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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

Open Management Practices


These practices have one thing in common, they are about keeping the project open. Information should be transparent. Everyone should know what's going on, at all levels of the project. The presentation of the information may change depending on the audience, e.g. summaries for management, detailed specifications for developers, but it should all be accessible by anyone on the project.

Team Dynamics

The first and most important part of the project is creating the team. Jeff Deluca (inventor of Feature-Driven Development) talks about building the system that will build the system. What this means is a group of people with clear roles, responsibilities, and a framework for working together to produce the end result. The team is the system that will build the site. If the team works well together, the project will go smoothly. If the team doesn't work together, the project will be difficult, regardless of what process you use.

Who's on the Team?

You'd expect a standard...