How the NFPA Is Bringing Paper Processes Online With Drupal 8

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Firewise USA™'s paper application process existed for 15 years but, in 2016, the Firewise team decided to bring the process online, using Drupal 8 as their platform.

Since moving to Drupal 8, the Wildfire Division of the National Fire Protection Association has streamlined their processes - enabling them to more efficiently deliver on their program’s goal: teaching individuals how to adapt to living with wildfires and take community action to prevent loss of property.

Join Aron Anderson, Associate Project Manager in the Wildfire Division of the NFPA, and Nick Switzer, Development Director at Elevated Third, to discuss the challenges and rewards of bringing a paper process online as a Drupal 8 web app.

Topics we’ll cover include:

• Why Drupal 8 is the right platform for building complex web apps that need to scale.
• Leveraging an agile philosophy to respond quickly to change, collaborate across disciplines and stakeholder groups and get to a working product in as little amount of time as possible.
• Balancing effective deliverables with shared understanding to produce working software that meets the organization’s needs.
• Organizational hurdles to overcome when adding structure and bringing an established paper application process online.

Attendees will leave this session with an understanding of why Drupal 8 is a good fit for a complex web app, examples of processes used to execute a Drupal 8 project on time and on budget and some real-life lessons learned through launching and continually updating a project with thousands of active users.