How to structure a tech project in 2025

​This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House. It is primarily for faculty and fellowship candidates to start with, but if you don't meet those criteria and are particularly interested do get in touch!

“Agile is dead. Long live Agile.”

​Development keeps getting faster, and parts of it are getting increasingly commodified. The existing project management and planning methodologies are struggling to keep up.

​How would you structure a project, whether a personal one that you’re working on or one you’re working with a team on, to maximise your chances of success? Is it realistic to build a new feature every day? What does this change about how we do development?

​We will work through an example of vertical slicing, and look at some tool choices for planning.