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Pro Web Project Management is a collection of hard-won lessons the authors have learned managing modern web projects with small and medium budgets in a consulting environment. This isn’t a book about project management theory. Pro Web Project Management tells how to create real deliverables, get answers from indecisive clients, manage wayward programmers, and use checklists to wow clients. This book is made up of real examples, real lessons, real documents, and real tips woven together into a step-by-step walkthrough of a projects life cycle.
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BOOKS FOR PROFESSIONALS BY PROFESSIONALS ® Emond Steins RELATED Pro Web Project Management Pro Web Project Management offers you practical, step-by-step details on how to manage modern web projects with small and medium budgets, generally between $25,000 and $500,000. You'll learn techniques for: • Preparing a realistic budget and schedule • Getting clients to deliver project assets • Handling and negotiating out-of-scope client requests • Writing effective e-mails • Maintaining project momentum • Planning for launch day • Implementing support From defining a project and its scope of work, through product development, to ultimately deploying and supporting the product, authors Justin Emond and Chris Steins offer practical guidelines and real-world advice that enable you to take control of a project from day one. They also provide example templates that will help you focus your power and get the job done. Pro Web Project Management helps you solve problems quickly and efficiently. Packed with proven techniques and helpful templates, it will turn you into an incredibly effective project manager, one able to take both simple and complex projects from proposal to successful launch every time. Shelve in Business/Management User level: Beginning–Intermediate www.apress.com For your convenience Apress has placed some of the front matter material after the index. Please use the Bookmarks and Contents at a Glance links to access them. Pro Web Project Management Justin Emond Chris Steins Contents Contents ................................................................................................... iii About the Authors ................................................................................. iv Acknowledgments ................................................................................... v Introduction ............................................................................................. vi Chapter 1: The Project Life Cycle .......................................................1 Chapter 2: The Project Definition and Scope of Work ...............5 Chapter 3: Meetings, Meetings, Meetings ....................................... 21 Chapter 4: Discovery and Requirements ...................................... 43 Chapter 5: Project Schedule and Budgeting ................................... 59 Chapter 6: Running the Project......................................................... 79 Chapter 7: Technical Documentation ............................................ 89 Chapter 8: Development, Communication, Documentation ... 117 Chapter 9: Quality Assurance and Testing ................................... 135 Chapter 10: Deployment .................................................................. 151 Chapter 11: Support and Operations ............................................ 163 Appendix .............................................................................................. 179 Index ...................................................................................................... 279 iii Introduction Is This Guide for You? This guide was written for those who will manage or fund technology projects with budgets between $25,000 and $500,000. Our goal is