Workshop, workshop, workshop...

It's been a manic few weeks with a huge number of Analysis workshops both with Squiz and Internally but we're making some really interesting conclusions around the user journey within our site and also the availability of content for visitors. We've had workshops to cover LDAP, content migration, design, user journeys, wireframes and taxonomies!

The conclusion is that we're looking at rolling out a shiny new website with some very clever functionality that reflects the needs of our audience providing them with everything they could need to find a course and make an application. Hopefully we'll be able to pleasantly surprise a few of our key stakeholders whilst we're at it as well!

So, we have another three weeks of analysis workshops and then we'll be looking at starting the build. The migration stages are going to be interesting with a variety of different systems all required to pull various pieces of data. Our saving grace at the moment is the inclusion of Funnelback within our planning, this could be the answer to at least a couple of our issues!

Week one is over with!

So, the first workshop session has taken place with Squiz and we have covered a lot of ground already. These early sessions are to help us look at how we are set-up at the moment and what potential issues we may have with migration of content to the new CMS.

A lot of thinking!

We have a very good website structure in place and this should work to our advantage, the issues start to arise when we look at the content within the site and the reasons things are there! This move looks like the perfect opportunity to have a deep clean of website content and project sites. With around 7,500 pages to migrate we should easily be able to remove 5% of those.

The next session is scheduled in for Friday and we're looking to cover Content Migration, LDAP, Single Sign On and the User Journey. Time to roll our sleeves up and get down to some technical discussions!