A Folk Tale Called Axe Porridge. Back Side of Out-of-the-Box Solutions.

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1 A Folk Tale Called Axe Porridge. Back Side of OutoftheBox Solutions. LUTSK DRUPALCAMP 2017 Nontechnical Case Study

2 Vasyl Yaremchuk Senior Drupal Developer, Drupal Practice Lead vasilyyaremchuk

4 Plot of this Folk Tale The old soldier is allowed to spend the night at a house in a village. He was hungry, but the old woman said that they had nothing to eat. Then the soldier found an unused axe that he offered to cook. It was a crazy idea, but the old woman allowed him to do so. During the process, the soldier asked the woman to give him a bit of salt, grain, vegetable oil etc. They ended up with an excellent porridge as a result. But when the old woman tried to taste the axe, the soldier answered that it wasn t ready yet.

5 What are the main features of Axe Porridge Case Study like an IT project? The first matter is a free solution as the starting point of the development process The second matter is the most important thing: we are implementing many small changes during the development process and charge the client for the changes The third is an unpredictably successful result of the project The fourth is that the initial free solution (the axe) is not included in final version of the product

6 A person (client, friend, relative) asks you about a fast, quick and cheap solution Did you think it s impossible?

7 If you can refuse such a project, then you ll have to! But sometimes you have no choice... try to find an OutoftheBox Solution

8 The First Case Study: my friend asked me to create two simple onepage sites with the information about his businesses Solution: Parade module parade Advantages: A responsive solution on the base of Bartik theme An excellent admin with WYSIWYG and a preview on the edit page

The Second Case Study: the sales department of our agency asked me to make several landing pages for their marketing campaigns ( http://partner.speedandfunction.

9 The Second Case Study: the sales department of our agency asked me to make several landing pages for their marketing campaigns ( ) Solution: Paragraphs LandingPage Framework Domain Access Domain Site Settings Advantages: A responsive solution on the basis of Bootstrap 3 A humanfriendly contentmanagement admin area with paragraphs A separate theme for each separate landing page

com/scholarly/ default/ Advantages: A complete responsive solution It s about 80% of the

10 The Third Case Study: Our company has promised to make a corporate site in exchange for agile training sessions Solution: Scholarly theme default/ Advantages: A complete responsive solution It s about 80% of the functionality we are going to include in the site But there are some unexpected things (next slide)

11 The Third Case Study: the unexpected surprises of nonopensource outofthebox solutions There is a subscribe form in the block in the footer. Actually it s a fake nondrupal form hardcoded in a custom block body field.

12 Several Conclusions Based on my own Drupal Development Practice It worth it to use outofthebox solutions for small and medium projects. Opensource outofthebox solutions are much better than commercial ones. It worth it to use an outofthebox solution if it covers at least 80% of the required functionality. Sure, we can spend significant time on customization to cover the missing 20%. And finally, we can use outofthebox solutions for marketing purposes as the axe from the folk tale to start working with a client. Or it can be taken as the initial step in project development.

13 my question to the audience Have you ever used an outofthebox solution as the axe from the folk tale in your projects?

14 Thank you for your visit to my presentation!

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