A list of great posts about how selecting a CMS and why you should not care so much about it
I want to write a post in my blog about “CMS selection” from the point of view of a vendor. So I have also collected some interesting advice as it could to help at least a little bit prospects writing RFPs and selecting a vendor the best way possible and adopting the best process possible.
An efficient process is – according to me – the best way to maximize the success so if you know other great articles, please let me know so that I could add them into this list:
Some do and don’t about Business issues:
CMS Selection: reveal budget in RFP
Finding the best vendor means treating bidders right
Bridgeline says focus on website ROI when selecting a CMS
Governance and other general issues:
Why IT should not run a CMS selection project
How to choose a web CMS
Selecting a Web CMS: the most common mistakes in RFP
Functional and technical issues
5 Criteria for selecting a global CMS
CMS selection criteria
Another CMS selection criteria
How to make a short list
Resourceful CMS selection
Selecting a CMS: how to build a short list
Some thoughts about the best process:
How to select a CMS
Intelligent use of spreadsheets in vendor selection
No scoring methodology for CMS selections
Evaluations vendor proposals – Kill your spreadsheets
5 Biggest mistakes in CMS selection
CMS selection: death to the features matrix
Requirements focus CMS selection
10 mistakes when selecting a CMS
Fifteen steps to select a CMS
The CMS selection process
Selecting a CMS: managing product demos
How to select a CMS
Does your CMS fit?
I have no doubts I forgot to list quite a few others but obviously, for years, recurrently, articles are published about “how to choose a CMS”. As a matter of fact, many projects are still choosing mistakenly a software (OK the implementation is a critical issue too but anyway, it is far from rare to see that a project did not chose the product it really needs).
Why advice are not enough and people still become angry about the CMS
I have written than making a successful CMS implementation project what not that easy, and again, I believe it looks important to take in consideration all the advice you can but at the end of the day, what really matters is to give to a skilled, experienced and motivated person – or team - the charges of choosing and implementing the software for the project.
From what I have seen so far, choosing the right CMS is not only about processes, methodologies or technology, it is before all about people.
