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Join this session to learn more about the ADAPT project to modernize the Alumni Directory, specifically about how we engaged with stakeholders across the university to agree upon one centralized Alumni Directory. 

Prior to the ADAPT project, the Alumni Directory was on PostGrads/PGNet where some schools had different instances of the Directory with outdated search capabilities. Our project team was able to engage with these stakeholders to move to one centralized Alumni Directory that uses a modern search engine, Coveo, that is now live as of March 2023.

It is critical to have a solid process for considering accessibility at every stage of the strategy, design, and development of a web project. Like many schools, Stanford University has a decentralized environment with many communications and web teams working together (or in teams of one!) to create and support beautiful, usable, secure, and effective websites and applications.

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Working in a decentralized organization can be a challenge as collaboration and communication channels need to be set up between multiple groups. Often it can be difficult to get everyone in the same meeting to discuss a project, decisions can go undocumented or not shared with those that were unable to attend, and meetings can often be the wrong format for someone to fully understand and think through what is being presented. 

The Stanford Humanities Center and Arcade, a digital salon, was looking to revolutionize their online presence. Through collaboration with a longstanding digital partner, Kalamuna, they were able to launch a new digital platform that allows users to encounter humanities research and reflection, unmediated. As such they are serving a broad community of fellows and former fellows, students, alumni, and the public.

The Site Audit module is a classic. It will reach 10 years old this June. It gives you a detailed report of your Drupal site in the web admin, providing a nice pass-fail display for review. It has a drush command that renders the report in HTML, text, or vulcan.

The next version of Site Audit can now not only display reports, but can save them over time, and send them to remote servers. A "Site Audit Server" module is now available to receive the reports via simple REST API.

This means you can:

“Think before you act,” is an age-old piece of advice given to prevent impulsive thought-to-action. How humans observe, process, and respond to interpersonal events is complicated.

The Ladder of Inference (LOI), created by organizational psychologist Chris Argyris, explains the unconscious steps an individual gets from a fact to an action.

Nowadays, the Support model is in the most advanced demand, and the Clients prefer to sign the Support and Maintenance contract after site development. In the Support contract, We prefer to manage the Drupal Security updates, Downtime/Uptime monitoring, Monthly consumption reports, AM support for escalations, etc.

In this session, I will explain to you how the support & Maintenance model works with the Kanban model. 

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We want to follow industry standards with our websites and apps. If the project managers understand the automation testing process and workflow that will change the picture overall and can also reduce the dependency on the people.

This session is for people who want to understand the process and workflow of automation and want to lead the process without any dependency.

Do you have an old Drupal site lying around? I do! My kristen.org site is still on Drupal 6!*** According to builtwith.com, there are about 400k sites still on Drupal 7, ~15k on Drupal 6, ~2k on Drupal 5, and even ~1k on Drupal 4!

In this session, we'll go some options for handling old Drupal sites including: