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Web Development Methodology
By xaby | June 6, 2007
No companies in the right mind would post negative news in the public, and we might just try to break this “taboo”.
We have had our fair share of difficulties managing projects, more often than not projects fail often because of communication breakdowns. Tiny slices of precious time fall through the cracks, creating micro sized schedule slips. Each slip impacts related tasks, which can quietly explode a simple one month effort into many. (quoted from taskhopper.com). And this is often compounded by long hours of work trying to rectify changes earlier, and it costs more time to fix something and get it right than to get it right - right from the start. This is especially true in web development.
Quoted from sitepoint:
“Commercial Web development has been around for more than 10 years. As an industry, this one’s still fairly young when you consider others that have been around for centuries. But relative youth as an industry is no excuse for not doing better.
Consider the number of sites that are rebuilt for clients every day, and you’ll likely agree that there’s still much poor quality work being done, which affects us all: it means that clients are more wary and less trustful of Web developers. Anything that tarnishes our industry can tarnish all of us individually.
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.
As the Development Manager for a team of 20, in the heady dotcom days, this was exactly the dilemma I faced. This article explores the issues that arose from our lack of a decent methodology, and how we as a team tried to resolve them. The result was the successful adaptation of an existing methodology for Web development.”
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