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Platform

One system, several audiences inside it.

A regional education board · Custom education management platform

A custom platform for managing educational resources and the people who use them, where administrators, staff and end users each need a different view of the same underlying material.

CustomNo off-the-shelf platform fit
Multi-roleSeparate views, one system
ProductionDeployed and in use

What was actually delivered.

Count them. This is the list that stops an engagement being priced as a single deliverable.

Delivered in partnership with Sharkbyte, Gordon Group and TAAG

  • 01Technical architecture
  • 02Data model design
  • 03Platform development
  • 04Role-based access
  • 05Resource management
  • 06Admin tooling
  • 07Third-party integrations
  • 08Deployment

Off-the-shelf assumed the wrong shape

Education platforms exist, but they assume a structure. When the organisation does not match that structure, you spend the next several years working around software you are paying for.

The architecture was the deliverable

Most of the value here sat in the data model, because that is the decision that is expensive to reverse once real content and real users are in the system.

Brought in for the part they could not build

Delivered with partners who handled design and the client relationship. I led architecture and development, which is the pattern whenever an agency reaches the edge of what it can deliver.