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Five-day large site assessment

Make an informed decision on whether GovCMS is right for you with Salsa’s five-day large site assessment. Salsa will conduct an assessment to determine platform viability, approach, risks, costs and potential timelines based on your individual requirements.

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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).

Five-day assessment process	Morning session, on-site workshops	Afternoon session, off-site analysis
Day 1	Business drivers and KPIs: Defining business objectives and validating business objectives with KPIs. Functional discovery	Harvest, synthesise, analyse information
Day 2	Page templates review	Harvest, synthesise, analyse information
Day 3	Content types (content type definitions)	Harvest, synthesise, analyse information
Day 4	Integration touchpoints/ systems: These are the functional components that reside outside of Drupal, but require integration at some point(s) to meet the project requirements. Migration (content audit/assessment/familiarisation to identify content types and fields)	Harvest, synthesise, analyse information Write final report
Day 5	Technical discovery: Gathering sufficient information to produce the technical approach that will give the direction of the architecture of the solution. Solution viability	Harvest, synthesise, analyse information Write final report
Time TBC with customer	1 hour presentation: A presentation of the findings after the assessment, at the client's convenience (usually conducted remotely).

Outputs

The outputs from the five-day site assessment are:

Site functionality matrix: Finalised feature matrix serving as a visual representation of all functional requirements.
GovCMS viability matrix: Each functional requirement is classified to determine the level of configuration/customisation, and therefore compliance, with GovCMS SaaS or PaaS.
Solution design: Representing GovCMS solution direction, component architecture, content type specifications and high level design.
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.
Project requirement document: Representing scope with accompanying assumptions, risks and mitigations, and development estimates.
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.

Five-day assessment tasks	GovCMS Engagement Manager	GovCMS Solution Architect
Preparation	8	4
Workshop	20	20
Harvesting	20	20
Report	20	12
Presentation	6	0
Total hours		130
Total cost (@ $200/h +GST)		$26,000 +GST