while others are intentionally handled manually to save time.
The talk not only teaches how to “fight fires,” but also emphasises the importance of a retrospective and the subsequent elimination of technical debt, so that emergency mode does not become the normal way of life.