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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

Chapter 9. Open Project Management

  • 19% of projects will be cancelled before they ever get completed.

  • 46% of projects will cost time and budget overruns.

  • 35% of projects are completed on-time and on-budget.

These are some pretty alarming statistics (from the Chaos Report 2006). Although they related to software projects, I've little doubt the numbers are similar for content management projects if not worse. Basically, this means that two-thirds of projects will get into serious trouble. And the majority of that will NOT be for technical reasons; the majority of problems on projects are people related, whether that's poor requirements gathering, poor communication, poor choice of staff, poor management, or just plain ignorance.

If you are considering your first eZ publish project, it's a new technology in the emerging field of content management where there is little to guide you. How is this likely to affect your chances for success?

Ok, so far it's not looking so great—but don't give up just...