About WUP
The Web Unified Process is a light-weight combination of a couple of agile development methods and UML. Its name is pretentious, I know. However, the aim of the method is to provide web developers with a tool to streamline their projects and deliver products of high quality. Here at Centrical, we think of it as rather practical. Try it, and see if you like it, too.
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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…
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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.
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The tools of WUP
Before digging deeper into the process itself, let’s define the WUP toolkit first.
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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.
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