Firehouse.com or "So How Fast Can You Build A Site?"
Submitted by MatthewS on June 30, 2009 - 01:08
Your session in a few words:
Firehouse came to pingVision with a challenge--Build a 3/4's of a person year project in 8 weeks. Here's what happened.
Track:
From zero to hero
Session Type:
Lecture
Level of expertise:
Beginner
Language:
English Firehouse.com came to us and asked that we redevelop their site so we looked at the existing site. Then we discovered that they had a partially completed Drupal installation that wanted us to review. We looked at and thought, "This isn't so bad. It'll take 300-400 hours tops!"
Then they sent the requirements documents... We realised we were looking at least 3/4's of a person year and they needed it in 8 weeks.
This is the story of what we learned, how we adapted, and where we found ourselves at the beginning of July.
This presentation will be led by Matthew Saunders, John Fiala, and Elizabeth Hause from pingVision along with pingVision team members.
The Firehouse site has not yet launched but will be available by end of summer.
