Website Project timeline

Discovery / Distil - target: End October 2021

• Interviews with Faculty and staff - By Mid October 2021 27 October 2021
• Interviews with students - October 2021
• Internal documentation reviewed - End September 2021 Training doc - 27 September 2021
• Initial specification for site - Early October 2021 22 December 2021
• Narrative development and visual approaches - Mid October 2021 3 November 2021
• Presentation of narratives to working group - Week of 25 October 2021 - Diary: 2 hour session 9 November 2021
• Adjustment and sign off of narrative - End October 2021 9 November 2021

Milestone: Completed specification, narrative and initial visuals

Discovery / Distil + - Optional internal sharing documents - target: Mid November 2021

• Presentation to Mindy - 23 November 2021
• Internal presentation and feedback package - First week November 2021
• Distribution and feedback - Mid November 2021
• Presentation to CWAG - 14 December 2021
• Feedback on initial spec - 22 January 2022 26 January 2022
• Sign-off on spec - End January 2022
• Symplectic spec sent to Steve - 4 February 2022
• Feedback on Symplectic spec - End February 2022 End March 2022

Design - target: End November 2021

• Development of design package for blog and main site core templates - Late November 2021 24th January 2022
• Additional design templates for centres - End November 2021 15 February 2022
• Additional design templates for projects/TBD - End November 2021 Early March 2022
• Revised home page design with home page variants - Early March 2022
• Presentation of designs to working group - By 3 December 2021 - Diary: 1 hour session 16 March 2022
• Presentation of blog design to blog stakeholders - 9 February 2022
• Presentation of centre design to centre stakeholders - 2 March 2022
• Review of student page designs with student group - Mid March 2022
• Approval of design pack by steering group - By 10 December 2021 Mid March 2022
• Distribution of design pack to faculty - Late February 2022 Late March 2022
• Feedback on design pack from faculty - Mid April 2022

Milestone: Completed design package

Design + - Component UI implementation

• Implementation of designs in Storybook - By January 7 2022 Early to late March 2022

Build/Refine: Blog - Development of blog - target: Mid February 2022

• Request server for blog and development - 14 February 2022
• Build blog on Drupal - By 14 January 2022 End February 2022
• Implement design on blog - Late February 2022 Early March 2022
• Review database for migration plan - Late March 2022
• Blog round 1 refine: Design review - By 21 January 2022 Early April 2022
• Integrate admin modules - Early April 2022
• Review and agree additional code requests for blog - Mid March 2022
• Implement code changes - Early April 2022
• Run test migration - Early April 2022
• User test of blog - Mid April 2022
• Migrate content of blog (lock blog changes ideally for 3 weeks - 1 week with additional resourcing & review/refine process) - By 28 January 2022 Mid April 2022
• Blog stakeholder group training - Mid April 2022
• Blog round 2 refine - By 4 February 2022 Mid April 2022
• Blog user manual - By 15 February 2022 End April 2022
• Blog round 3 refine - Early May 2022
• Go-live - Early May 2022

Note that we need to decide on how we will manage logins to the blog for editing. If small number of users we may want to use Drupal logins for simplicity and change to SSO later.

Milestone: Completed and live blog

Build/Refine: Main website (this section updated on 30/6/22)

• Build components -  Late April 2022
• Build website on Drupal -  Mid May 2022
• Implement design on website -  Mid May 2022
• Build sub-sites on Drupal -  Early July 2022
• Implement design on sub-sites -  Early July 2022
• Round 1 refine -  Late June 2022
• Integrate admin modules -  Early July 2022
• Test website -  Mid July 2022
• Run test migration -  Late July 2022
• Stakeholder group training -  Mid July 2022
• Round 2 refine -  Late July 2022
• Initial user training - To discuss timing
• Migrate content (lock website changes for 4 weeks) - August 2022
• Round 3 refine - Early September 2022
• Go-live - September 2022