Collaborative Web development: strategies and best practices for web teams

✍ Scribed by Burdman, Jessica

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In Collaborative Web Development, author Jessica Burdman shares the successful secrets of managing a web project, including collaboration, communication, and budgeting. The book provides many case studies of both successful and unsuccessful Web sites, and will help web-project managers pick and manage their web teams so they can sell their projects and needs to executive managers. The ultimate goal of this book is to make a "level playing ground," offering a similar vocabulary for developers, marketing people, and IT managers, so everyone is "bought in" to the Web project.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 16
Chapter 1 The Project......Page 22
Key Differences among Web, Advertising, and Software Project Management......Page 23
What Skills Do You Need?......Page 26
Write a Project Mission Statement......Page 27
Identify Objectives......Page 28
Identify Your Targeted Users......Page 29
Determine the Scope......Page 31
Assumptions for Budgeting......Page 37
Tools......Page 38
References......Page 39
More Preliminary Planning Issues......Page 40
Summary......Page 42
Interview: Getting Your Arms around the Project......Page 43
Chapter 2 The Team......Page 46
Evolution of the Web Team......Page 47
Roles and Responsibilities......Page 48
Identifying Necessary Skills......Page 53
Building a Team......Page 54
Multiple Projects......Page 55
Cross-Functional Teams......Page 59
Virtual Management......Page 60
Outsourcing or Working with Vendors......Page 61
Sorting Apples and Oranges......Page 62
Summary......Page 63
Interview: Bringing in the Special Teams......Page 65
Chapter 3 Planning and Process Development......Page 68
Getting to Know Your Audience......Page 69
Defining Development Stages and Strategies......Page 71
Writing the Creative Brief......Page 73
Brainstorming......Page 74
Creating the Concept......Page 75
Site Architecture and Schematics......Page 77
Technical Planning......Page 79
Identifying Technical Infrastructure......Page 80
Defining Technical Development Requirements......Page 81
Planning for Maintenance and Growth......Page 82
Production Planning......Page 83
Production Guide......Page 84
Production Infrastructure......Page 85
Planning for Change......Page 87
Effective Meetings and Reviews......Page 88
Summary......Page 89
Interview: Managing Change in the Web Development Environment......Page 90
Communication Breakdown: Why?......Page 96
Common Causes......Page 97
Evaluate the Way Your Team Communicates......Page 99
Tools, Standards, and Methods......Page 100
Leading Effective Meetings......Page 106
Summary......Page 108
Interview: Developing Standards of Communication for Web Teams......Page 109
Chapter 5 The Client......Page 114
Differences between Internal and External Clients......Page 115
Communicating Your Process to Your Client......Page 116
Getting "Buy-in"......Page 118
Building Communication into the Budget......Page 119
Communication throughout the Project......Page 120
Legal Communications......Page 121
Project Communications......Page 122
When to Hand the Project Back......Page 125
Handling Maintenance Requests......Page 126
Summary......Page 127
Interview: Effective Client Management......Page 128
Up-Front Challenges......Page 132
Do You Have an "Internet" Department?......Page 133
Getting to Know Your Audience......Page 134
Corporate Politics......Page 135
Quality Issues......Page 136
Making the Site Searchable......Page 137
The Web Team......Page 139
The Corporate Publishing Process......Page 141
The Subsite: Risks and Rewards......Page 144
Allowing Creativity......Page 145
Summary......Page 147
Interview: Managing a Large-Scale Content Site......Page 149
Quality Assurance: Some General Principles......Page 154
What Is Unique about Testing Web Sites?......Page 155
The Promised Environment......Page 157
The Role of Testing in Quality Assurance......Page 159
The Role of the Specification for Black-Box or Requirements-based Testing......Page 160
A Successful Test Plan......Page 163
QA and Testers Shake out the Bugs......Page 167
Summary......Page 171
Interview: Quality Assurance for Web Applications......Page 172
Emerging Technologies and Changing Needs......Page 174
The Web as Information Store......Page 175
Portable Web: Convenience and Access......Page 181
Tools......Page 182
Preparing for Change......Page 183
Changes in the Process......Page 185
Summary......Page 189
Interview: Web Sites of the Future......Page 191
Stay Up to Date......Page 200
The Care and Grooming of Your Team......Page 201
Detecting Weakness in a Team......Page 202
Training......Page 203
Classes......Page 204
Heading toward Efficiency......Page 206
Summary......Page 207
Chapter 10 Case Studies......Page 208
Objectives arid Metrics -......Page 209
Red Sky Interactive......Page 210
Background and Planning......Page 211
The Process......Page 213
Creative Process......Page 214
The Results......Page 215
The Team......Page 216
The Process......Page 217
Key Obstacles......Page 219
Results......Page 220
The Team......Page 221
The Process......Page 222
Analyze the Product......Page 223
Determine the Look and Feel......Page 224
Test and Deploy......Page 225
Obstacles Overcome......Page 226
Results......Page 227
The Team......Page 228
The Solution......Page 230
Results......Page 231
The Team......Page 233
The Process......Page 234
Key Obstacles and Project Risks......Page 236
Conclusion......Page 237
Appendix A: CD-ROM Index......Page 238
Project Management Tools......Page 240
Web Design Programs......Page 241
HTML Text Editors......Page 243
Image Programs......Page 244
Software Testing Tools......Page 246
HTML Conversion Programs......Page 247
Multimedia and Animation Programs......Page 249
Java Development Tools......Page 251
Shareware Programs......Page 252
Hardware Guide......Page 253
B......Page 262
C......Page 263
F......Page 264
K......Page 265
M......Page 266
P......Page 267
Q......Page 268
S......Page 269
T......Page 270
U......Page 271
XYZ......Page 272