Collaborative Web Development: Strategies and Best Practices for Web Teams [With CDROM]

Here's the template you need to run your team. Jessica does a good job drawing from her experiences to avoid some of the common pitfalls. Don't try to reinvent the wheel by trial and error project management--go read the book & follow her sage advice to improve your likelihood of project success.

Jessica Burdman has written Collaborative Web Development to assist companies to establish a team concept of Web development. She offers a sound blueprint for Web development that will allow a number of creative individuals to make their own contributions and for companies to better manage every stage of development from beginning to end. Burdman lays down a solid foundation for establishing a serious Web development team. She identifies key team members and their individual responsibilities, she will assist project managers to break down and assign specific project responsibilities, and she will help companies to better manage their people and business policies. Burdman offers noteworthy advice on handling client matters such as payments, their involvement in the Website design process, dealing with roadblocks, thorny issues, and meeting deadlines. A central theme emphasized throughout the book is good communication at all levels of development. Burdman will assist companies large and small to work through the many issues they will face, including many that will stretch their patience thin. The accompanying CD contains a number of helpful demoware development programs and other essential tools to meet a variety of Web development needs. Highly recommended for any Web design and consulting business environment!

This book is a concise, practical handbook which offers detailed guidance on the nuts & bolts of web project management. I recommend it as a crash course for any new web project manager, as well as for experienced managers who are looking to home their process with some valuable tips.

Collaborative Web Development shares the common and not so common pitfalls of building, maintaining and managing web teams. Matrix managment is today's managment style for many web projects and the book helps, alot. Jessica's approach delivers a fast reading, informative handbook approach to keeping ahead of the web development curve. The CD provides fast access to problems and possible solutions.

Particularly considering the wide variation this can take I think this book does an excellent job of describing theissues and problems that need to be dealt with for a web team leader. I thought the the Case Studies were particularly well done and the profiles were generally quite interesting also. I think this will be a competitive book. As web projects get larger and more complex team building and management will become more important. This book is well aimed at this growing market. I have actually found the book to be quite useful as I've reviewed it, I am personally involved in a start-up large scaledevelopment project and some of the issues raised and profiles have been very instructive.