GovCMS five-day website assessment

Assessment overview

The five-day site assessment is suitable for larger or more complex sites. The five days are broken into five half-day workshops and five half days that cover data harvesting, assessment, solution analysis and report writing.

The final report assesses the site requirements against the current GovCMS functionality and makes a recommendation for which service offering, SaaS or PaaS, is the best fit.

Cost: $26,000 + GST per site (see breakdown below)

Engagement process

Our five-day site assessment includes five half-day, on-site workshops. The highly collaborative and interactive workshops are run with key stakeholders to understand site requirements and viability. A final one-hour presentation is delivered at a time that suits you (usually conducted remotely).

Outputs

The outputs from the five-day site assessment are:

1. Site functionality matrix: Finalised feature matrix serving as a visual representation of all functional requirements.

2. GovCMS viability matrix: Each functional requirement is classified to determine the level of configuration/customisation, and therefore compliance, with GovCMS SaaS or PaaS.

3. Solution design: Representing GovCMS solution direction, component architecture, content type specifications and high level design.

4. SaaS vs PaaS evaluation matrix: Identifying which requirements are compliant versus non-compliant for GovCMS, and mitigation strategies or alternatives for non-compliant, if required.

5. Project requirement document: Representing scope with accompanying assumptions, risks and mitigations, and development estimates.

6. GovCMS assessment report: Executive summary slide deck for stakeholders representing assessment findings and Salsa’s SaaS vs PaaS recommendation.

Outcomes

• Clear understanding of GovCMS SaaS viability and optional mitigations and/or alternatives for areas of non-compliance

• Enables key stakeholders to make an informed decision on GovCMS SaaS vs PaaS

Assumptions

We assume the following parameters to represent a ‘large complexity project’:

• Content migration

• Up to 15 content types

• Up to 10 distinct page templates

• External integrations required

• Up to 16 features

Exclusions

We exclude the following activities in assessments:

• Visual design and IA development

• Creative discovery

• Any relevant travel and lodging costs for onsite workshop/ attendance

Other good things to know

• GovCMS SaaS compliance classification — For each high level requirement a functional classification will be given on the level of GovCMS SaaS/PaaS configuration required. For example, basic config, theme development, ‘contrib’ module or custom module, etc.

• Optional mitigation strategies or alternatives are provided if/when SaaS non-compliant requirements are identified.

Fixed price packages

Below is a summary of the resources, their activities and associated hours and costs to deliver the five-day assessment.