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Maintaining governance plans
You must ensure your platform governance strategy does not lose track of websites on your platform after they launch. Long-term platform success depends on a successful launch, and training, testing, ongoing maintenance, and future enhancements.
When building a platform, you may often overlook the expense and time needed to create platform training and documentation. Having a large number of users on several different websites on a shared platform calls for more extensive, detailed documentation and training than required for a single website.
Review the following questions to consider as part of building your governance plan:
Your demo website or profile is typically where you and your users will test new features and perform user acceptance testing, automated testing, and training. Your governance plans must account for maintaining and using the profile, based on the following questions:
Platform maintenance is the necessary, periodic work required to keep your completed platform functioning as originally designed. When creating your platform governance strategy, ensure you allot time and resources for the post-launch needs of your properties, and for the platform where they reside. Some questions you must consider when planning include the following:
Acquia’s Remote Administration team can handle typical and routine Drupal administration tasks, allowing your team to focus on completing other high-priority tasks, including platform enhancements.
Unlike platform maintenance, platform enhancements are forward-looking plans to improve your platform by adding new features, improving current features, or resolving technical debt. You must consider the intended lifespan of the software packages on which your platform relies, including removing any reliance on software approaching end-of-life.
The following questions can help you refine your platform enhancement plans:
Platform maintenance is the necessary, periodic work required to keep your completed platform functioning as originally designed. When creating your platform governance strategy, ensure you allot time and resources for the post-launch needs of your properties, and for the platform where they reside. Some questions you must consider when planning include the following:
Acquia’s Remote Administration team can handle typical and routine Drupal administration tasks, allowing your team to focus on completing other high-priority tasks, including platform enhancements.
Unlike platform maintenance, platform enhancements are forward-looking plans to improve your platform by adding new features, improving current features, or resolving technical debt. You must consider the intended lifespan of the software packages on which your platform relies, including removing any reliance on software approaching end-of-life.
The following questions can help you refine your platform enhancement plans:
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