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CMS Design & Implementation (Fall 2021)

IT394-IT395
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DePaul University
DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Michael Chase
Instructor
(3)
3
Timeline
  • September 7, 2021
    Experience start
  • March 16, 2022
    Final Week of Class - Final Presentation
  • March 23, 2022
    Experience end
Experience
1/5 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Startup, Social Enterprise, Non profit, Small to medium enterprise, Family-Owned, Incubator
Any industries
Categories
Information technology Product or service launch Humanities Education
Skills
web development agile methodologies content management research search engine optimization (seo)
Learner goals and capabilities

Student-consultants will design and implement a content management system (CMS) to help you effectively manage your online content.

For more details about our class, please follow this link and review a series of informational documents about our class:

Link to DePaul Capstone (IT394-IT395) Documents

Learners
Undergraduate
Any level
35 learners
Project
120 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 6
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Students will provide your organization with a fully-functioning content management website.

Final deliverables include:

  • A team charter.
  • A product vision board.
  • Agile Scrum artifacts: Backlogs, User stories (ACC), and acceptance criteria.
  • Test plans and test results (expected and actual)
  • Feature Analysis Reports (AKA: Gap Analysis) with recommendations: Used for selecting CMS extensions (Plugins and Themes)
  • Training documentation: Document type determined by client.
  • A plugin and module lists.
  • Weekly status reports.
  • Weekly agendas and meeting minutes.
Project timeline
  • September 7, 2021
    Experience start
  • March 16, 2022
    Final Week of Class - Final Presentation
  • March 23, 2022
    Experience end
Project Examples

Starting this September, a group of 3-5 student-consultants will spend 25 hours per student (125 hours per team) working with your organization to recommend and implement a content management system (CMS) that best fits your needs. They will also provide training and reference materials, enabling your team to keep the site updated and organized.

Using Agile project management technology and knowledge gained from their computing and digital media courses, the student-consultants will help you design and implement an effective CMS website.

Example benefits include, but are not limited to:

  • Marketing your product/service website http://www.westtownbikes.org
  • Kickstarting your non-profit's fundraising efforts http://goodnewspartners.org

Students may use the following CMS systems, based on your requirements:

  • Drupal
  • WordPress
  • Squarespace
  • Weebly
  • Wix

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

This class employs the Agile methodology, which favors communication over documentation. Therefore, the student teams will communicate with you at least once a week by zoom, email or phone.

Provide a dedicated contact who will be available to answer periodic zoom, emails or phone calls over the duration of the project to address student’s questions or provide additional information.

The client makes the decisions. It is the student teas responsibility to do the research and provide analysis and recommendation for website extensions, such as plugins, themes, JS libraries.

Be available to work with the students to review their weekly sprint results and provide timely quality feedback to the team.