Insights into our work: TYPO3 upgrades, engineering practices and how we work with agencies.
Many of the technical challenges of a TYPO3 upgrade can be mastered with experience, tools and a structured process. There is one area, however, where even the best preparation cannot provide a clear-cut answer: the continued evolution of third-party extensions.
A fixed price for a major TYPO3 upgrade sounds contradictory at first. After all, the appeal of a time-and-material project lies precisely in the ability to handle unknown risks flexibly. So why do we still deliberately choose a fixed price in many projects? The answer has surprisingly little to do with costing and remarkably much to do with engineering.
Many companies invest in better developers. We additionally invest in better processes. Both matter, but in our experience lasting quality only emerges when experience no longer accumulates merely in the minds of individual developers, but becomes part of the engineering process step by step.
The larger an upgrade becomes, the more important the question of how to organise the process. After more than 150 TYPO3 upgrades, we have come to believe that many projects become needlessly complicated because they follow TYPO3's upgrade path rather than the architecture of the target system.
