Diary of a Web Developer: Wrap up a big project (hint: tie off that dangling scope)
If you’re like me, you’re still learning. You’ve read a ton about web development, web project management, freelance business management, and a shit ton of Garfield comics.
You might know that when planning a project, that there should be what’s essentially a ‘hand-off plan’. In the absence of such a plan, both you and the client will suffer from the lack of direction, and the project will linger and torture you and everyone you love.
Diary of a Web Developer: Get the Drop on web project planning & needs assessment
I don’t think I’m alone here.
I work in a corporate environment; multiple projects going on at once; they need to be done yesterday; they need to serve everyone; me and my computer are the only resources.
A CRM, a CMS; They need to combine social networking with a forum and a classifieds ad model. They like what MSNBC is doing with news, but wants to add UGC and an SMS feature. They want a glorified FTP (you know, FTP but with this and this and this and this…).
Diary of a Web Developer: Guiding the client from wireframes to design
Over the past couple of months I’ve been at the head of a web site redesign project for GateHouse Media.
The site is our hub for accepting and distributing content across our media network, and so is a core element of our information systems. I’ll hereby refer to this division of GateHouse Media as the client.