[Sigia-l] Content Management Implementations
Todd R.Warfel
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Mon Mar 3 11:07:48 EST 2003
Well, when I came to Cornell, they didn't have a CMS. I insisted that
this was one of the first things we put into place. We did a 2-3 month
eval of several vendors (e.g. Vignette, Documentum, Divine
(OpenMarket), Interwoven, FatWire, ArticleBase, RedDot, ZapWerks). Then
I insisted that we plan a first phase at 6-9 months out, as we had to
run the process of requirements definition, design, testing,
prototyping, deployment, etc.
We have a total of around 15-20 sites we'll be migrating into FatWire's
UE over the next three years. We put together a loose three year plan
and we're working sites in one by one, as we go along.
One thing I've learned about Academia vs. the "real world" - timelines
in Academia are a bit longer. In the commercial world, we probably
would have had 6-8 weeks for the whole thing.
On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 10:33 AM, paula.thornton wrote:
> Pipe up anyone else who has been on an implementation, but
> implementation
> projects are still fundamentally driven by deadlines first and project
> plans
> are worked backward to fit the space. I've not seen one CMS
> implementation
> that was given more than 6 months implementation time (on their 'first'
> try). Yet, realistically, for what most of the projects I've been
> involved
> with were trying to accomplish -- total corporate content management
> -- it
> would have been nearly unrealistic to allow less than 6 months just
> for the
> requirements phase.
Cheers!
Todd R. Warfel
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