Website Redesign Kickoff Meeting Agenda
This is a practical guide to building a kickoff meeting agenda for a website redesign project — the agenda that aligns the team and stakeholders at project start, adapted to the realities of redesigning an existing website.
What a Kickoff Meeting Agenda is
A kickoff meeting agenda is the agenda that aligns the team and stakeholders at project start. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Kickoff Meeting. On a website redesign project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Website Redesign project
Website Redesign projects live or die on redesigning an existing website. A well-built kickoff meeting agenda gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how website redesign projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Purpose and objectives
- Scope and plan walkthrough
- Roles (RACI)
- Ways of working
- Next steps
Website Redesign-specific considerations
Tailor the kickoff meeting agenda to the risks that most often derail website redesign projects:
- Scope creep
- Content migration
- SEO preservation
Example
On a real website redesign project, the kickoff meeting agenda would be shaped by redesigning an existing website. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — scope creep, content migration, SEO preservation — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.