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PHP Team Development

By : Samisa Abeysinghe
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PHP Team Development

By: Samisa Abeysinghe

Overview of this book

Given the nature of the business environment today, organizations that want to build value-added enterprise PHP applications need a team of PHP people rather than an individual. You've got a team! What next? Customizing such applications to meet with organizational objectives and maintaining these applications over time can be quite a tedious task for your team with so many people involved. In this book, you will explore how you can break up complex PHP projects into simple sub-parts that multiple team members can work on. The book highlights the use of the MVC pattern for separating concerns in the application and agile principles to deliver code that works. You will learn to blend the simplicity and power of PHP with evolving software engineering principles and tools to easily develop code that is easy to maintain. With this book in hand, you know how to avoid getting muddled up while working in a team and achieve success on your project with effective team work. Organizations choose PHP as the preferred language for complex web applications because it is battle tested, hardened over time, and proven to work. Thus, chances of the software project you are involved with being PHP-based, are very high. Soon, you will need to explore the technical as well as non-technical aspects that are important to achieve success in PHP team projects of this kind. This book starts by explaining the need for teams working on complex software projects. You learn how you can divide the complexity of PHP projects with the help of the MVC pattern and the use of frameworks. It then discusses the need for a process and how you can choose the right process. It teaches you how to use agile principles to deliver working software for customers, and how to make sure that the team collaborates effectively. Towards the end, the book emphasizes continuous improvement in process and product as well as the people involved. You learn how to ensure that your team is open to change and user feedback, and has the right mindset about quality and other project-related aspects.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Agile process models


We have discussed Extreme Programming earlier, as it is the most widely used agile process. In the following sections, we will discuss some additional agile process models that are in use.

Adaptive Software Development

The philosophy driving Adaptive Software Development (ASD) is that self-organization arises when independent members in a team cooperate to create a solution to a problem that is beyond the capability of any individual member.

Adaptive cycle is mission-driven, component-based, iterative, time-boxed, risk driven, and change-tolerant. Mission driven means that the team defines the objectives to be achieved through the process, and take up the project as a mission that must be accomplished. The system is defined as a set of components. In the case of PHP projects, each layer can have one or more components. Each iteration of the project will be time-boxed, meaning that we will come up with a well-defined schedule. Moreover, each iteration will have a well-defined...