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Project Updates
Summer 2023
Launched:
Spring 2023
Launched:
College of Humanities & Fine Arts
College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Winter 2022/2023:
Launched:
Elaine Marieb College of Nursing
Microsoft Teams Support for partners with launched sites established.
Fall 2022
Launched:
School of Public Health & Health Sciences
Summer 2022
Working in parallel tracks to meet our timeline. Onboarding ecosystem stakeholders via Introductory meetings, content analysis, technical/process discussions.
Launched:
UMass Amherst Henry M. Thomas III Center at Springfield
Strategy:
Strategy for Forms, Document sharing, and PDF accessibility mitigation developed.
Design:
Majority of Page and component designs are completed and approved.
Presentation of page and component designs
- Homepage/Landing Pages
- Person
- Listing (Academics, News, Events, People)
- Program Area
- Degree Program
- Research (Landing, Area, Project)
- Organization
- News
- Story
- Basic Page
Content Entry
- First batch of development sites deploy for content entry.
- Content Guides and Page Tables developed to support site editors with content types.
- Content pruning recommendations and worksheets are being provided to ecosystem stakeholders. Meetings are being scheduled to work with clients.
- Review of Content Wireframes underway (academic and object types based on Minimum Viable Product)
- All campus communicators and leaders for sites have been notified regarding their position in the Ecosystem timeline; Meetings being scheduled for initial content discussions.
- Acquia Site Factory engagement underway and in collaboration with Ecosystem team members from Information Technology and Marcom.
Spring 2022
Development of MVP
- Project is advancing from discovery (interviews, auditing, feature design) stage to coding and building.
- First group of sites slated for deployment to the Ecosystem have been approved and notified.
- Minimum Viable Product software features and scope being finalized.
Content Strategy
- First group of site stakeholders have met with Marcom to discuss content priorities.
- Content pruning underway following a standardized format of tasks and evaluations.
- Detailed site summaries are being provided by Lullabot to go along with additional internal analytical reports and research.
- Marcom scheduling meetings with each stakeholder group to discuss content priorities.
- Introduce web writing best practices.
- Automate analytics report delivery.
- Audit content with analytics reports
- Develop user journeys and personas to assist in developing content.
Technical Infrastructure and configuration
- Repositories, ticketing, testing
- Deployment automations (Bitbucket Pipelines to Acquia Sitefactory)
- Local development kit (DDEV)
- Caching, monitoring, logging, routing (Researching some options for log aggregation)
- Analytics and KPI's (Planning)
- Class data import from Spire (Development)
- Forms strategy (RFI/Newsletters/Office/Bookings)
- Governance (Planning/Developing)
- Documentation and Training (Planning)
- SSO (Starting to test/implement)
What's next?
- Degree and program content types will be reviewed closely in relation to integrating dynamic data from SPIRE
- Governance documentation will be taking shape based off the findings and recommendations from discovery to the low-fidelity wireframes of to-be landing pages and content types.
- Content strategy engagements underway with site stakeholders and communicators.
- Wireframes for academic content types are being evaluated and tested to match with key features.