Choosing a CMS without falling back on 'that's what we already use'
Thiago Silveira Honorato defended an undergraduate thesis proposing a rational method to choose between Content Management Systems for different scenarios — reducing reliance on decisions based on team familiarity alone.
Brasília, 2015
Publishing content on the web is not just a coding matter: it is a tool-selection matter. For many teams, that selection still happens by inertia — they use whichever CMS the last hire happens to know. The undergraduate thesis defended by Thiago Silveira Honorato in 2015 at FCTE/UnB proposes a different path, under the advising of Prof. Ricardo Ajax Dias Kosloski : a structured selection method for Content Management Systems.
The work builds on a simple observation: requiring coding skills just to publish content raises barriers many initiatives — especially small ones without dedicated tech teams — cannot cross. CMSs exist precisely to lower that barrier. But the market offers dozens of alternatives with different trade-offs, and the decision itself becomes an additional headache.
Anchored in requirements engineering concerns, the author proposes criteria to guide the choice across different contexts — a practical contribution to a problem that usually receives only anecdotal answers. The work also touches themes of digital transformation for organizations that need to move their communication to the web without drowning in technical complexity.
The full text — written in Portuguese — is available at the UnB Undergraduate Theses Digital Library.
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