Web Development and Design

What is an Agile Process?

• small, highly motivated project teams

• informal methods

• early incremental delivery of the WebApp

• minimal work products

• customer satisfaction

Why Agility?

• Business strategies and rules change rapidly

• Management demands near-instantaneous responsiveness

• Stakeholders often don’t understand the consequences of the Web

• An agile approach helps cope with fluidity and uncertainty

Underlying Agility Principles

• Satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software

• Welcome changing requirements

• Build projects around motivated people

• Business people and developers must work together daily

• Deliver working software increments frequently

What is a WebE Framework?

• A set of activities performed for every Web engineering project

• Each framework activity is composed of a set of actions

• A set of umbrella activities

• Actions encompass work tasks, work products, quality assurance points, and project milestones

WebEProcess Activities & Actions

The WebE Framework: Activities

• Communication

• Planning

• Modeling

• Construction

• Deployment

The WebEProcess

• The process must be agile and adaptable

• Incremental delivery allows you to manage change

Incremental Delivery

WebEProcess: Communication

• Understand the problem before you begin to solve it

• Formulate

• Elicitate

• Negotiate

Who Should You Communicate With?

• Business managers

• Internal and external customers

• End users

• Product managers

• Marketing people