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With a few of the Microsites project team away, and some social engagements to enjoy, we still made steady progress in Sprint 5. Maria from Agile Collective tells us more...

User testing of the early prototype is complete!

In this sprint, we aimed to test the architecture and user experience of creating new microsites, assigning users, configuring the look and feel, and adding content to a page.

With 14 users across 5 councils lined up, we invited Kayo from Telltale Research as well as Steph and Rae from Agile Collective to explain how the work progressed.

Hear from councils across the country that are using LocalGov Drupal, as we discuss how and why they chose to collaborate on the project.

Tech Lead Finn Lewis with news of the latest microsite sprint, featuring updates on user testing, content types, and more.

Cumbria Council explain how they are using a clever Drupal module called Entity Share to allow the checking of content on a staging website, and then pushing whole sections to live when they're ready.

David Siddall, Digital Content and UX Manager at Waltham Forest Council, tells us why search was so important to their latest web build and how they implemented Solr.

Sometimes sprint planning can take much longer than expected! Such was the case with sprint 2 planning. We reached the end of our two hour planning session with plenty more work to do to define user stories and other tasks in terms of clear acceptance criteria.

Finn, our Tech Lead, explains more...

Finn and Richard tell us what happened in Sprint one of the Microsites project...

Sprint 1 started with a shift of energies. By sprint-end we had all rallied well and were able to demo a suite of decisions that gets us much closer to being able to start building. 

This is a regularly updated post containing information on our Microsites Working Group.

The aim is to keep everyone updated on the direction and progress of the work we’re doing.

David Siddall, Product Lead at Waltham Forest, explains how LocalGov Drupal saved them 3-6 months of development time and £90k in development costs.