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Web Method

Web Method. April 2001 Al Futrell from Web Project Management. Point about having a Defined Project Method. Client Confidence You look like you know what you are doing Serious You look like you know what you are doing For more reasons, see Page 37. Eight Stages of Development.

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Web Method

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  1. Web Method April 2001 Al Futrell from Web Project Management

  2. Point about having a Defined Project Method • Client Confidence • You look like you know what you are doing • Serious • You look like you know what you are doing • For more reasons, see Page 37

  3. Eight Stages of Development • Project Clarification • Solution Definition • Project Specification • Content • Design and Construction • Testing, Launch, and Handover • Maintenance • Review and Evaluation

  4. Four Phases of Development • Preproduction • Project Clarification • Solution Definition • Project Specification • Production • Content • Design and Construction • Testing, Launch, and Handover • Maintenance • Evaluation See Page 47 for a detailed schematic

  5. Preproduction • Clients don’t want to spend money on preproduction • ….and often they don’t! • Planning seems slow, but it speeds up delivery time • A key gambit is to use a few images to make it look like something is getting done

  6. Team Workflow Through Project Stages

  7. Team Workflow #2

  8. Project Clarification This is about understanding the client’s goals and about establishing a resource context within which to work. Deliverables Project Brief Budget, schedule, and resource plan outline Full budget, schedule, and resource plan

  9. Project Clarification • Get a high-level sponsor • Maximizes speed of decision making • Assures some type of budget control

  10. Discovery(part of clarification) • Perform a knowledge and resource audit • Establish trust • Upgrade the project • Show the client you are a guru • Realize the client knows his/her businesss better than you do • Make contacts, and then make more contacts

  11. Enlighten the Client • Empowering • Educate the client • Allow the client to see things your way

  12. Creative Dimensions • Get client guidelines • Logo, colors, fonts, etc. • Get “stuff” from the client • Visual stuff in this phase • Create a communications brief for creative team

  13. Technical Dimension • Web skills • Types of hardware • Types of software • Basic infrastructure

  14. Content Dimension • Content is the hardest thing to get • Know the format • Insist on getting it on time • Go beyond brochure-ware • You never have enough

  15. Project Brief • Documents what you have done so far • Points toward what is needed next • Include a budget • Include a schedule • Pad any quotations….

  16. Remember • Nobody knows what you budget is or was. They judge the web site/intranet on what it looks like in its final form – irrespective on what you did to get it there….

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