Herding cats: project management in communities

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Fedora program management at Red Hat turns release goals into calendar dates, tracks change proposals through blocker and prioritized-bug reviews, and coordinates resources across volunteers using a mix of meetings and reports. Work includes running blocker-bug go/no-go meetings, publishing a weekly status blog that lists change statuses, holding IRC office hours for ad hoc questions, and pushing for public Kanban boards so contributors can discover schedules and responsibilities; leadership relies on influence not formal authority.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:33Housekeeping
3. 0:53Project
4. 1:59Iron Triangle
5. 2:41Project management
6. 3:20Managing schedules
7. 4:36Tradeoff
8. 5:01Release
9. 5:55Cost
10. 7:40Technical changes
11. 8:53Quality
12. 11:26Communicate
13. 11:54Meetings
14. 15:35Project management in communities
15. 16:18Processing bureaucracy
16. 19:31Guiding principle
17. 20:20Questions

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