Business and Strategy

Consensus building is a conflict-resolution process used to settle disputes. On a Drupal project, I prefer a less adversarial approach. I want to get buy-in for mutual gain. With stakeholders ranging from senior management to team leaders to technical gurus, each having differing visions as to how to proceed on a project, how do we get the best  ideas from everyone and build buy-in across the board?

In this session we'll do a walk-through of the Agile life cycle to get your deliverables out the door quicker and more efficiently. We'll cover tools & techniques for success at each stage of the Agile project as well as a review of real-life challenges and how to overcome them. You'll walk away with a framework for getting started with your own Agile project and tips to keep your Agile team on track.

No one wants to admit it, but working remote is hard. You have to collaborate with people you might never meet over a spotty VPN connection with the added (often self-imposed) pressure of having non-stop productive days. ALL this while chasing the work-life balance unicorn. It's not easy, but it is doable. In this session, you'll learn how to play up your personal strengths to go the distance in a non-traditional work setup. We'll also cover tips and techniques to get the most out of working remote and how to avoid common pitfalls like the "freshman 40". 

Over the past few years, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began its journey to future-proof its content and modernize its website. What began as an effort to create structured content, blossomed into a complete overhaul of HHS.gov to incorporate a mobile-first design and migrate to Drupal in the cloud.

Understanding the reasons why government has taken interest in Drupal is key to understanding how and where it is best used. How do you make sure your architecture is sound, your project plan is tight, and your business strategy is appropriate?

Share our Canadian Federal Government client case study and demo key intranet features deployed by OpenPlus.
Include presentation on next generation Intranet "Digital Workplace" in Government. Review the project consulting experience, Business factors as well as integration leassons learned.

See behind the scenes of the DrupalWxT 7 Intranet Integration for; Health Canada, Canadian Institute for Health Research, National Research Council, Canada Revenue Agency.

Learn how you can use Drupal, Alfresco, and other open source platforms to build online government services that will not blow your budget and timelines.  If you are looking to deliver the following to interal staff or citizens, this is a must see: Permits, Licenses, Complaints, Form Submissions, Registrations, Online Payments, Stores, Information Requests, PDF Forms, Web Forms, commerce related activities, etc.

Very often, digital teams work in two or three strongly-defined silos. There is a content team and a development team, and sometimes there is a design team that works between those two groups. Little conversation happens between those groups, and they often work towards the finish line of a project with an unproductive and unhealthy animosity towards each other, all while playing tug-of-war with the designers that must support both teams.

Some websites are too vast, decentralized, or resource constrained to migrate content in one step.  This session presents practical ideas for managing a program of incremental migrations, one bite at a time.  This session was initially presented in 2014, but is now updated to reflect another 12 months of experience and lessons learned.