In 2008, when SeeD was born as a Drupal Agency and we decided to orient ourselves towards becoming Drupal Experts, site and web application development technologies were in the process of moving from infancy to childhood; Just 10 years before, in 1998, the first websites of the most daring companies were being launched, which with visionary managers took the initiative to have a presence in a new world, so new that even today almost 20 years later the mysteries of the Development languages (for most mortals), the magic of hosting and cloud services and the particularities of the digital medium, continue to be a nebula full of imponderables and challenges to the imagination. At one time, making a website was a task for designers who manipulated closed packages of web languages to which images and functions were adjusted to personalize the project to the information needs of companies.
Nowadays, with Drupal Development, things are done with a different logic; open, versatile and with the opportunity to comply with any imaginable business rule, whether informational, functional or integration with other tools of any digital ecosystem. To get to this point, Drupal has gone through a very complex process of evolution; from D5 to D8 the community https://www.drupal.org/
has seen the need to orient its philosophy towards one of standardization of good development practices by its "subjects"
Drupal development projects now go through a very careful process that allows us to visualize their scope by validating the Information Architecture, commercial proposals that are defined before clearly dimensioning the scope and managing the development of the projects with agile methodology, with solid and tangible partial deliveries, a detailed QA and a production launch, taking into account everything: integrations, performance and stability of the infrastructure.
We have learned over the years that the most important thing for a project to be considered successful is that the client's expectations are aligned with the developers' real possibilities, to meet deadlines, to be accurate in WYSIWYG development and to go into production without setbacks. We have also learned that our team must be aligned with our philosophy of fulfilling and bringing all projects to a successful conclusion, being consistent with the principles of "open source", doing permanent training and motivating our team to be loyal to the principles of giving back to the community and being "open-minded", which means being generous with knowledge https://www.drupal.org/seed-em
Drupal 8 comes with a new development paradigm that imposes new challenges and, above all, a re-learning process on the part of the team. We hope that in 10 years we will no longer be enjoying the childhood, but rather the adolescence of the digital world and that we will have a much clearer horizon for our business, which for now looks quite bright due to the evolution that this new world is offering to brands, businesses and organizations around the world.
We will continue to develop in Drupal, supporting our clients in their web development needs and giving our best to always evolve with Drupal.