“… DSVA doesn’t intend to literally rewrite 400,000 pages of content. “We’re really trying to shift the content around and focus on, obviously, the highest-priority content,” team lead Marcy Jacobs told FedScoop. This means taking a “veterans-first approach,” Johnston said, to what information gets rewritten or updated or consolidated and then transferred to the new backend content management system (CMS).”
“At the moment DSVA is a bottleneck to VA.gov growth, as the team has central control over what goes into the new CMS. But they recognize it can’t always be this way — if the new model is going to scale, other teams need to be empowered to use it too. The DSVA team is working on a handbook for this.”
“In addition to overhauling content and working on the new CMS, DSVA is continuing to build out…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA celebrates early success metrics from the VA.gov relaunch – By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier, February 19, 2019. FedScoop.




