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Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects

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Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects

Overview of this book

open-source CMS (content management system) and development framework with functionality for web publishing, intranets, e-commerce, extranets, and web portals. In this book, Martin Bauer of designit.com.au an eZ publish Silver partner, teaches you how to successfully manage and implement an eZ publish web content management project. He shows you how to produce quality results in a repeatable manner with the minimum of effort, and end up with eZ publish solutions that will delight your clients. The book presents strategies, best practices, and techniques for all steps of your eZ publish project, starting from client requirements, through planning, information architecture and content modeling, design considerations, and right up to deployment, client training, maintenance, support, and upgrades.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Summary


In planning a project there are many factors to consider. What's most important is what's the priority of your client, what their expectations are, and managing the project to that expectation. E.g. if they are flexible on timing, you can take a more relaxed approach to deadlines; however, if you have a fixed deadline, every day late will affect the project and you have to be far more diligent. The key here is to understand what is the driver of the project, which will be based on the client's expectations that you have established as a part of the project planning workshop.

What's important to realize is that whatever you plan upfront is more than likely to change, so you need to be able to adapt and change your plan if and when the need arises. There's no such thing as the perfect project plan. Each project requires its own plan and the only thing you can be sure of is that it's unlikely to work out exactly as you'd planned it.

With pricing a project, for internal projects it's a...