Discover Massage Australia: A Live, Functional, Managed & Supported Fully Integrated eLearning Platform
Our job was to ensure Discover Massage were set up for as little disruption to their BAU as possible. Integrating software for the Discover Massage ecommerce business successfully needed to include a robust strategy and precise planning, plus collaboration with digital marketing agencies and software suppliers.
The Brief
Discover Massage approached COG Digital with a brief to deliver the integration of 3rd party software via an eLearning software into a new WordPress website.
The brief from Discover Massage to COG went much deeper than building a simple website. The key to project success would not only be to integrate software that would be governed by a Project Charter, Change Control Documentation and User Acceptance Test Plan, but to manage development progress via Git and Jira.
Remote learning software needs careful attention to hosting provisions, security management and also front end UX/UI/CX considerations to ensure the technology and softwares are able to perform and deliver a viable and scalable user experience.
Our job was to ensure Discover Massage were set up for as little disruption to their BAU as possible. Integrating software for the Discover Massage ecommerce business successfully needed to include a robust strategy and precise planning, plus collaboration with digital marketing agencies and software suppliers.
The Client
Since 1997, Discover Massage has been teaching students to become thorough, confident massage therapists. Discover Massage Australia is oldest and most experienced ‘hands on’ training school in Australia. They’ve been in the business since 1997, and over that time they’ve helped thousands of graduates build their own successful careers in massage.
Discover Massage trainers are experienced professionals and they’ll show you their unique massage systems in a way that you can remember and confidently use on your own clients. With courses for all levels held regularly across Australia, it’s easy to start your own career in massage.
The COG Digital Soltution
The approach to the project focused on ensuring all teams involved could work together in unison and remain efficient in communication during the process.
COG Digital managed the project as an Agile software development project, this is a type of development methodology that anticipates the need for flexibility and applies a level of pragmatism to the delivery of the finished product. The goal was to build digital assets that would enable the Discover Massage brand to scale up it’s product and support the delivery of any volume of customers.
Agile is an iterative approach to project management and software development that helps teams deliver value to their customers faster and with fewer headaches. Instead of betting everything on a “big bang” launch, an agile team delivers work in small, but consumable, increments.
With the project governed by a Project Charter, Change Control Documentation and User Acceptance Test Plan from the partner software product supplier, COG Digital needed to manage development progress via Git and Jira.
The brief included a Service Level Agreement which included version control and API aftercare. And also managing the third party extensions required by the brand to perform at a premium.
The Results
Project Success! A live, functional, managed and supported fully integrated eLearning platform for the Discover Massage business.
Discover Massage now has supported and maintained WordPress platform that integrates an eLearning platform that is integrated with the eCommerce functionality .
The software integration project included UAT (User Acceptance Testing) from staging environment and content migration. Hosting provision for test, Staging and Production environments on a LAMP stack that includes a CDN and redundancy back ups.