Multi-Site CMS Rollout. @multi-site-cms

Organizations running several brands, markets, or regional sites on disconnected CMS instances pay for it continuously: every improvement rebuilt per site, no consistent governance, and site number seven launched by copying site three's problems. The Multi-Site CMS Rollout builds the shared foundation instead — one architecture with shared content models and components, clear rules for what is global versus local, and a repeatable path for launching the next site.

The finish state is the platform live with the first sites on it: shared components rolling out improvements to every site at once, local teams editing what they own and nothing they do not, and a documented site-launch playbook that turns each new brand or market into configuration work rather than a project.

Multi-Site Architecture

Platform and tenancy design — shared models, per-site configuration, domains, and environments — on your chosen CMS, sized for the site portfolio you actually plan.

Shared Component Library

A component and template library used by every site, with brand theming as configuration — so design and functionality improvements ship portfolio-wide.

Governance & Permissions Model

Explicit global-versus-local ownership rules, roles and permissions per site and team, and workflow that lets central teams govern without becoming a bottleneck.

First-Sites Rollout

The initial sites — typically two or three — migrated or launched on the platform, proving the architecture and producing the reusable launch playbook.

1. Scope — Map the site portfolio, brand variance, and team structure; fix the architecture, governance rules, and first-site set.
2. Build — Build the platform and component library, then launch the first sites on it with their local teams involved.
3. Handover — Hand over the launch playbook, governance documentation, and training for central and local editors.

The Multi-Site CMS Rollout is a menu item on the Scrums.com delivery catalog, available at every plan tier. Add it to your plan backlog and your delivery team schedules it like any other item — scoped, tracked, and reported through the SEOP. See Delivery Plan Tiers.

How different can individual sites be?

The architecture sets that dial deliberately: theming and local content vary freely; structure and components stay shared. Scoping fixes the line with your brand teams — too much freedom recreates the disconnected-sites problem, too little and local teams route around the platform.

What about languages and markets?

Multi-market structure — locales, market-specific content, and fallbacks — is part of the architecture where scoped. Deep translation workflow on an existing site is its own item: the Website Localization Upgrade.

How do remaining sites get onto the platform?

Via the launch playbook, by your team or as follow-on menu items. The first-sites rollout exists precisely to prove the playbook before the long tail follows.