PBA Front-End Programming Development Organisation.
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PBA Front-End Programming
Development Organisation
Web Development Organisation
• In place:– Website purpose– Website goals– Target audience
• Can we start designing now…?
• Almost, need to set the team first
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• Web site development projects cover many diciplines – just as SW development
• Size and skill set of team determined by– Budget– Available resources in development organisation– Website focus
Technical
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Creative Administrative
Production
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• Core skill set (diciplines) needed– Strategy and planning (Strategic level)– Project management (Tactical/Operational level)– Information architecture– User Interface design– Graphic design– Web technology– Site production
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• Core development team roles– Project stakeholder/sponsor– Project manager– Usability lead– Information architect– Art director– Technology lead– Site production lead– Site editor
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• Project stakeholder / sponsor– ”The guy who pays the bills”– Provides purpose, vision and goals– Provides domain knowledge– Point-of-contact to sponsoring organisation– Delivers web site content– Not a call-when-you-are-done role; must
participate actively in project!
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• Project manager (admin)– Keeps the project on track on a day-to-day basis– Point-of-contact between team and sponsor– Manages internal team communication– Project administration (meeting, minutes, notes,
plans, schedules, budgets,…)
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• Usability lead– ”Shape the overall user experience”– The users advocate on the team– User research (interview, field studies,…)– Develop usability standards– Conduct usability tests, and provide feedback to
relevant team members– Involved in measuring project success
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• Information architect– Organise web site structure and content– Develop terminologies, categorisation schemes,…– Ensure consistency across the website– Enure overall content quality– Design web pages at ”wireframe” level, in
cooperation with Art Director
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• Art director– Establish ”look and feel” for the website– Ensure consistency with e.g. corporate identity
standards, UI standards,…– Visual interface design– Color palette, typography, illustrations, …– Page design details
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• Technology lead– ”The programmer guy” – Deciding on web publishing tools, development
languages, databases, network,…– Responsible for technology integration– Responsible for back-end development– May manage sub-teams of programmers,
database developers,… (back-end)
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• Site production lead– ”Builds” the website– Converts detailed page designs into actual web
pages (HTML, CMS, development tool,…)– Develops page templates (XHTML, CSS) to be filled
with actual content
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• Site editor– Responsible for written content on the website
(quality, style and tone,…)– Collect, organise and deliver finished text to
website production team– Responsible for maintaining the website content
after site launch – ongoing effort– Improving website visibility (Search Engine
Optimisation)
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• Roles, skills and people– What background, education, experience,
attitude, etc is needed for each role?– How does our ”resource pool” look?– How large is the project– When are people rolled on/off the project?
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Large project
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• Small Project– Project stakeholder/sponsor (in-house)– Project manager– Usability lead– Information architect– Art director– Technology lead– Site production lead– Site editor
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