Any large web project inevitably brings with it several stakeholders and sometimes dozens of them. Each one wants the new site to advance their personal or department’s mission.
Unfortunately, if your stakeholder team is a “stew with too many ingredients,” it can lead to any number of unproductive team behaviors.
Early in my career as a developer working with educational institutions, media organizations and other large companies, I could see that I stood on a figurative battlefield.
IT departments had fought a war with their marketing or communications counterparts over who truly owned the website. IT departments had incentives to slow down changes to prioritize stability and security. Marketing professionals had incentives to chase faster changes. That often meant giving more people access to more layers of the stack.
Pantheon Co-Founder Josh Koenig has been discussing the potential of Headless CMS for the better part of the last decade. He admitted he got some things wrong about it. Here’s the scoop.
Learn how to spot the three most common signs that your web team is taking on too much, along with how to avoid these mistakes for a burnout-proof web team that fires on all cylinders.
Pantheon is all about making the workday easier for developers, especially development teams. Agencies on Pantheon never cease to amaze us with the ways they incorporate our platform into their workflows, along with other awesome open-source tools.
On June 30, 2023, Pantheon discontinued support for its built-in LocalDev feature. We are making this change because in the years since we introduced LocalDev, a number of more fully-featured options have become available to developers, allowing offline development and code editing. Have no fear: we’re here to help you with the transition.
If you only worked 20 hours a month, what would you do with your spare time?
Would you take more trips to the beach? Learn to juggle?
Or would you spend hundreds of hours planning and delivering presentations about DevOps and WordPress?
Not many of us would have the selflessness to devote our time to teaching the community. Fortunately for us all, Carl Alexander has that level of dedication.