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Summary: Good stuff
Review: I've been working in the web field since 1995 and have been involved with all sizes and shapes of web projects. As someone who is currently working in the web services business, this book was an extremely useful tool for my team as we continually refine and advance our team processes and procedures. If you have experience with project management there is still more you can learn from this book. If you are new to web project management, this is a great book to build a solid foundation from.
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Summary: Learn web project practice.
Review: In fact, I found that market lacks such kind of book, of course, immersing into technical training and knowledge is important. However, how can we coordinate the project with several people? How to deal with the clients? What kind of contingency planning and preparation do you need for the client and other parties? This book, at least, gives you a rough idea how to deal with some project handling. In the past, project handling is such a kind of management skill, however, the author agrees that working in advertisement and IT industries are perfectly merits as being a web-tech project manager, they need a quick thought and fast response, especially those have technical knowledge. Sometimes, some managerial guys do not understand the feasability and difficulty on the implementation indeed...^_^. For this book,it converys a message how to conduct web project management in a concise way. 1) How to deal with your members? Their skillsets? 2) How to negotiate with your clients?(The most important point is that how can you "fix" the project scope/requirement instead of let it extending continuously. Many projects become endless due to their contract has not been explicitly signed and the requirement is not completedly collected. Of course, it needs changes but author suggests us to put the extra stuff to next phrase. REMEMBER: target on deadline and cost) 3) How to break down your tasks? 4) How to convey appropriate documents/contracts/schedules? Arrr...there are some examples to demostrate the project management techniques as well, to show whether it is good or not. A comprehensive web project management guide for me..but in fact, when I go to www.brainbench.com to take the project manager exam, I think I need to dig into more theories for project management, then I intend to buy a more serious management book instead. For me, I learn a lot from this book and it helps me how to understand some management routines. Of course, there are still many unexpected events during the project cycles. As the book mention and suggest... Being a project manager, you need to be... 1) Get a cool-headed mind. 2) Be humorous 3) Well-Organised 4) Good Communication with others. Those sentences are still on my mind.
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Summary: A concise and essential book
Review: In light of the critical importance of teamwork in Web development, getting this book should be a no-brainer. If you want your team to work together better -- to save money, time, and avoid the headaches that so often riddle the Web development process -- you'll find no wiser guide than Jessica Burdman. A concise and essential book.
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Summary: Collaborative Web Development was a pleasure to read.
Review: It is well structured with sections that identify problems and then a follow up with solutions and useful toolsthat will enable project managers to avoid potential pitfalls. Quality Assurance is by far the most overlooked aspect of web development. Collaborative Web Development provides a very thorough overview of the different aspects that are necessary steps of Quality Assurance testing. The profiles are very compelling as they provide a human face and voice to many of the aspects within the book. The book is honest, thorough and well structured."
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Summary: 4 stars with some reservations...
Review: It took me a while to decide whether to give this book three stars or four. In the end I decided on four stars but with some reservations. Basically this book provides a high level description of the Web development process. It does a good job of enumerating the tasks (managerial and technical) that you will have to complete if you want to ship a quality Web site on time and within budget. However, it does not offer much advice with respect to how you should go about performing these tasks. As a result I feel that this book won't be as useful in practice as the back-cover notes or some other reviewers have suggested.
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Summary: Recommended for any Web Design & Consulting Business!
Review: Jessica Burdman has written Collaborative Web Development to assist companies to establish a team concept of Web development. She offers a sound blueprint for Web development that will allow a number of creative individuals to make their own contributions and for companies to better manage every stage of development from beginning to end. Burdman lays down a solid foundation for establishing a serious Web development team. She identifies key team members and their individual responsibilities, she will assist project managers to break down and assign specific project responsibilities, and she will help companies to better manage their people and business policies. Burdman offers noteworthy advice on handling client matters such as payments, their involvement in the Website design process, dealing with roadblocks, thorny issues, and meeting deadlines. A central theme emphasized throughout the book is good communication at all levels of development. Burdman will assist companies large and small to work through the many issues they will face, including many that will stretch their patience thin. The accompanying CD contains a number of helpful demoware development programs and other essential tools to meet a variety of Web development needs. Highly recommended for any Web design and consulting business environment!
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Summary: This book really doesn't tell you much of anything.
Review: Maybe this book had some good information in it during the early 90's when all of this stuff was new but now this book doesn't offer anything to anyone. All of the technical stuff is very old and the focus is on very simple stuff like HTML page directories and images while, the team structure chapters are conflicting seem to be written by someone who doesn't really understand the development process, and the project scenarios have little to no value.
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Summary: Focus on Managing a Web Team
Review: My search for books on Managing a Web Team turned up only two books, this one and "Web Site Engineering". Since this one arrived first, I read it first. It is a quick, easy read, and has some valuable information in it that is not easily found elsewhere, even on the web. Few web books address dealing with the client, the care and feeding of the web team, and quality assurance, but this one does. Topics that I would have liked to have seen covered in more detail are configuration managment, the design process, and the development environment.
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Summary: This is the first book that I have seen that focuses on the
Review: One of the strongest aspects of this book is the profiles and case studies.I also like the way the book relates real life experiences and sample scenarios, to the content. I think this book would be quite competitive in today's market. This is the first book that I have seen that focuses on the project management side of the web development business. It has people and project emphasis that I like."
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Summary: This is a very good overview of the team-based web developme
Review: Particularly considering the wide variation this can take I think this book does an excellent job of describing theissues and problems that need to be dealt with for a web team leader. I thought the the Case Studies were particularly well done and the profiles were generally quite interesting also. I think this will be a competitive book. As web projects get larger and more complex team building and management will become more important. This book is well aimed at this growing market. I have actually found the book to be quite useful as I've reviewed it, I am personally involved in a start-up large scaledevelopment project and some of the issues raised and profiles have been very instructive.
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