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1. Article

   September 15, 2026

   Organizational Debt and the Hidden Costs of State Digital Leadership Change

   … Andrew Berry Andrew Berry is an architect and developer who works at the intersection of … Modernization budgets get misspent rediscovering what the last team already knew The reconstruction …

2. Article

   August 20, 2026

   Will Your Digital Platform Outlast Your Administration?

   … Brenna Love Brenna Love is a technical project manager with over 15 years of … but isn't as widely discussed. For new teams, it might mean an integration breaks after a routine update, or no one can safely make changes because they do not know what will be affected. For the public, it can mean a form …

3. Article

   July 8, 2026

   Why State Government Needs Platform Thinking, Not Project Thinking

   … Ellie Fanning Ellie is the VP of Marketing at Lullabot. … needs, whether it's launching a new website, replacing an aging application portal, migrating content, or rolling … approach makes sense. The challenge, though, is what happens over time. When every initiative is treated as …

4. Article

   June 10, 2026

   From Lando to DDEV: Replacing Custom Shell Scripts with Drainpipe

   … to run first, then debugging the one that fails because of an environment assumption that was never documented. … scripts with  Drainpipe . This article covers what drove that decision, how we approached the migration, … with inherited Lando setups Lando works. That is not the issue. However, as with any long-term setup, it …

5. Case study

   June 2, 2026

   VINCI Highways

   … VINCI Highways is a leading international roadway concessionaire and … Our website needed to be geared toward owners with an increasing need for highway development. In recent years, … content hierarchy across key pages Prioritized what users need to see first vs. explore deeper …

6. Article

   May 21, 2026

   Why Architecture Over Enforcement Allows Small Teams to Scale Governance

   … as uploading PDFs where web pages should be. The result is an inconsistent, often inaccessible experience for the … difficult Content tooling and training that covers what the platform can't Dashboards that surface …

7. Bio

   May 6, 2026

   Bob McDiarmid

   Bob McDiarmid Senior Technical Project Manager … Palo Alto, CA Bob is a Senior Technical Project Manager who's known for … his belief that how work gets done matters just as much as what gets delivered. Before joining Lullabot, Bob's …

8. Article

   April 28, 2026

   Governance Without Authority: How to Align Agencies Across a Statewide Digital Platform

   … constituents really need. This challenge is familiar to anyone in state digital leadership: you're … Many digital services teams fall into the trap of becoming what agencies call "brand police," issuing top-down … many digital services teams underinvest in it. An effective communication infrastructure looks something …

9. Section

   April 14, 2026

   Digital Ecosystem Maturity Assessment

   … get added. Teams adopt different tools. Standards drift. What starts as manageable quickly becomes fragmented, harder … for whatever comes next, including what to put in an RFP. … What it is …

10. Article

    April 15, 2026

    You Can’t Govern What You Can’t See: Visibility Challenges with State Government Websites

    You Can’t Govern What You Can’t See: Visibility Challenges with State … Andrew Berry Andrew Berry is an architect and developer who works at the intersection of …