This post was originally published on The University of Bath's Web Services Blog.

It was a conference-tastic sprint week as Ross, Rich and Charlotte headed north for the Institutional Web Managers Workshop in Newcastle, and Iris, Miles and Dan went west to UXBristol.

We'll all be reaping the benefits of these trips over the next few months as we're regaled with the lessons learned at Show and Tell sessions, and, judging by the tweets afterwards, other universities are already buzzing with the contents of Ross' presentation on using techniques learned from startups to run digital delivery projects, and Rich's talk about how to COPE (Create Once Publish Everywhere).

Back in Bath however, work continued apace as Dan tested our proposed new digital typefaces, and Iris, Charlotte, Steve and Rich updated our all-important undergraduate and postgraduate induction content.

Dan took a big step forward in making www.bath.ac.uk accessible to all by getting a laptop full of helpful software from the Assistive Technologies group and spending some time teaching Dragon Naturally Speaking how to understand us! This was off the back of running some user research on the accessibility changes we made to our staff landing page in the previous sprint. Although the research revealed there was more work to be done, we've now got a better baseline for measuring our improvements.

As the Commonwealth Games are about to begin, Miles and Iris published a new feature on improving elite sports performance showing how our research has prompted changes by UK Athletics in how they train our national athletes.

Slightly closer to home, Kelvin, Liam and Miles finished our second sprint on developing a prototype CMS, and are preparing to field test it with some publishers around campus to get feedback on the approach to workflow and governance that we're intending to take.

The transition of our Professional Services sites into our (existing) CMS has been going well, with great feedback from the Data Protection team on the content for their new site; now we just need some final details so that we can publish it!

Justin also ran user story workshops with Imaging, Design & Print Services and Corporate Communications so we can better understand who their audiences are and how to structure the information on their sites so that it works a whole lot harder.

Last but by no means least, Rob Farr, a work experience student came in for the week and with Tom Trentham developed a new short URL management tool to help us create and edit URLs starting with http://go.bath.ac.uk. To make things interesting, they did this in Padrino, a Ruby framework neither of them had used before. This was a great experience for him and for us, and we look forward to welcoming more students next year!