1. Delivering an Agile project using the Government Digital Service’s “Service Manual” 2. Drupal as a favoured open-source content management system What Drupal offers and some risks to be aware of. 3. Mobile engagement. How Drupal supports responsive websites and how to develop adaptive content.

2. Delivering an Agile project using
Government Digital Service’s
“Service Manual”

3. GDS ‘Service Manual’ best practise
Discovery Alpha Beta Live

4. Agile – the key advantages
Continual reduction of uncertainty.

5. Agile – the key advantages
More control over the project management quality triangle.

6. Digitising services for the
Royal National Institute of Blind People

7. Digitising services for the
Royal National Institute of Blind People

8. Drupal as a favoured open-source
content management system

9. What Drupal has to offer
• Flexibility
• Cost
• Community-driven

10. Some of Drupal’s challenges
• Beware poorly planned websites
• Dependence on technical community and
absence of contractual obligations
• The recruitment market for development
resource

11. Mobile engagement and
development of adaptive content

12. Mobile engagement

13. Mobile engagement
Mobile as standard:
“We’re spending two hours online on our smartphones every day; twice
as long as laptops and PCs”
Ofcom, Aug 2015

14. Mobile engagement
And an opportunity:

15. Accessibility and mobile
46% of local council sites passed mobile accessibility tests compared
to a pass rate of between 65% and 71% for desktop access.

16. Drupal at Oxfordshire County
Council
Robert Hill – Digital Services Manager
robert.hill@oxfordshire.gov.uk

17. What’s Was Wrong With The
Old System?
Proprietary Web Content Management:
• Not cheap
• Rare skillset
• Opaque data format
• Hard to extend

18. Why Drupal?
• Free and open source
• Common skillset (LAMP: Linux, Apache,
MySQL, PHP)
• Transparent data format
• Easily extensible (10,000+ contributed
modules)

19. But Why Drupal?
• 8% of the top 10,000 Web sites
(second after Wordpress)*
• Major examples include whitehouse.gov,
economist.com
• Community of nearly 22,000 developers
• Support providers

20. What’s Wrong With Drupal?
• Too many ways to do things
– so: plan on spending time doing research and
testing – get advice!
• Unoptimised database queries
– so: need a mature caching strategy – get more
advice!

21. What Does It Do?
• Core functionality
– editing by small team
– flexible content schema
– simple navigation, taxonomies
– comments, blogs, forums, and polls
– search

22. Key Modules
• Views: flexible data presentation
• Panels: advanced layout
• Workbench: enterprise-oriented editing
workflow
• Web forms
• Content rating
• Apache Solr search engine

23. william.makower@panlogic.co.uk
will.danckwerts@panlogic.co.uk
robert.hill@oxfordshire.gov.uk