On Friday, April 10th, Database Designs' Steven Backman and Mimi Kantor were part of a panel leading  the workshop "Making it Real: Getting Project Management Right for Content Management Web Projects." This workshop explored how to adapt project management practices to content management-based web site projects.

Planning, architecting, designing, implementing, and releasing these types of sites have their own distinctive groove. Issues to discuss including coordinating extended virtual teams, flexible scheduling and pacing, when and how to do visual design for a CMS, and applicability of "agile development" concepts or other strategies for breaking the project into calendar phases. 

Other panel members included Heather Gardner-Madras of strategic creative and Ted Fickes from The Wilderness Society. 

NTEN is a great resource for nonprofits. It is a membership organization of nonprofit technology professionals that  "facilitates the exchange of knowledge and information within our community. We connect our members to each other, provide professional development opportunities, educate our constituency on issues of technology use in nonprofits, and spearhead groundbreaking research, advocacy, and education on technology issues affecting our entire community."

Visit the NTEN website at www.nten.org to follow the conference live. Check out the many resources available online.

See our slides from the workshop at http://bit.ly/b7xdph.