Spinweb Drupal Development

Project Organization
Project Steering Committee

Client PM

Spinweb PM

Infrastructure Resource

Dev/QA Teams

Stakeholders Organization Reps

Project Managers
Ensure that accountabilities are met
Schedule, Deliverables

Ensure that budget it monitored Submit/Manage change requests in a timely manner Escalate issues to the Steering Committee for resolution

Stakeholder Representatives
Put forward requirements Feedback/Testing Form the core team

Project Major Milestones

1. Planning Phase
Information Architecture
(Define Content Types and Categories)

Design Approval
(Page Templates, Navigation Effects, Style Guide)

2. 3. 5. 6. 7. 8.

Infrastructure Design Site Building (See Next Slide for Detail) Deployment User Training Content Creation/Content Migration Live Public Beta

Key Documents
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Information Design Document Templates Style Guide Infrastructure Specifications Admin/Site Building Manual User Manual

Skillset Requirements
Publishing- HTML & Wordprocessing Infrastructure- Administration on LAMP Site Building- PHP Scripting and Drupal Theming

Training Courses
Publishing- Day Site Maintenance & Admin- 1 Day Site Building- 3 Topics, 3 Days Each Topic (Excludes Theming)

Site Building in Drupal

1. Create the Drupal instance 2. Build Content Types 3. Define User Roles & Permissions for Core Modules 4. Build core theme 5. Define views 6. Build special module requirements 7. Define roles & permissions for special modules 8. Set navigation and redirects 9. Style/fine tune pages 10. Cross Browser Testing

Documents
1. Visual Design/Fonts
Final Images

2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Site Map & Navigation Change Requests Functional List & Target Dates Update Manual Sign Off/Acceptance

Costly Change Requests

Image replacement on templates Misfit content Late theme adjustments