Co-Speaker at DrupalGovCon 2025

Learn how the State of Georgia streamlined their QA and UAT process to ship code faster and catch bugs earlier.

In this session, myself and James Sansbury (former Architect at Lullabot, now owner of Tugboat) reveal how the State of Georgia transformed their software delivery lifecycle (SDLC) for GovHub, their Drupal-based CMS, that powers 80+ state agency websites.

The traditional staging-server bottleneck was creating problems for the State of Georgia: end-of-sprint QA crunches, delayed releases, team burnout, and expensive rework. The task of migrating 80+ websites to an upgraded platform with the existing workflow was infeasible. We’ll share how implementing a “shift left” approach with Tugboat transformed Georgia’s development workflow. By moving testing, QA, and stakeholder sign-off at the time of the pull request, the team distributed QA throughout the sprint and caught issues earlier in the development cycle. This shift improved the process for developers, QA testers, product managers, and stakeholders alike.