Hi all, Apologies for the cross post, but there are some great minds lurking out there and I need access to all of them :)
I work for a small .govt and have been charged with rebuilding the corporate site (many years old - all static and pretty messy). At first I thought myself and another developer could rebuild the site quietly in the Ministries cms-of-choice (Drupal) and involve relevant content editors along the way to inform the rebuild a bit. I wrote a brief business case and originally was given the all-clear. Then it went to senior management and I've since been charged with forming a project group with a represntative of every business group in the Ministry and running the project via the group with everyone getting to pitch in their 10c worth. I'm not overly excited, especially since I've seen firsthand how internal politics and endless meetings can strecth out a project like this. Often the the end result is something which meets everyone's perceived needs except the users and ends up having abandoned features in a few months when the people who are excited about "blogging" or "social networking" or "real-time chat" realise the actually have to update content and can't be bothered. I've also seen great websites built on short timeframes and small budgets where the project team was little more than a coordinator, a designer and a developer or two. Seeing as it's unlikely that I'm going to be able to avoid the traditional round-table project team thing, I'm looking for ways to get away from brainstorming on a whiteboard to actually getting users to test and provide feedback on the site as we go along. I'm leaning towards putting together some kind of usable prototype before the project officially starts, so we have something to guide and base decisions on, rather than things that sound fancy when spouted off in a meeting room. Any ideas / pointers? Paul --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
