My employer is investing in me! This conference, in particular, really shows that PMC is on board with all of the new things I am introducing.
I’d been self-employed for basically all of my career until PMC, and assembling an expense report for reimbursement was novel and, um, great. While it might be a given that an employers to pay for a conference or two, this is new to me. PMC paid for my conference ticket, travel, and the workshop “Design Systems at Scale” with Nathan Curtis!!! Right after I found out about the new plan for Cantaloupe, I was heading to Clarity Conf in New York City, a conference all about design systems. The timing for all of this was so perfect. PMC decided to do the Cantaloupe redesign in house and I would be leading the front-end!!!! Now that’s a milestone!!! Clarity Conf While I’d already completed a lot to include – CSS architecture and naming conventions and a core webpack configuration – there was a lot I still needed to figure out, most notably: sharing markup between the theme and pattern library, storing centralized SCSS and JS (and determining what should be centralized), and how the heck to set that up for success on a project I wouldn’t be directly involved with. First of all, it was an exciting milestone to be included in this early conversation, and secondly, somewhat panic inducing. Over time, this has resulted in very “snowflake-y” front-ends that are difficult to work with.įor the Cantaloupe redesign RFP, I was asked to contribute requirements for front-end.
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Traditionally, these were mostly back-end requirements – PMC has a wealth of back-end “core tech”, or a host of WordPress plugins for sharing back-end and structural code – and the front-end implementation was left up to the agency. The technical requirements give the bidding agencies an relatively clear idea for the scope of the project. Once the designs are mostly complete, technical requirements are assembled in an RFP (Request for Proposal) that is then sent out to a handful of agencies PMC has worked with in the past. Right when I started, PMC was finishing up the redesign of with XWP, a leading WordPress VIP agency. Traditionally, PMC has brought on agencies to do large redesigns. I’m not sure if it’s okay to reveal the brand, so for the purposes of this blog post, we will call it Cantaloupe. One of PMC’s larger brands has had a redesign in the design and planning phase for quite some time. No time for a recap of last month’s installment of the Chronicles. I expected to have to do more convincing and pitching, but nope! PMC gets it.
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I’ve been meeting with the design team for a while now, and they have been on board, but working in a systems-oriented way is a big shift in mentality for how to handle engineering and the project management workflow.
It’s been an exciting process! And I must say, there has been much less friction than I anticipated in getting to step 3.
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