Building bridges needs building materials, which you can find from Pacific Coast Building Products, a family of companies that manufacture and distribute construction materials such as brick, concrete, paper, and lumber products through their many subsidiary companies.

In this case study, we will present how Hook 42, the internal IT team, and the subsidiary business leadership are using a combination of people, process, and technology to execute a Drupal platform across their subsidiary sites.

Pacific Coast Companies chose Drupal as a stable and scalable unified web technology platform to provide consistent functionality across the subsidiary websites, brand sites with a fresh new look, provide the business users ownership of content, be mobile ready, and be more social media savvy.

Persons interested in managing and executing a large scale program and parallel Drupal development initiative should attend this session.

Please note that this program is in process of execution and sites have not yet been deployed to production (but should be before Portland). :-)

Big Ideas

• Getting started.
• Analyzing the sites.
• Defining the program.
• Getting cats into a herd. Uhh... Creating the team. :)
• Choosing a hosting vendor.
• Identifying Requirements. This part is really important. :-)
• Defining shared and unique functionality.
• Planning for efficiency - build a feature once, deploy to many sites.
• Working in parallel.
• Training the business users.
• Preparing for production.

Presenters

• Aimee Degnan, PMP, Stanford Certified Project Manager. Hook 42 CEO, Drupal Architect.
• A wonderful person from Pacific Coast, to be defined soon!