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Collaborative Web Development: Strategies and Best Practices for Web Teams
by Jessica Burdman
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (1999-10-01)
ISBN: 0201433311
EAN: 9780201433319
UPC: 785342433319
Dewy Decimal #: 658.055276
Paperback: 272 pages
SKU: BX010-060829004
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Clean and shiny. Minor wear. CD (for Windows 95/98 and NT) included in VG condition. Spine uncreased, pgs crisp, clean, tight, unmarked. No remainder mark.
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.com
In her introduction to Collaborative Web Development: Strategies and Best Practices for Web Teams, author Jessica Burdman quotes industry leaders as saying, "Web development is crazy." Throughout the remainder of the book, Burdman breaks the process of Web development down to manageable chunks and offers techniques to help you successfully complete Web projects without pulling your hair out. This isn't a book about development tools or programming languages--it's a user manual to the process of managing site development from conception to completion. The focus is on team development since almost all such projects of any scale involve a diverse collection of professionals. Brief interviews with seasoned team leaders add real-world perspective to the topic. Burdman provides frameworks for analyzing both the project at hand and the team you have at your disposal. She tackles the process with a discussion of getting the project off the ground in an organized and complete manner. The material here is presented in plain English instead of with the usual heavy emphasis on flowcharts and management theory. She also doesn't stop with the summary of a single project cycle but covers client issues, team communication, and ongoing team cultivation as well. This book may not make all your projects go smoothly, but it will sure help. --Stephen W. Plain Topics covered: Project scope definition, cost budgeting, team assembly, content planning, team and client communication, client education, quality assurance and testing, team evolution, and case studies.
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Customer Reviews
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Good Project Management is Good Project Management
Rating  (4)
Date: 2006-03-28
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Hmm. It was interesting to read the review before this one, after reading Jessica's book. My impression of this book is that it was clearly written by someone who has been in the trenches, and managed the trenches, of both typical and demanding web-based projects over the years. Yeah, there are some references to early work and specific tools, but in general good project management is good project management. And this book outlines an approach for project management, team communication and complexity wrangling that I think is clear and pragmatic. Great book. Happy to add it to my library. I'll invariably return to it for ideas in the future.
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Very outdated
Rating  (1)
Date: 2006-02-25
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I think Collaborative Web Development was ahead of its time when it was written in 1999, but today it reads more like a relic. It also doesn't help that the writing style is rudimentary (Ms. Burdman should've considered using a ghost writer) and the book is littered with typos.
Maybe the book could be useful to people who have absolutely no experience in working with companies that have a web site, but there's got to be better stuff out there.
I would NOT recommend Collaborative Web Development for anyone who has any bit of experience in project managing for the web.
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This book really doesn't tell you much of anything.
Rating (1)
Date: 2003-07-21
3 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
Maybe this book had some good information in it during the early 90's when all of this stuff was new but now this book doesn't offer anything to anyone. All of the technical stuff is very old and the focus is on very simple stuff like HTML page directories and images while, the team structure chapters are conflicting seem to be written by someone who doesn't really understand the development process, and the project scenarios have little to no value.
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Excellent for all Web Project Managers
Rating  (5)
Date: 2002-03-11
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
I am a senior Web project manager and I am also doing my master degree in Web project management. This book is by far better than the others. The author follow a good methodology and give helpful and easy examples, she's very grounded. Recommended for junior as well as senior PM. (sorry for my poor English, I speak French!).
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good introductory treatment
Rating  (3)
Date: 2002-03-08
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Three stars is generous, but I couldn't in good conscience give it fewer. The content is good-quality, but is very "shallow." Geared exclusively toward web project teams, I expected to see some new collaborative techniques, or new spins on accepted methodology. What I got (while good) was only a very basic introduction to proper project management methodology. If you are part of, or lead, a web team, and have no experience in formal methodology, grab a copy of this book. Otherwise, look elsewhere.
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