| Item |
Goal Date
(dates in italics are under discussion) |
Contingencies
(and notes) |
Lead Implementers |
Finis? |
| Write Mission Statement |
July 13, 2000 |
Needs approval from Council |
Whole team |
X |
| Immediate Upgrade |
August 15, 2000 (major changes)
Ongoing (minor changes) |
| Marilyn Hall (marketing)
Natalie Pastor (design) |
X |
| Peer Website evalutations |
July 26, 2000 (evaluations)
August 9, 2000 (synthesis) |
| Beth Deahl (content)
Brian Lenz (marketing) | X |
| Review of data | August 30, 2000 (needs assessments and survey)
August 15, 2000 and ongoing (site statistics) | Arrival of WebTrends software | Carolyn Baber (information architecture)
Laura Hudson (chair) | X |
| Content inventory |
October 15 (survey)
August 15, 2000 (inventory using SiteXpert software) |
| Content leads | X |
| Card sorting tests |
February 30, 2001 | | Information Architecture leads | X |
| Wire models | March 15, 2001 | | Information Architecture leads | X |
| Usability testing | April 30, 2001 | | Marketing leads | ongoing |
| Determine site structure and navigation systems |
April 30 , 2001 | | Information architecture leads | X |
| Design look and feel | April 30 , 2001 | | Graphic Design lead | X |
| Define author guidelines and standards | May 30, 2001 | | Marketing leads/Content leads | X |
| Build underlying database(s) | ? | Top-down support
(Depending on other choices, this need not hold up future steps) | Barry Dworak (technical coordinator)
John Pastori (co-chair) | ongoing |
| Define production and maintenance procedures | May 30, 2001 | | Whole team | X |
| HTML Production | June 1, 2001 | | Laura Hudson (chair) | now |
| Training for staff | June 30, 2001 | | Laura Hudson (chair) | now |
| External PR | July 30, 2001 and ongoing | | Marketing leads | X |
| Roll-out (champagne and pizza) |
August 1, 2001 | | Whole team | |
| Evaluation of new site |
August 1, 2001 and ongoing | | Marketing leads | |
| Changes based on evaluations | Ongoing | | Whole team | never done! |