william makower, ceo, panlogic ltd; robert hill , web services manager, oxfordshire county council,...
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Delivering an Agile project using
Government Digital Service’s
“Service Manual”
GDS ‘Service Manual’ best practise
Discovery Alpha Beta Live
Agile – the key advantages
Continual reduction of uncertainty.
Agile – the key advantages
More control over the project management quality triangle.
Digitising services for the
Royal National Institute of Blind People
Digitising services for the
Royal National Institute of Blind People
Drupal as a favoured open-source
content management system
What Drupal has to offer
• Flexibility
• Cost
• Community-driven
Some of Drupal’s challenges
• Beware poorly planned websites
• Dependence on technical community and
absence of contractual obligations
• The recruitment market for development
resource
Mobile engagement and
development of adaptive content
Mobile engagement
Mobile engagement
Mobile as standard:
“We’re spending two hours online on our smartphones every day; twice
as long as laptops and PCs”
Ofcom, Aug 2015
Mobile engagement
And an opportunity:
Accessibility and mobile
46% of local council sites passed mobile accessibility tests compared
to a pass rate of between 65% and 71% for desktop access.
What’s Was Wrong With TheOld System?
Proprietary Web Content Management:
• Not cheap
• Rare skillset
• Opaque data format
• Hard to extend
Why Drupal?
• Free and open source
• Common skillset (LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
• Transparent data format
• Easily extensible (10,000+ contributed modules)
But Why Drupal?
• 8% of the top 10,000 Web sites(second after Wordpress)*
• Major examples include whitehouse.gov, economist.com
• Community of nearly 22,000 developers
• Support providers
What’s Wrong With Drupal?
• Too many ways to do things
– so: plan on spending time doing research and testing – get advice!
• Unoptimised database queries
– so: need a mature caching strategy – get more advice!
What Does It Do?
• Core functionality
– editing by small team
– flexible content schema
– simple navigation, taxonomies
– comments, blogs, forums, and polls
– search
Key Modules
• Views: flexible data presentation
• Panels: advanced layout
• Workbench: enterprise-oriented editing workflow
• Web forms
• Content rating
• Apache Solr search engine
