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PM meets dev: a bigger picture look at the web – Part 2
Posted on February 8th, 2009 1 commentThis is a continuation from Part 1. If you have not read that, I encourage you to read it first.
In my last post, we were looking at a large picture perspective of web applications. I first must apologize for a misuse of terminology. I used the terms “PM” and “Project Manager” when referring to the role being described in my last post. Strictly speaking that would be incorrect as just setting up premade software would not concern a PM in all likelihood. I should have just used the term “manager”.
As we continue, we are going to look at usability and maintainability. We are going to continue to approach these problems from the perspective of effort/time and decisions rather than technical aspects except where very useful.
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PM meets dev: a bigger picture look at the web – Part 1
Posted on February 4th, 2009 No commentsI feel like it might be a good time to step back. This blog has existed for only a few years (going on 4), but it really has been enough time to see quite a bit change in the world of the internet. I maybe a dev in general, but I think a PM perspective is valuable especially from this perspective
I am by no means an expert on many topics including the ones I want to look at. I do argue that to be a feature in the regard that most of the world is not experts. Because of that, I can present a user’s perspective to a lot of topics.
I have wanted to see a wonderful and accessible web for a long time. From the client side, we have achieved that to a great degree. Browsers are actually overall acceptable products. I will not call them perfect by any means, but I do not think that a large concern of the web needs to be focused on the client. Instead I want to focus on the server side.
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