To start an eZ publish project means getting an understanding of what the client really wants. Basically, you need to draft a project brief. Although a project brief should be a straightforward document of only a few pages, it can be difficult to get it right.
A project brief contains the following elements:
Organizational and Project Purpose
Project Objectives
Target Market
The first thing to capture is what the purpose of the organization is. This is not for your benefit or the organization's but rather for the people working on the project that will be designing and developing the solution. The more they understand the organization, the better they will be able to design solutions.
The questions to ask are:
What is the organization about?
What do they do?
What do they hope to achieve?
The final question here is very important; expectations are what can cause projects to fail. Unless they are stated and captured, they may only surface later in the project when...