In this post I am interviewing Rogier Voet, a CMS facilitator that was the product owner in an Agile Projet with a team using AgileSites.
Hello I'm Rogier I'm 36 years old and worked primarily for websites whole my career with different kinds of roles, editor, community manager, project manager, content manager and the last years focusing on improvement and innovation of the KPN.com website
I'm a bridge between the business, who wants to achieve certain goals with the website (by adding functionality) and the development team. My specialty is making sure that the solution is user-friendly for both people who have to use/maintain it, but also for the end-user who uses the functionality on the website.
In my career I have seen a range of CMS tools, from custom developed (PHP) CMS-systems, to different kinds of CMS-software. Simple ones like WordPress, but also Tridion, (several versions of GX Webmanager), Drupal, Fatwire and the lasted version Webcenter Sites
I worked with KPN Sites, during Project LEGO, which was a Pilot to demonstrate that you can develop, sustain and innovate a website very fast using Agile, Fatwire and this framework. My role was Project Owner/CMS Expert, so I decided which functionality's were to be build and worked with the team so the output was both flexible and user friendly.
It was really an accelerator, normally you would much need more frontend development capacity (we only had one frontend developer available), and because of combined code it makes building upon your developed code much harder. Because you separate the work, it's easier to review and test, which is critical part of Agile Working.
The rate of development is much higher, also it makes it easier for both java and frontend to work together on a project.
I think it's both, but I really think Agile can be implemented. It's nothing new, but finally big company's are trying to get it. I worked with small teams for years using this type of methodology. The key part is independence and communication (feedback).
I think this framework is already a smart choice if someone wants to improve speed of development, and increase automated testing. I think it can be improved if the systems also helps more with the importing, exporting and merging code into Fatwire.
I love to spent time with my girlfriend, friends and family; I love playing board, card and computer games. I like to play golf, badminton and cycling. And I always enjoy reading good books and watching movies and serie
