Session: Transformations of a team workflow

Date: Friday, July 13, 2018
Time: 2:00 - 2:45 pm (CDT) (UTC-05:00)
Location: Simon Hall 122
Format: General Lecture Session

Session description

Change is hard! Especially when a service team is asking hundreds of individuals and departments to totally reconfigure how they’re adding, updating and maintaining content on their websites—all while transforming their own processes, workflows and underlying infrastructure and technologies. That's exactly what happened to us during our OpenText to WordPress migration.

We will walk through our journey, highlight accomplishments and share lessons learned and how we continue to modify our processes with agile methodologies.

What attendees can hope to learn:

  • How important clear communication and thoughtful planning are in any sort of change.
  • Strategies to incorporate change into your workflow processes.
  • Continuous integration isn’t just a development thing.

Presenters

April Ebacher

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Frontend Development Team Lead/Supervisor, Division of Information Technology at University of Wisconsin-Madison

April Ebacher is a front-end web development team lead at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has over a decade of experience building rich internet applications utilizing and evangelizing for accessibility, usability, industry standards and best practices throughout the development life cycle. She has spent the last 4-5 years in academia, contributing to and assisting in the campus WordPress community.

Sessions

  • General Lecture Session: Transformations of a team workflow

Cathy Riley

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IT Project Manager, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Cathy Riley is the Project Manager for the WordPress Service at UW Madison.

Sessions

  • General Lecture Session: Transformations of a team workflow

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