Tag1 Team Talks | The Tag1 Consulting Podcast
122 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -From global technology consulting firm Tag1 Consulting, Tag1 Team Talks are wide-ranging, in-depth conversations about implementing various open-source technologies, including the business prerogatives and technical ins and outs with leading web developers and technologists. Join us as we explore trends in open source.
About Tag1
At Tag1, we are redefining the boundaries of digital possibilities. As a leading name in the industry, we are committed to delivering innovative and tailored solutions that meet your specific needs.
Our strength lies in our team. We boast a roster of highly skilled professionals, many of whom are principal architects and maintainers of crucial Drupal projects and core initiatives. Their wealth of experience and unique insights drive our success.
Our expertise at Tag1 is both broad and deep. We specialize in Enterprise-Scale Web Applications, CMS solutions, Drupal Upgrades and Migrations, and Full Digital Transformations. We also excel in Integrations and Custom Development, ensuring our solutions align with your business objectives. In Infrastructure and Scalability Architecture, we design systems ready to meet current needs and scale with future growth. Our capabilities are diverse, proven, and reliable.
Security at Tag1 is a fundamental aspect, not an afterthought. We prioritize safeguarding your digital assets in every solution we deliver.
We proudly partner with industry leaders, including Global 500s (Google, Sumitomo), Fortune 500s (Symantec, Albemarle), system integrators (NTT, Capgemini), government agencies (the White House, the European Union), media companies (NY Times, Al Jazeera), educational institutions (Stanford, Smithsonian Institute), not-for-profits (AFL-CIO, ACLU), and more.
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Integrating DevOps into Your Organization: DevOps is a culture, not a Technology - Tag1 Team Talk
June 17, 2021 14:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBDevOps is a word or phrase that’s getting more and more attention as organizations move more towards delivering applications and infrastructure services through automated IT processes. Rather than automate IT staff out of a job, DevOps aims to reduce time spent on repetitive processes, and enable personnel to focus on bigger problems as well as developing technologies. DevOps, at its core, aims to build tools to help developers do their work, and deploy it more easily and efficiently. In th...
Inside the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) with Emma Jane Hogbin - Tag1 TeamTalk
May 26, 2021 15:00 - 40 minutes - 36.9 MBDisaster response is a critical humanitarian effort, requiring collaboration and organization - sometimes on a massive scale. From earthquakes in Nepal and Haiti to hurricanes in the Bahamas and other massive disasters, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA) is a resource for relief efforts. Emma Jane Hogbin of OCHA joins Managing Director Michael Meyers in this Tag1 Team Talk on OCHA, what it does, and how OCHA works to ensure humanitarian groups h...
Laravel - from the evolution of monolithic applications to the revolution of fully decoupled systems: The future of application development in Laravel (with VILT and TALL)- Part 3
May 19, 2021 13:00 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBIn our final installment of our series on Laravel, Senior Software Engineer Laslo Horvath and Managing Director Michael Meyers talk about the future of application development, and Laravel’s role in that future. Laravel’s strengths include a strong push towards reusable components. This methodology enables developers and designers to take advantage of using the things they need and leave everything else behind. Laravel-based stacks enable website builders to more easily switch from develop...
On 20 Years of Drupal - An interview with Emma Jane Hogbin - Tag1 TeamTalk
May 12, 2021 14:00 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBMany of Tag1’s team members have worked in various other companies and organizations during the 20 years Drupal has existed. In those many years, we have worked for and collaborated with other Drupal users and developers all over the world. This Tag1 Team Talk highlights one of those people. In this special edition of our 20 years of Drupal series, we are pleased to welcome Emma Jane Hogbin. Emma Jane was a very early user of Drupal and has written or contributed to documentation on Drupal....
Laravel, the evolution: challenges with monolithic apps and fully decoupled systems - finding a middle ground - Part 2
May 10, 2021 13:00 - 21 minutes - 19.6 MBThere are pros and cons to every type of software installation - from ease of use and maintenance, to separation of concerns, to division of expertise. Finding the system that works best for you or your company may require a lot of research and some weighty decisions. Does a single system meet your needs? Do you have a great back-end setup, but you need to separate your front end from it for business reasons? In the second installment in our three-part series on Laravel, Managing Director M...
An overview of Laravel- from the evolution of monolithic applications to the revolution of fully decoupled systems - Part 1
May 03, 2021 13:15 - 18 minutes - 17 MBWebsites, like everything else, vary based on the needs of your organization. Website development tactics range from completely monolithic, where your application is a single-tier with all of your code running on as a single program on one platform, to fully decoupled, where your front and back ends are managed by different systems. In the first part of this three-part series, Senior Software Engineer Laslo Horvath joins Managing Director Michael Meyers for an overview of Laravel. Laravel i...
Automating Infrastructure with EKS and Pulumi to Deploy New Enterprise Web Applications in Minutes - Part 2 - Tag1 TeamTalk
April 26, 2021 14:30 - 25 minutes - 23.8 MBAutomated deployment of software - whether it’s new packages, patches, or configuration changes - is a fact of life in modern software development and management. Automated infrastructure, however, is a newer set of tools and processes. With Amazon EKS and Pulumi, Tag1 is tackling these challenges to meet the needs of Fortune 500 customers. In this second part of our series on automating infrastructure, Managing Director Michael Meyers is joined by CIO Jeff Sheltren and Senior Infrastructu...
Automating Infrastructure with EKS and Pulumi to Deploy New Enterprise Web Applications in Minutes - Part 1- Tag1 TeamTalk
April 21, 2021 13:00 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBToday’s business reality is nearly every company needs at least one website in order to be successful in their business. As organizations get larger, the number of websites companies need also increases. From Human Resources, to sales support, to customer service and support, different groups in your organization may have some similar needs, but different access levels. Making these websites turnkey can reduce the amount of time your IT or devops teams need to spend standing up resources. ...
A Deep Dive Into End To End Encryption (E2EE) in Yjs - Part 2 - Tag1 TeamTalk
April 19, 2021 13:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBThere are significant challenges in implementation of E2EE protocols, from who handles the security, to ensuring all participants can access the same data. E2e encryption introduced lots of challenges for history snapshots and what it means for Tombstones. Multiple types of encryption: local, using keys, and end to end all have different implementations and implications when using a collaborative app - especially a decentralized one. In this second part of our two part talk, dive into the ...
Open Source Leader Series: Financially Supporting Your Open Source Development Work - with Dries Buytaert - Pt. 2
April 07, 2021 13:00 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MBWhile there are many companies based in open source software that are successfully funding themselves based on consultancy and other services, that’s not necessarily true of individual contributors. As part of our series of talks with Open Source Leaders, Tag1 Consulting’s Managing Director Michael Meyers, VP of Software Engineering Fabian Franz, and Yjs founder Kevin Jahns talk with Drupal's founder, Dries Buytaert about open source projects and communities. This talk focuses on open sourc...
A Deep Dive into End-to-End Encryption (E2EE) in Yjs - Part 1 - Tag1 TeamTalk
April 05, 2021 13:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBIn today’s electronically driven communication world, data security is no small matter. What’s safe? Who do you trust? Who else can access your data, and do you even know who those people or companies are selling it to? A critical part of data security is encryption. It protects everything from our personal information, helping prevent identity theft, financial information like your bank account and credit card from being accessed, to company secrets. According to a 2019 CNBC article, cyber...
Open Source Leader Series: How to Grow, Support & Fund Your Open Source Project - with Dries Buytaert - Pt. 1
March 31, 2021 13:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBDries Buytaert’s name is known to everyone in the Drupal community. As the originator of the project, project lead, and co-founder of Acquia, Dries has been a pivotal person in the success of Drupal. During this interview, you’ll learn more about some of the accomplishments, accidents, and purposeful decisions that have made Drupal what it is today. While Drupal is an open source project, based in code, many of the things that have made it the CMS that powers 1 out of every 30 websites are...
A Deep Dive on Decoupling Applications: Decoupled Drupal- Past, Present & Future - Part 2 - Tag1 TeamTalk
March 29, 2021 13:00 - 18 minutes - 17.3 MBDecoupled Drupal is now a fixture of the Drupal community and ecosystem, but it has roots in key software concepts like the separation of concerns. Today, decoupled Drupal is commonplace across the Drupal world, not only at the highest echelons of enterprise implementations of Drupal, but also among smaller consultancies beginning to get their feet wet with headless CMS architecture. From the early days of Drupal's remarkably prescient web services, to the adoption of the JSON:API specifica...
AFT's Share My Lesson Part 3 - Building on Success, and What’s Next - Tag1 TeamTalk
March 24, 2021 13:00 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBIn our final episode with the American Federation of Teachers Director of Share My Lesson and eLearning, Kelly Booz, you’ll find out the goals that the Share My Lesson team aimed for with the updated version of their website. Many of these goals have the intention of helping SML users find what they need, or in some cases, who they need. Accessibility is a key factor for SML, from mobile support to responsive theming, to better usability for everyone. Other improvements like better curatio...
A Deep Dive on Decoupling Applications: An Overview of Decoupled Applications & Systems - Part 1 - Tag1 TeamTalk
March 22, 2021 13:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBFrom the early days of #Drupal's remarkably prescient web services to the adoption of the #JSONAPI standard in Drupal core, to the innovation surrounding #GraphQL and the Decoupled Menus Initiative in Drupal, how has #DecoupledDrupal evolved over the years and why is it still in vogue? Learn from Preston So, the author of the bible on #HeadlessDrupal, co-originator of the term progressive decoupling, and Tag1 Consulting's Editor in Chief in this wide-ranging conversation with Michael Meyers...
AFT's Share My Lesson: Part 2 - Rapid Growth and Challenges Faced - Tag1 TeamTalk
March 16, 2021 13:00 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MBDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, education looks as different as everything else. Teachers and other educators are working hard to help their students learn, and lesson plans are often key to that learning experience. People are most familiar with collaboration in person - but the current situation means more of us, educators included, are working and sharing resources online. Share My Lesson provides free resources for teachers, parents, and other educators. The American Federation of Teacher...
On 20 Years of Drupal - An interview with Narayan Newton - Tag1 TeamTalk miniseries
March 12, 2021 13:00 - 14 minutes - 12.9 MBWhen you think about Drupal.org’s infrastructure - what it takes to keep the website running, one of the first names that come to our mind is Tag1's CTO Narayan Newton. Narayan has long been the head of the team that keeps Drupal.org secure and available to everyone. In this Tag1 Team Talk, Managing Director Michael Meyers talks with Narayan about how he got started, some of the work that goes into maintaining Drupal’s websites and repositories, and the things he’s learned over the years.
Open Source Leader Series: Funding your Open Source Project: A talk with Marijn Haverbeke - Pt. 2
March 10, 2021 13:00 - 26 minutes - 23.8 MBFunding your interests isn’t always easy, and that’s true of many open source projects as well. The majority of open source projects are created and maintained by people working on their projects in their spare time. For some, their employers or other companies are willing and able to sponsor open source development projects, enabling their maintainers to do work they would not otherwise be able to do. In this Tag1 Team Talk, ProseMirror, CodeMirror and Acorn project founder Marijn Haverbek...
AFT's Share My Lesson - Building the Largest Online Repository for Lesson Plans - Tag1 TeamTalk
March 09, 2021 13:00 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBThe American Federation of Teachers is one of the largest unions in the United States, representing 1.7 million members, including educators of all types - from teachers to nurses to support staff, and others. In their roles as educators and staff, their mission is to provide opportunities and education for everyone. Share My Lesson is the AFT’s website for sharing lessons, lesson plans, and other resources for educators of all types. These free resources provide a platform for teachers, ho...
On 20 Years of Drupal - An interview with Greg Lund-Chaix - Tag1 TeamTalk miniseries
March 08, 2021 13:00 - 17 minutes - 16.3 MBWriting code isn’t the only way that people have contributed to Drupal over the 20 years it’s been around. Drupal would never have been successful without its supporting infrastructure. In this edition of our Drupal anniversary series, Managing Director Michael Meyers hosts Senior Infrastructure Engineer Greg Lund-Chaix to talk about some of the ways contributions happen without writing code, and to remember some of Drupal’s earliest time at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab.
On 20 Years of Drupal - An interview with Fabian Franz - Tag1 TeamTalk miniseries
March 03, 2021 13:30 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBVice President of Software Engineering Fabian Franz, is another of Tag1 Consulting’s long time contributors to Drupal. Fabian is a core committer, helped bring Twig into Drupal Core, and helped develop and is a maintainer of Drupal’s caching system. In this Tag1 Team Talk, Managing Director Michael Meyers caught up with Fabian to talk about Fabian’s time in the community, what he’s most passionate about and proud of, and how he got to where he is today, as we celebrate 20 years of Drupal.
Open Source Leader Series: How to Grow, Support & Fund Your Open Source Project - with Marijn Haverbeke - Pt. 1
March 02, 2021 12:40 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBWhile many open source projects are successful due in part to their large contributor base, not all projects work best that way; other project leaders prefer to keep contributions from others tightly controlled. Depending on the use cases, either method can work well. For CodeMirror and ProseMirror, a tightly controlled code base is part of the culture of the project. Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers, Vice President of Software Development Fabian Franz, and Yjs creator Kevin Jahns tal...
On 20 Years of Drupal - An interview with Nat Catchpole - Tag1 TeamTalk miniseries
March 01, 2021 13:00 - 18 minutes - 17 MBIn our ongoing series of Tag1 Team Talks commemorating the 20th anniversary of Drupal, Tag1 Senior Architect and long-time Drupal contributor Nat Catchpole joins Managing Director Michael Meyers to talk about Catch’s time in the Drupal community. Catch has nearly 8500 commits in his 15 years working with Drupal. He’s worked on a wide variety of modules, as well as holding the dual positions of Drupal core release manager and the Framework manager. His focus on performance and scalability h...
On 20 Years of Drupal - An interview with Francesco Placella - Tag1 TeamTalk miniseries
February 26, 2021 13:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MBTag1’s 20 years of Drupal series continues with an interview with Senior Architect Francesco (aka: Plach) Placella. Francesco has had a Drupal.org account for over thirteen years and in that time has made his own significant contributions. In this Tag1 Team Talk, Managing Director Michael Meyers talks with Plach about his years in the community, what he’s done in that time, and some of his favorite things. Francesco, a native Italian, has been a major contributor to his area of focus: multi...
On (almost) 20 Years of Drupal - An interview with Moshe Weitzman - Tag1 TeamTalk miniseries
February 24, 2021 13:00 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBMoshe Weitzman is one of the most long-standing contributors to Drupal, with one of the lowest user IDs around. His many additions to the project include the long-term maintenance of Drush, to his most recent addition: Drupal Test Traits. In this edition of our Tag1 Team Talks, Moshe takes time out of his schedule to talk with Michael Meyers, Managing Director of Tag1 to talk about the ups and downs and all of their experiences over the past 19 years and 10 months - just a couple of months...
On 20 Years of Drupal - An interview with Marco Molinari - Tag1 TeamTalk miniseries
February 22, 2021 12:30 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBIn this installment of our 20 years of Drupal series of Tag1 Team Talks, Managing DIrector Michael Meyers talks with another of the earliest Drupalers, Marco Molinari. Marco has been a part of the Drupal community for nearly 20 years, joining the project at about the same time as Tag1 team member Moshe Weitzman. As the creator of the taxonomy, forum, and image modules, Marco contributed some of the most widely used features in Drupal. Marco’s contributions have shaped a significant portion...
On 20 Years of Drupal - An interview with Michael Meyers - Tag1 TeamTalk miniseries
February 19, 2021 13:00 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBTag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers has been a face in front of the Drupal community for over 16 years. His enthusiasm, willingness to talk with everyone in the community about the challenges they face, and readiness to meet those challenges - from his own companies or the companies he works for, have been a force in Drupal. In this installment of our 20 years of Drupal series, Tag1 Principal Technical Writer Lynette Miles gives Michael the opportunity to talk about his experiences from t...
On 20 Years of Drupal - An interview with Doug Green - Tag1 TeamTalk MiniSeries
February 18, 2021 13:00 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBIn our 20 years of Drupal series, Tag1 Consulting team members talk about their experiences and memories as part of the community. In this installment, Managing Director Michael Meyers talks with Senior Architect Doug Green. Doug is the creator of the Coder module. He has been a Drupal.org member for over 16 years and has contributed to dozens of modules as well as maintaining the modules he has created for the community.
On 20 Years of Drupal - An interview with Jeremy Andrews - Tag1 TeamTalk MiniSeries
February 17, 2021 13:00 - 13 minutes - 12 MBTag1 Founder and CEO Jeremy Andrews has been in the Drupal community for nearly all of its existence. From one of the earliest Drupal websites to Editor-in-Chief to the first and only paper publication focused on Drupal (still available at drupalwatchdog.net), to the success of Tag1 Consulting itself, Jeremy’s experience is nearly unmatched. To kick off our ongoing series of Team Talks covering 20 years of Drupal, Jeremy joins Managing Director Michael Meyers for a short discussion about th...
An Update on Automatic Updates - Tag1 TeamTalk - #030
February 10, 2021 12:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBThe Automatic Updates initiative in Drupal has made significant progress since we first discussed it in our third-ever Tag1 Team Talk. Bringing automatic updates into Drupal core is a significant step in helping small to medium-sized Drupal installations be able to keep running, with less time dedicated to maintenance. In this talk, Tag1 Managing Director Michael Meyers sits down with Senior Back End Engineer and Migration Lead Lucas Hedding to discuss the progress of the Auto Update system...
Lessons Learned: Contributing to Open Source Projects (Part 2) - Tag1 TeamTalk - #029.2
January 11, 2021 14:30 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MBThe true heart of any open source project is the community behind it. The continued success of a project depends on that community, its activity, and continued adoption and contributions. When you contribute back to a project, you not only help the project, you help the community, the next generation, and yourself. In this Tag1 Team Talk, Michael Meyers (Managing Director of Tag1 Consulting) talks with Lucas Hedding (migrate, auto update, new module reviews/mentorship of new contributor...
Lessons Learned: Contributing to Open Source Projects (Part 1) Tag1 TeamTalk - #029.1
January 04, 2021 14:30 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBOpen source doesn’t get very far without a community behind it. Many contributors to open source projects are members or leaders of other projects. While new projects and new communities are constantly being created, there are many lessons to be learned from older projects In this Tag1 Team Talk, Michael Meyers (Managing Director of Tag1 Consulting) talks with Lucas Hedding (migrate, auto-update, new module reviews/mentorship of new contributors), Janez Urevc (media initiative owner, Mong...
Drupal Extended Support Pt. 3: What is the plan for Drupal 8 Extended Support? - Tag1 TeamTalk #028.3
November 18, 2020 13:00 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBDrupal 8’s end of life is only a year away (Nov 2021), and that date is unchangeable. Are you ready? Do you need to know more about why you should get started upgrading? Do you want to know if there’s going to be a Drupal 8 Extended Support program (spoiler: there isn’t). In the final session of this special three-part series of @Tag1 Consulting's Tag1 Team Talks, join @Jeremy Andrews (Founder and CEO at Tag1), @Michael Meyers (Managing Director at Tag1), and your host @Preston So (Editor...
Drupal 7 Extended Support Pt. 2: How the Tag1 Quo Drupal 7 program works - Tag1 TeamTalk #028.2
November 11, 2020 13:00 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBDrupal 7 was supposed to go end-of-life in June of this year when Drupal 9 was released, but owing to the coronavirus pandemic, Drupal maintainers have extended the Drupal 7 end-of-life to November 2021 due to the significant proportion of Drupal site owners who are still on that version. Tag1 Quo, Tag1's extended support service for Drupal, offers you peace of mind when it comes to receiving all of the important security updates that Drupal 7 Extended Support (D7ES) vendors maintain. But Ta...
Core Confidential #3.2 with Angie Byron (webchick) : The many faces of Drupal over 15 years - Pt. 2
November 09, 2020 13:00 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBDrupal is notorious for its "everyone has a voice" approach to open-source development, but it isn't easy to reach consensus across thousands of people with different backgrounds and opinions. In addition, Drupal has witnessed countless paradigm shifts in its lengthy history, both in the surrounding world of web development and in its internal workings. As Drupal has grown to power over two percent of the websites on the entire internet, many new workflows and governance structures have had ...
Drupal 7 extended support: What you need to know and how Tag1 can help - Tag1 TeamTalk #028.1
November 04, 2020 13:00 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MBDrupal has undergone a huge amount of innovation as of late, and the latest versions of Drupal portend an amazing future ahead for our community and ecosystem. But what happens when official community support for older versions, especially Drupal 7, ends? After all, Drupal 7 is among the most widely adopted versions of Drupal in the CMS's entire history, and it continues to have enduring staying power in the Drupal universe. Fortunately, Tag1 Consulting is among the vendors who will provide ...
Core Confidential #3.1 :: Core Confidential with Angie Byron (webchick) : Learning about 15 Years of Drupal Contribution - Pt. 1
November 02, 2020 13:00 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBOpen-source software development isn't easy. There are few people who know this more intimately well than Angie Byron (webchick), who is one of the best-known community leaders in the Drupal ecosystem and Senior Director, Product and Community Development at Acquia. Over the course of Angie's fifteen years in Drupal contribution, the content management system has undergone a series of disruptive and significant changes that have reinvented the community multiple times over. As cat-herder of ...
Documentation as code: Part 3: A Linting How To - The Vale Linter In Action (Demo) - Tag1 TeamTalk #027.3
October 26, 2020 12:00 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBIn part 3 of our Tag 1 Team talks about documentation as code: linting for prose, we demonstrate the Vale linter in action. This open source linter for prose is highly customizable, making it possible for writers with little coding experience or developers with little writing experience to start testing their work. In this Tag1 Team Talk, Michael Meyers (Managing Editor at Tag1) and Lynette Miles (Principal Technical Writer at Tag1) talk about integrating Vale into your workflow on the comm...
Documentation as code: Part 2: A Linting How To - What tools are out there and how do they work? - Tag1 TeamTalk #027.2
October 19, 2020 12:20 - 17 minutes - 16 MBLike developers, many technical writers have tool sets they use in the course of their work. These include IDEs, image editors, transcription software, version control, and so on. One well-known type of tool in the software world, but less so in the writing world is the linter. Software developers often consider their linters to be invaluable in catching or preventing errors, as well as enforcing defined stylistic guidelines before errors get out in front of the world.
Documentation as code: Part 1: A Linting How To - What, Why, and How? - Tag1 TeamTalk #027.1
October 13, 2020 13:00 - 12 minutes - 11.6 MBPART 1 - WHAT IS IT, WHY USE IT, HOW DOES IT WORK? Documentation is a critical part of any customer-facing product or service. Without it, your customers need hand holding, your support staff struggles to help your users, and your company spends money on unhappy customers instead of creating new products. One of the biggest challenges is creating quality documentation. Treating your documentation as part of your product leads the entire production team towards thinking of users first. Tre...
How to manage diverse remote teams : Tips for managing high functioning remote teams - Part 3 - Tag1 TeamTalk #025
September 16, 2020 13:00 - 17 minutes - 15.7 MBAs the coronavirus pandemic continues to render most workforces remote for the foreseeable future, crafting inclusive, high-functioning distributed teams isn't an easy matter. At Tag1, we've worked as a remote-first team since the beginning, thanks to deft project management like Janie Ledet's. These days more than ever, it's essential to have an experienced project manager on challenging projects, to manage remote teams with deep care, and to leverage best-of-class tools and best practices ...
Managing Diverse Remote Teams: Tools, Practices and Lessons Learned - Part 4 -Tag1 TeamTalk #026
September 16, 2020 13:00 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBIn the last of our 4 part series, Michael Meyers (Managing Director, Tag1 Consulting) and your host Preston So (Editor in Chief, Tag1 Consulting) had an opportunity to join Janie Ledet (Project Manager & Scrum Master, Tag1 Consulting) for miniseries about the human side of managing projects in agile software. We'll dive into the most important considerations when resourcing and conducting discovery for a new build, Janie's CARE philosophy for high-functioning remote teams, and best practic...
Agile at human scale: Managing diverse remote teams - Part 2 - Tag1 TeamTalk #024
September 08, 2020 13:00 - 11 minutes - 10.1 MBPART 2 - HAVING AN EXPERIENCED PM ON A PROJECT IS WORTH THE COST Among other things, the ongoing pandemic has ripped open the former fabric of our work lives, decentralizing and distributing our collaboration in newfound ways. Project management for agile software development teams is a mission that serves the dual purpose of efficiently producing good software and empowering the humans behind any product. As Project Manager and Scrum Master at Tag1 Consulting, and with over a decade of s...
Agile at human scale: Managing diverse remote teams - Part 1 - Tag1 TeamTalk #023
September 08, 2020 13:00 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBPART 1 - GETTING TO KNOW JANIE Among other things, the ongoing pandemic has ripped open the former fabric of our work lives, decentralizing and distributing our collaboration in newfound ways. Project management for agile software development teams is a mission that serves the dual purpose of efficiently producing good software and empowering the humans behind any product. As Project Manager and Scrum Master at Tag1 Consulting, and with over a decade of software development and program and ...
The inside story on Drupal.org's coming support for merge requests and issue forks - Tag1 TeamTalk #022
August 12, 2020 12:30 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBThroughout Drupal's history, contributors have rallied around Drupal.org as the single source of truth for both the code running Drupal and the infrastructure powering Drupal's issue queues, source control, and automated testing. As the Drupal Association continues on its journey to integrate GitLab features with Drupal.org, we're beginning to see the first glimpses of how Drupal contribution and issue management will evolve thanks to cutting-edge functionality like merge requests and issue ...
Modernizing Drupal’s UI and Improving Accessibility with The Olivero & Claro Themes - Tag1 TeamTalk - #021
August 06, 2020 13:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBLast month at DrupalCon Global, Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, announced that a major focus of Drupal 9 will be improving the user interface and user experience of the platform - for all personas. Two of the five D9 Strategic Initiatives have been dedicated to making this happen. The “New Front-End Theme Initiative” or user interface (UI) for Drupal, also known as the Olivero Theme, covers the end-user experience. The “Admin UI & JavaScript Modernisation Initiative”, also known as th...
False Economy of Low Cost Contractors - the common misconception that less expensive resources save you money - Tag1 Team Talk #020
July 22, 2020 13:00 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBToo often, organizations believe that contracting more affordable and less expensive resources for a project will lead to better savings. Here at Tag1 Consulting, we've in fact discovered that the opposite is true: Hiring cheaper often leads to worse results. Though it's often convenient to look at the hourly rate, or the provided quote for the project, this can often lead to less attention on questions and issues that should go into any project calculus. At Tag1, we often hear this come up ...
Enabling Declarative Components Everywhere: Drupal + Web Components Out of the Box - Tag1TeamTalk #019
July 01, 2020 12:00 - 50 minutes - 46.2 MBMany front-end technologies, especially React, now consider the notion of declarative components to be table stakes. Why haven't they arrived in environments like the Drupal CMS's own front end? Many native CMS presentation layers tend to obsolesce quickly and present a scattered or suboptimal developer experience, particularly against the backdrop of today's rapidly evolving front-end development workflows. But according to Fabian Franz, there is a solution that allows for that pleasant fro...
The story of Drupal 9's release from the inside with the Drupal Association - Tag1 TeamTalk #018
June 24, 2020 12:00 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBAfter four-and-a-half years of development, Drupal 9 was just released, a milestone in the evolution of the Drupal content management system. The Drupal Association has long played a critical role not only in supporting the advancement and releases of one of the world's largest and most active open-source software projects; it also contributes to the Drupal roadmap and drives its forward momentum in other important ways. In addition to maintenance releases for Drupal 7 and Drupal 8, the Drup...
Introduction to DrupalSpoons, a new developer workflow for Drupal contributors - Tag1 TeamTalk #017
June 22, 2020 13:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBMaintaining Drupal projects and managing Drupal modules can be challenging for even contributors who have unlimited time. For decades now, Drupal's ecosystem has cultivated a wide array of tools for contributors to create patches, report issues, collaborate on code, and perform continuous integration. But as many source control providers begin to release shiny new features like web IDEs and issue workspaces that aim to make open-source contributors' lives even easier, many are doubtlessly wo...