Greenpeace UK CMS Project

March 16, 2006

Since my last entry, I've been retained by the Greenpeace UK web team to continue working with them on the project we started planning at our away day three weeks ago (also since my last entry, I've learned that "away day" is the term used for "offsite" over here). The project involves replacing the http://greenpeace.org.uk CMS — so far we've scheduled the following activities to take place between now and the beginning of June:

• Define and prioritise the organisational/team objectives we're undertaking the project to achieve


• Identify and prioritise the user types we're undertaking the project to serve


• Define and prioritise our CMS requirements given the above


• Develop and perform a CMS feature evaluation comparing 3 open source CMS products, given our prioritised requirements


• Select an open source CMS product and (potentially) a vendor to work with to plan the design and implementation phases of the project, given the results of our feature evaluation


• Develop a schedule and budget for the design and implementation phases of the project

To prioritise our CMS requirements we'll be using a technique I've used before — if time permits, I may publish it here in steps as part of another HOW TO :)

projectmanagement, softwaredevelopment, nptech, open source, cms, greenpeace, importantprojects, ecampaigning