Managing an Agile Drupal Project for DLR
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is the local authority for Dun Laoghaire Rathdown county, delivering high quality services and infrastructure for its population including local parks, sports and leisure services, housing, libraries, arts and cultural activities, planning, economic development, local tourism, environment and waste management.
Making a strategic decision to move away from the large number of disparate web platforms that had been developed by both the internal team and a mix of external providers, the dlr IT team selected Drupal as their platform on which to build the next generation of DLR websites and internal intranet platform. The goal was set to build a user-centred and easily managed, responsive, public service website to better showcase and promote the wide range of services and activities offered to DLR residents, visitors and businesses, and to establish a SSO framework and architecture for future distributed content publishing.
The session will be presented by Kevin Gough, Scrum Master and Support Manager at Monsoon Consulting - one of the leading Drupal Agencies in Dublin, and Brian McSweeney, Product Owner for the dlrcoco.ie Drupal platform. They will discuss agile methodology and project management insights from the recent build of dlrcoco.ie website.
- Is Drupal fit for Agile development
- Drupal Agile development with a distributed team: The magic of the visibility board
- Sprint Planning with planning poker
- Managing change and constantly grooming the backlog
- Slicing & velocity for project estimation
The session is addressed to:
- Government bodies that are looking to adopt Drupal as their core online platform
- Agencies looking to understand best practices in implementing Enterprise level Drupal websites
- Drupal developers working with Agile development methodology
About the presenters
Kevin Gough is Scrum Master at Monsoon Consulting, planing, managing and executing our website, application and ecommerce projects and is dedicated to help our clients achieve their online goals. Kevin also manages the client support, ensuring on-going support and maintenance requests are handled effectively and in a timely manner.