http://london2011.drupal.org/taxonomy/term/1734/0 en http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/sessions/im-leaving-you-risks-dumping-your-old-cms-drupal-and-how-manage-them <div class="field field-type-userreference field-field-presenters"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/users/nicole-lind" class="user-name">Nicole Lind</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>In the old days, moving to Drupal often meant converting static pages or templates to Drupal nodes. Today, it is rare that we get to build a site from scratch. Reality is that most major Drupal projects are now migrations from other content management systems.</p> <p>Taking on such a migration is not a trivial decision for an organization. There is a great deal of complexity in the reasons for migrating, but the decision is often not understood well amongst the various stakeholders.</p> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-audience"> <div class="field-label">Intended Audience:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> This session is geared toward project managers and managers dealing with significant risk associated with migration from a legacy CMS platform to Drupal. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-answered"> <div class="field-label">Questions answered by this session:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> How to set realistic expectations with stakeholders? </div> <div class="field-item even"> How to document an appropriate risk analysis and mitigation strategy in regards to a migration to Drupal? </div> <div class="field-item odd"> You got &quot;attitude&quot; from legacy CMS users? Strategies on how to best deal with them. </div> </div> </div> <fieldset class="fieldgroup group-schedule"><legend>Schedule info</legend><div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-session-slot"> <div class="field-label">Time slot:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/timeslot/24-august-1230-1330">24 August 12:30 - 13:30</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-session-room"> <div class="field-label">Room:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/room/arnhem-gallery">Arnhem Gallery</a> </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-session-slides"> <div class="field-label">Slides:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="filefield-file"><img class="filefield-icon field-icon-application-pdf" alt="application/pdf icon" src="http://london2011.drupal.org/sites/all/modules/contrib/filefield/icons/application-pdf.png" /><a href="/sites/default/files/nlindLondonSessionV2-notes.pdf" type="application/pdf; length=566344">nlindLondonSessionV2-notes.pdf</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/sessions/im-leaving-you-risks-dumping-your-old-cms-drupal-and-how-manage-them" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://london2011.drupal.org/conference/sessions/im-leaving-you-risks-dumping-your-old-cms-drupal-and-how-manage-them#comments Business and Best Practices Beginner change management CMS Legacy CMS Migration Project Management risk risk management risk mitigation training Thu, 12 May 2011 01:23:13 +0000 Nicole Lind 1199 at http://london2011.drupal.org