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24 February 2003

Introduction

Web application development grows rapidly towards regular IT. However, the main difference will stay: the web is all about communication, and human communication depends heavily on the use of emotion. As we all know, the strength of traditional IT development does not lay in creative design…

The WUP team

The team should consist of a project manager, two or more developers and at least one functional decision maker. The developers can be technical developers, designers or text writers.

The tools of WUP

Before digging deeper into the process itself, let’s define the WUP toolkit first.

Design

In WUP, there is no difference between designers and programmers: they’re all developers in the WUP team. This, of course, implies that designers will have to read the technical design at least partially, as well as the functional design. Their feedback will only increase the overall quality of the application. However, apart from a functional and technical design, designers need their own set of tools and means of documentation.

Risk

It is very important to address risk in a system before even starting to develop. There are a few types of risk in every project that can be classified.

Project flow

The phases of a WUP project are shown below, including what happens in these phases. Keep in mind that the phases as stated here are not linear in time, but they consist merely of recurring events.

Conceptual phase

WUP doesn’t define much of how to work in this phase, since its philosophy is to let everybody do in which he’s best. However, there are a couple of things that should be mentioned.

Analysis Phase

The analysis phase has the deliverable to come up with a starting point for the rest of the project. Remember, it doesn't lead to a fixed plan! It's just an initial guide kind of thing. Both customer and developers will change their minds later on, you can safely bet on that.

Development phase

The next phase in a typical WUP project is the development phase.

Post-deployment phase

The post-deployment phase can include beta testing, performance tuning, maintenance and user training. All this depends heavily on the agreements that are made with the customer. Therefore, there are no standard procedures in WUP that describe what to do.

Suggestions

The next set of suggestions makes using WUP a lot easier...

Reporting project progress

The project manager has to keep track of the project’s progress. Every one or two weeks he should send out a status report to all members of the team, the customer and maybe some sponsors too. The schedule has to be fine-tuned using these reports.

Resources

The following could be useful in applying WUP.

Architectures

So, at work I am the guy who draws shapes with mysterious blocks and lines that other people eventually try to convert to software. Furthermore, I tend to have an opinion on almost anything. Don't ask why, but they call me Ming the Merciless here.

It's a little more than just software. I operate at the boundaries of software design and business. I bug everybody.

IT strategy

Should my company expose its APIs, or should we wait?
How do I crank up the numbers of my software distribution?
I have a legacy system that doesn't communicate with our web front end, but I still like it; is it possible to change it without throwing it away?
Should we deploy a uniform IT infrastructure, or could we combine products on different platforms just as easy?

Stuff like this matters. I deal with it every day.

15 February 2003

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Education: geophysics at the Utrecht University

In 1999, a study in Geophysics at the University of Utrecht, specializations Exploration Geophysics and Tectonophysics, resulted in a Master's degree.

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Agile methodology

To establish a rhythm in development, that will keep the project members on track even when the going gets tough, a development method can be used. I like agile methodologies like XP, SCRUM and WUP.

Implementing a new methodology hurts, but is also very rewarding. I have seen teams up their speed enormously by doing so. And it's a hobby, too.

About Centrical

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14 February 2003

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