Zen Garden The first-ever Sitecore development accelerator
Transcript of Zen Garden The first-ever Sitecore development accelerator
Zen GardenThe first-ever Sitecore
development accelerator
Adam Najmanowicz
Cognifide
Sitecore User Group Conference 2015 1
Who’s that guy?
• Obsessed with efficiency.
• Head of Product Engineering @cognifide
• Just won’t shut up about PowerShell!
• … don’t get him started or you won’t hear
the end of it …
• …no really… it’s not a joke, it’s a life-hack!
• Sitecore MVP
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The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen
Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200
SEO
Ad
Networks
Video
Mobile
Social
CRM
DMP
Retargeting
E-Commerce
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Mobile
Mobile
EmailMktg
Mobile
Social Video
Mobile
Companies find it hard to deliver websites rapidly and cheaply across the spectrum
of demand
Sitecore developer resource needs to be highly skilled
and thus expensive
Lack of governance and process frameworks to
manage cross division and multi-disciplinary teams
Websites are custom built –management, maintenance
and Sitecore upgrade become difficult
Re-use of code is very low increasing cost and delivery
timeframes
Seemingly simple change requests take a long time to
deliver due to bespoke nature of applications
Challenges facing digital businesses
Zen Garden coupled with new
development practices, allows you
to resolve the challenges delivering
on your client’s demand.
Meanwhile our clients want to…
The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen
Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200
Introducing Zen Garden
The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen
Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200
The first Sitecore accelerator allowing
digital businesses to deploy and maintain
multiple sites quickly and cost effectively.
Introducing Zen Garden
The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen
Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200
Drag & Drop page building within the Sitecore Page Editor
Create sites with the ease of WordPress™.
Use themes to enforce brand consistency.
Assemble sites using responsive & reusable
components.
Centralize and govern change across digital landscape.
Enables different work streams to run in parallel.
Accelerate the site production process.
Zen Garden benefits
The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen
Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200
Normally
BAU
Code Release
Code Release
Code Release
Content
Layouts, User Experience
Component Design
Platform
Zen Garden
BAU
BAU
BAU
Code Release
Type of Change
Digital Agility: Tiers of Change
The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen
Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200
Based on a powerful grid system!
The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen
Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200
Zen Garden enables creatives, designers, developers and content teams to work seamlessly in parallel
LinearSite
Production
time to market
User ExperienceCapture and define the user experience
Visual DesignCreate the visual design to satisfy the user experience
Front End DevelopmentDevelop theme/style/layouts to implement visual design
Back End DevelopmentReuse, configure and/or build site components
Content EntryAdd content and assets.
ParallelSite
Co-Production
Parallel Production
The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen
Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200
Zen Garden enables creatives, designers, developers and content teams to work seamlessly in parallel
What do we need? A recruitment site!
The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen
Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200
Zen Garden enables creatives, designers, developers and content teams to work seamlessly in parallel
What do we need? A recruitment site!
The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen
Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200
Zen Garden enables creatives, designers, developers and content teams to work seamlessly in parallel
When do we need it? REALLY REALLY FAST!
The future of digital marketing. London . Poznań, Copenhagen
Clerkenwell House, 67 Clerkenwell Road, London, United Kingdom +44 (0)20 3475 7200
Enough talk!
Thank you
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