| Links: Project Management Simplified
Project management tools and techniques were created to introduce order, but maintaining such systems often soaks up a lot of time. For all but the largest, most complicated Web projects, elaborate organizational systems are overkill. Often, these distract the project manager and the team from what's really important to the project's success.
After years of participating in and managing all kinds of assignments, we've prepared three core principles that apply to most Web projects. These techniques are highly adaptable and have helped us focus on what's really vital to the success of our projects.
Clicks: 68 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us 13 common objections against user requirements analysis, and why you should not believe them
Why user experience disasters happen at the start of web projects explains that before designing an interactive solution, you have to understand the problem: who are the future users, what are their current practices and what are their needs? This article lists 13 common objections against user requirements analysis and why you should not believe them.
Clicks: 41 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Why user experience disasters happen at the start of web projects explains that before designing an interactive solution, you have to understand the problem: who are the future users, what are their current practices and what are their needs? This article lists 13 common objections against user requirements analysis and why you should not believe them.&tags=Artikelen" title="Add to del.icio.us">Voeg to aan del.icio.us A Project Management Glossary
On most web projects, the Project Managers have a large part to play in what work you'll have to do, when you'll have to do it by, and whether you get paid. Because of this, it's useful to understand their language, and even to use it on occasion. Here's a guide to the essential terminology you'll need to gain and maintain credibility. [Evolt 08/09/2001]
Clicks: 53 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us A redesign recipe for tough times
Finding the resources for a redesign takes more work than it used to, though. Increasing economic gloom and well-justified scepticism about IT spending are squeezing site budgets. Even at the wealthiest sites, managers are having to sub-let the in-house massage facilities to insolvency specialists just to fund a few more fancy graphics. How do you redesign in times like these? [Shorewalker.com]
Clicks: 11 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Big team, big problems?
The picture isn't pretty: duplicating efforts, overwriting each other's work, and workplace discontent are only three of the problems that can arise from poor planning.
Clicks: 30 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Cheaper Over Better: Why Web Clients Settle for Less
Web developers and designers who only care about adding to their client list are just as dangerous as the clients who hire them. Sometimes you’ve got to take one for the team and sacrifice a little time, effort, and money in order to keep the web moving in a forward direction. [Alistapart 15/07/2003]
Clicks: 12 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Critical Thinking in Web and Interface Design
The most common failure of development projects is the inability to correctly define the problem. If the goal is vague, it's impossible to know whether it's been solved it or not. And even if the goal is well defined, it may be the wrong goal for the situation in which the design will be used. A well-built machine gun won't help you repair a flat tire. So these two kinds of failure, vague goals and the wrong goals, have nothing to do with technical acumen. If you can't prevent these kinds of failures, even the best developers or designers in the world will not succeed. You may write great code or create wonderful designs, but if you don't solve the right problem, your efforts are wasted. [UIWEB 05/2001]
Clicks: 19 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Evolving the Team
To find out more about what Web teams have learned over the years, Web Techniques spoke with five companies in different industries. With technology adoption leveling off and layoffs becoming a necessity for most businesses, the teams we met with are all looking more closely at their internal structure and processes. While most have made significant changes as a result of the market, some have not changed at all, finding that their original plans have carried them through the best and worst of times. [Webtechniques 01/2002]
Clicks: 23 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Groundwork for Project Success
This article outlines a set of tools that will put you in a leadership position, make sure your projects meet business goals, increase the support for your work, and, in the end, improve your credibility. [Webtechniques 01/2002]
Clicks: 31 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Let me write that down: the genius of documentation
That's why you document: because these questions need answers, and coders shouldn't have to invent third-best answers in the middle of writing some complex piece of application logic. Document well, and the people who code and build the pages of your site can get on with their work with the least possible fuss. And in the process, you hope, turn your documentation into a ragged sheaf of well-used pages. [Shorewalker 2001]
Clicks: 20 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Let your business model be your guide
Web sites exist for different reasons. Some aim to sell products or services online or offline, some aim to sell ads, and some aim simply to deliver information. The end goal of a site, or section thereof, is something that the Web developer needs to keep in mind at every single step of the way. Many Web developers tend to think in terms of "What cool features can I use on this site?" rather than thinking about what these features were intended to accomplish. But the best designers make their decisions with the site objectives firmly in mind, during every aspect of site build and maintenance. Page design, site layout, even choosing a hosting service - the right and wrong way to do all these things depends on your business model.
Clicks: 23 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Project Management Issues to Consider
This article is about the under-discussed use and misuse of security technology, use and misuse of statistics software, and use and misuse of people in projects that use project management applications. These matters can be at the heart of why some projects fail, just as easily as those other matters more commonly examined in palimpsests on the art of project management. [developer.com]
Clicks: 10 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Projectmanagement: waar is dat goed voor?
Goed projectmanagement levert veel op, juist voor de klant, namelijk een site die op tijd en binnen budget wordt opgeleverd, met de kwaliteit die aan het begin van het traject is afgesproken. En of je nou met veertig man aan een website werkt of in je eentje: er zal altijd tijd gestoken moeten worden in het soepel laten verlopen van het proces. Plannen, planningen bijhouden en communiceren over de voortgang zijn belangrijke taken van de projectmanager en zonder deze activiteiten verloopt geen project zoals het hoort. [Naarvoren 03/07/2002]
Clicks: 68 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Questions to consider
Questions to consider when writing a
Request for Proposal for Website Design Services.
Clicks: 24 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Real Life Project Management: Managing the Project Scope
How many of your projects fail? Can you blame that failure on lack of scope control, poorly defined requirements, or stakeholders who think your project is a la carte? If so, you need real-world scope management, as discussed by project management expert Joseph Phillips. [informit.com 28/01/2005]
Clicks: 20 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Scope creep
Maybe what we need is a little heresy. Try this: scope creep is not only inevitable; it’s natural. As with other natural forces, when we resist it, it seems evil to us. It thwarts us, but scope creep is no more evil than gravity. Scope creep is the pejorative name we give to the natural process by which clients discover what they really want. [Alistapart 20/09/2002]
Clicks: 27 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Stop scope creep before it starts
Scope creep is the expansion of a project beyond its original objectives. If you haven’t experienced it yet, it is just a matter of time because nearly every IT project falls victim to it. In “Seven steps for avoiding scope creep,” we looked at some ways to try to manage this phenomenon. Now it’s time to look at four sources of scope creep and discuss ways you can counter their negative influence on your projects. [Builder.com 20/03/2002]
Clicks: 16 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Successful Web Development Methodologies
Having tried, trusted and standardised approach to Web development would go a long way to helping avoid the mistakes we all see over and over again. We need a Web methodology. However, finding a methodology that seems suited to Web development is not easy; making it work in the real world is even harder. [Sitpoint 13/05/2005]
Clicks: 10 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Teaching Web Development
Teaching Web development is a challenge, but it is extremely rewarding to both instructor and student. It's one of the few times where a teacher can actually see what a student has learned, and give feedback about the work. There are certainly stumbling blocks to overcome in learning about Web development, but with consistent effort, anyone can master the basics of building a Web site. Unfortunately, explaining certain basic concepts to someone who does not understand all of the idiosyncrasies of the Internet can be one of the toughest challenges.
Clicks: 11 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Testin, 1,2,3
'Testing is a critical part of the web development process. You need to plan carefully how you will integrate it into your schedule, who will be doing the testing, and how the results will be delivered.'
Clicks: 12 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us The role of project managers in interface design
This is a post I made to the chi-web public dlist a few years ago. It's surfaced here to help answer a common question I get: how do you integrate design into a development team? It's a good description of the role that project managers can play in the design and engineering process. [UIWEB]
Clicks: 10 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Them changes: Maintaining sanity when clients change spec
You need to manage product change. The alternatives are simply too hairy. I recommend starting early – before the contract is even signed. That contract, or an accompanying document, will identify deadlines, costs, and number of resources.
These details are an important benchmark for your project. This is what you promised to do, and these are the resources you’ve allocated to do those tasks. If you look closely, you’ll see that no one on your resource list is Superman.
Clicks: 11 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Time Management: The Pickle Jar Theory
I strongly encourage everyone to use at least one Time Management System. It empowers you to actually do instead of scurrying about without any goals in sight. Whether you choose this particular system or not, remember: eat the pickles before you empty the jar, they are so good! [Alistapart 22/06/2003]
Clicks: 12 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Top Ten Mistakes of Web Management
Clicks: 23 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Under the Gun
There's no need to go postal. You can work longer or work smarter. Web Developer® is here with tips that work from those who've managed to work smarter. Whatever the boss needs, there's no time to waste, so here's some advice from top Webmasters. [Webdeveloper 2000]
Clicks: 9 | Beoordeling: 0.00 | Stemmen: 0 | Beoordeel |
Schrijf een recensie | Voeg to aan del.icio.us Pagina's:
1 2 [>>] | 
