Can WordPress be an "enterprise CMS" for a million dollar deal? What are the barriers to those kind of projects? How do you compete using WordPress? Where does WordPress, and the WordPress community, need to improve to take on these challenges?
2. @jakemgold
• Owner of 10up - a WordPress-focused agency with 17 full time employees, plus
several contractors - and growing (hint hint)
• Clients include Juicy Couture, Time Magazine, Consumer Reports, AT&T Interactive,
TechCrunch, Universal Sports, Trulia, & Bates College
• We contribute to WordPress core, and maintain some of the best rated, most
downloaded plug-ins
• Personal experience: small to huge business, small to huge non-profits, health care,
government contracting...
5. Premise
What’s a “big deal” for you with WordPress?
Have you done a WordPress project greater than $50k?
6. Premise
What’s a “big deal” for you with WordPress?
Have you done a WordPress project greater than $50k?
Greater than $100k?
7. Premise
What’s a “big deal” for you with WordPress?
Have you done a WordPress project greater than $50k?
Greater than $100k?
Why does ______ have their blog on WordPress, but not their site?
8. Premise
Which do you think of as being for really big, really expensive websites?
Which one do you associate with the smallest projects?
Can we change this?
19. Enterprises Heart Enterprises
Have a team. Period.
Include a project manager in conversations.
Partner with established, large agencies (WP or not).
20. Enterprises Heart Enterprises
Have a team. Period.
Include a project manager in conversations.
Partner with established, large agencies (WP or not).
Partner with Automattic -- VIP Support Program
24. Control & Predictability
Vast control over customization
Control over vendor process (not locked in)
25. Control & Predictability
Vast control over customization
Control over vendor process (not locked in)
Escape plan - full data access (limited on VIP)
26. Control & Predictability
Vast control over customization
Control over vendor process (not locked in)
Escape plan - full data access (limited on VIP)
Become part of the core WordPress team - you have influence
28. Enterprises Like Case Studies
What WordPress Can Do (Not Just What You’ve Done)
http://wordpress.org/showcase/
http://vip.wordpress.com/blog/
Demonstrate innovation extending WordPress for atypical needs
29. Players Can Be Political
Be wary of making IT or marketing feel threatened.
38. Enterprises Like Plans
Include discovery and documentation phase
Project management tools & processes
Quality assurance and auditing process
39. Enterprises Like Plans
Include discovery and documentation phase
Project management tools & processes
Quality assurance and auditing process
Approach to ongoing support & maintenance
50. Multilingual (International)
WPML (heavy)
QTranslate (inflexible)
Polylang (?)
Multilingual Press (?)
Independent Sites (bad workflow)
* We need to do better on this one.
52. You won it... but can you build it?
• Understand WP’s information architecture (post types, taxonomies,
object meta, etc.)
53. You won it... but can you build it?
• Understand WP’s information architecture (post types, taxonomies,
object meta, etc.)
• Grasp the importance of object caching & how to use it - and what
makes a site load slowly
54. You won it... but can you build it?
• Understand WP’s information architecture (post types, taxonomies,
object meta, etc.)
• Grasp the importance of object caching & how to use it - and what
makes a site load slowly
• If APIs are involved, understand WP_Http wrappers
57. Thoughts on the Future
Weak functional links:
multilingual | membership/registration | e-commerce
document management | content staging | content reuse
Core team needs help with standards compliance work
58. Thoughts on the Future
Weak functional links:
multilingual | membership/registration | e-commerce
document management | content staging | content reuse
Core team needs help with standards compliance work
Team players will grow faster
59. Discussion?
Enterprise Class WordPress
10up.com @10up @jakemgold
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Traffic.\nLanguages.\nBandwidth.\n
WILL I GET FIRED FOR HIRING YOU? “You never get fired for hiring IBM.”\n\nNo one man shows.\n
WORKFLOW\nINTERNAL IT / HOSTING\nACCESSIBILITY / GOV \nMULTILINGUAL\n
What MOTIVATES the players? Is it the business’s bottom line? Is it finding the best solution?\n
Budget expectations. If you go to a car dealer wanting to spend $35k on a great car, if the dealer brags about their $5k offers, are you going to seriously consider them? VALUE is still important, and a big selling point, but you want to be something PREMIUM.\n
This is arguably more important than the technology.\n
Many of us are still rebels. People love dating rebels. They hate marrying them. If you’re a one man show, forget it.\n\nI see 0 ties in this room,and I think I’m the only guy wearing a sports jacket. When I’m the dressed up guy, it says something. In general, I love that we’re not this type of community. But we need to realize that there are different expectations for many large businesses.\n
Don’t go into meeting alone.\n
Don’t go into meeting alone.\n
Don’t go into meeting alone.\n
Don’t go into meeting alone.\n
Where’s the road map for the next year to two years of feature development? Where’s the project plan and gantt chart for the next update? Who do I talk to if I want to get my feature in?\n\nEven the million dollar customer is a blip in the world of WordPress users.\n
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Many of us are still rebels. People love dating rebels. They hate marrying them. If you’re a one man show, forget it.\n
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This is about risk aversion. They are willing to spend more money to feel confident and cover their butts.\n
This is about risk aversion. They are willing to spend more money to feel confident and cover their butts.\n
This is about risk aversion. They are willing to spend more money to feel confident and cover their butts.\n
This is about risk aversion. They are willing to spend more money to feel confident and cover their butts.\n
This is about risk aversion. They are willing to spend more money to feel confident and cover their butts.\n
This is about risk aversion. They are willing to spend more money to feel confident and cover their butts.\n
This is about risk aversion. They are willing to spend more money to feel confident and cover their butts.\n
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Many of us are not prepared to scale PHP/MySQL to huge user bases. How many of you feel confident that you can have your client’s site withstand 200,000 uniques in an hour? How about 5 million a day? These guys have case studies and pros that give that confidence.\n
Include this in your plan.\n
Talk about how code can instantly be rolled back. Talk about how they’ll have access to a repository with all code and the code history. Talk about how you stage.\n