Georgia GovHub: A case study in platform development and multi-site migration
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Over the last year, Digital Services Georgia has worked with Lullabot and other vendors to design and produce a new Drupal 8 platform for their 85+ state agency and elected official sites.
Starting with content strategy and design, pattern libraries and media management all the way through infrastructure, migration and deployment, there have been numerous challenges to face.
In this presentation, we'll look at some of those key challenges and how we faced them. In addition to the design and development issues described above, we'll talk about things like:
- what kind of planning is necessary for a major multi-site project to succeed
- a repeatable migration process for multiple sites
- how do you go from The Big Idea at the start of your project to successfully launching sites?
- what kinds of team processes make a large-scale Drupal re-platform project succeed?
Learning Objectives
- envision how your Drupal 7 multi-site can be re-platformed with Drupal 8's new administrative and editorial tools
- plan for content audits and business requirements leading to a successful vendor selection process
- prepare for complex, parallel migrations and QA processes for multiple site instances at once
Target Audience
Stakeholders for organizations that manage multi-site platforms, considering Drupal 8 migration.
Anyone planning a replatform to Drupal 8 might benefit, but especially Higher Ed, Government, or those managing site platforms with decentralized authority and management will recognize the problems and requirements we faced in this proejct.
Also, agencies or departments managing multiple site instances that need to manage multiple complex migrations or are looking for ways to plan their upcoming Drupal 8 replatforming will want to attend.
Prerequisites
- working experience of the problems associated with the management of multi-platform sites, including:
- competing requirements between sites on a platform
- adapting platform-wide branding and design systems to diverse sites
- less specifically, running a web site, fielding feature requests from stakeholders, and the desire to migrate content without undue suffering will be sufficient preparation to benefit from this presentation.
Track
Leadership, Management, & Business
Experience Level
Beginner
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