The Discomfort and Messiness in Big Projects (and how To Get Past It) 2025 | UCISA | 27 May 2025 | Online
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| Event Date |
Wed May 28 UTC (14 days ago)
In your timezone (EDT): Tue May 27 8:00pm - Tue May 27 8:00pm |
| Location | Online |
| Region | All |
Details
The bigger the project, the more complex it is, and those complexities make things messy, and sometimes uncomfortable.
The Prospective Student Web team at the University of Edinburgh recently completed a big, multi-year project, developing a new content management system to deliver their prospective student website used by over 11 million users each year. Over the first year of the project, there were a number of uncomfortable and messy experiences, including:
• a rocky start in project leadership
• collaboration difficulties trying to get colleagues across disciplines aligned
• a content design challenge around entry requirements so complex it felt like a big project within another big project
In this talk, Speaker, Senior Content Designer, will share her perspective on the challenging experiences the team faced along the way, how they tackled them, and what they learned.
Speakers
2025 Speaker
Lauren Tormey
Senior Content Designer, University of Edinburgh