100 Sites, 6 Multisites, 12 Years Lessons from an Enterprise CMS Engagement
summary
136 sites across six multisite groups and a 12‑year engagement force concrete rules: create an inventory of live features, codify decision rights by role, and enforce centralized base profiles plus a module/plugin allowlist. Adding gates and documented intake cuts onboarding from weeks to days and lets a cookie policy rollout in days instead of months. Parallel platform work continues but governance decays without an internal owner; a simple 1–5 checklist (decision rights, codification, continuity, exception debt, intake discipline) exposes fragility.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 3:55Inheriting over 100 sites
- 7:50Governance and decision-making
- 13:42Implementing gates and processes
- 21:26Parallel track of maintenance
- 27:10Governance halflife and challenges
- 31:00Q&A session
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