Case Study

I am the head of tech for the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, a small 501(c)(3) non-profit consortium of mostly US law schools. I'm the sole developer/admin for our Drupal 7 website www.cali.org. The site gets between 3,000 & 5,000 unique visitors a day, mostly law students who spend upwards of an hour per visit working on the online tutorials that are our main product. We've been running the site on Drupal 7 for nearly a decade after migrating it from Drupal 6.

Title
Your Requirements Sherpa: A Business Analysis Case Study

Description
It’s an all too common tale: your project is over budget and late to launch because of misunderstandings of what was intended to be built in the first place. There can be many causes of this, including the following: 

Consisting of a show and tell of a selection of large and small site installations from various departments, schools and colleges at the University of Georgia, panelists including back end and front end developers, public relations experts, librarians, and web coordinators  will share their ship's timeline with Drupal versions and examples from the past, present and future.

As Digital Services Georgia upgraded their Drupal 7 multisite platform to Drupal 8, they capitalized on the opportunity to make improvements to their content model. 

Data migrations were customized to move and shape data to fit into new content types and fields. Let’s dive into some of the custom patterns and techniques used to migrate site data from the GeorgiaGov Platform to Georgia GovHUB.

Topics that will be covered:

• Paragraphs and Field Collections

• Circular Dependencies

Even though migration has come a long way since D7, there are still numerous opportunities for headaches.

This session is a case study of three issues I faced and how I resolved them:

- Needing a video field type widget, prior to the release of Media, that could be added to any content type on any site.

- Migrating D7 Location field content to D8 address fields 

- Populating the value portion of a body field from its D7 counterpart, but the summary portion from a completely separate field

You manage a site for an organization which can be broken down into smaller groups; individual "microsites", each a little website unto itself, having members, menus, content, taxonomy, etc. This could be departments within a large government or corporate entity or a site for fans of certain bands, authors, and you want to keep each site siloed off from the rest (while still being able to show aggregate lists of all groups’ microsites).

Content! It’s everywhere! It’s displayed on websites and in apps. It’s streamed to smartphones, televisions, and watches. It’s heard on podcasts, read aloud by voice assistants, and explored in immersive, three-dimensional virtual realities. With so many platforms, how can you keep pace with the rapidly changing landscape of digital experiences and content distribution?

In this session, you’ll learn how media companies, publishers, universities, and nonprofits are thriving by adopting platforms built for the future of content. We’ll talk about: