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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

Responding to Change over Following a Plan


One of my favorite quotes is from Dwight Eisenhower; he said "plans are useless but planning is indispensable". Being the good project manager, I used to produce detailed Gantt charts using MS Project until I realized that the project never turned out the way I planned it. Now I know that they almost never will.

Creating the initial project plan is an important process to capture all the tasks required, the ideal order in which they should be done, and most importantly, to identify dependencies. However, what's captured in the initial project plan and how things happen in reality are often quite different. As President Dwight Eisenhower stated, "Plans are useless but planning is indispensable".

The purpose of the plan is to know what you are deviating from when you have to make a change. Change is inevitable, there's no point in fighting it. The best thing to do is simply accept it and work out how best to manage it. That doesn't mean you let the...