It’s impossible to avoid the term DevOps in the engineering world. While most companies haven’t moved to a fully mature DevOps system, there is no longer disagreement about whether it’s a good idea. When teams follow a DevOps approach, they release updates to production much more frequently, they can go from commit to deploy in seconds, and recovery from downtime is measured in minutes, not hours.
Content at its best—reliable, helpful, timely, honest—is what we need right now. As the world’s teachers, journalists, government agencies, and medical workers respond to the rapidly developing COVID-19 pandemic, they are reaching the public through content.
Most people tend to think the corporate world and the nonprofit world exist in two completely different galaxies, but they’re more alike than you think. Teams on both sides use the same collaboration tools, the same web team frameworks, and similar measurements for success.
Initially, these registered clubs started as places of support and community for returning Australian veterans, serving food and alcohol, and offering live music and gaming. Today, ClubsNSW is breathing life into these iconic institutions, providing digital solutions to real life problems and representing more than 1100 member clubs in New South Wales, or almost 90 per cent of clubs in the state.
Speed is not necessarily what you’re looking for with agile workflows. Rather, you’re aiming for the ability to think quickly and adapt accordingly without any downtime. If you want to stay ahead of the competition in the world we live in today, you have to focus on agile digital marketing principles. The digital landscape is constantly changing, so marketing experts have to adapt on the fly and make decisions quickly. No two agile digital marketing teams are alike, but the basic principles of the teams should be largely similar.
Retrospective meetings are critical components of working within agile principles. These meetings provide opportunities for teams to reflect on their latest sprint, learn what worked well, call out openings for improvement, and discuss how to leverage that knowledge to propel forward.
Some companies hold retrospectives at the close of a single sprint or after a few iterations. If the priorities or requirements change suddenly, a retrospective meeting might even be held mid-sprint.
Most executives understand how important their website is to their business and why it’s critical to take the same iterative, results-driven approach to managing their website that they take with the rest of digital marketing.
Yet most website teams are stuck in a ditch, making little to no forward progress, while everyone around them grows more and more frustrated. Eventually this leads to executives essentially giving up on the website as a means to drive the business and finding ways to work around it.
Why?
European food wholesaler Transgourmet hired 1xINTERNET, one of the biggest Drupal agencies in the EU and a Pantheon partner, to create a consistent, flexible solution that would enable the company to relaunch all of its websites.
That solution — Drupal running on Pantheon, plus a WebOps approach that enabled them to gradually make updates on a site-by-site basis — earned them not just a happy client, but an award.
With millions of customer visits a month, Aeroméxico needed to innovate web and mobile development, ensure high performance, and strengthen critical availability and reliability. The airline also sought to align design standards to support cross-promotional campaigns with Delta efficiently.
For website owners, no two days are alike. You spend much of your time sitting in back-to-back meetings—answering emails and Slack messages when you can—while trying to stay on top of your endless list of responsibilities. Somewhere in there, you build relationships with your team members, keep your organization’s strategic vision on track, and watch industry trends to keep your company competitive.