-Fusebox: Developing ColdFusion Applications
-The Inmates are Running the Asylum
-About Face 2.0
-The Mythical Man Month
The first book explains the FLiP process sin detail. The second 2 are on
a subject called "interaction design", which describe how to bring the
end user back into the process. The last one is just a classic.
Steve
Andrew Spear wrote:
> Ian-
> If you don't mind reading a bit, I recommend two great books by Steve
> McConnell:
>
> 1)Rapid Development
> 2)Software Project Survival Guide
>
> He also has quite a bit of templates & forms on his company's
> website. Of course they sell a package, but quite a bit is free for
> the taking.
>
> <http://www.construx.com/cxone/basic/map.php>
>
> Best Regards-
> Andrew
>
> > I'm taking the "opportunity to excel" here at work and trying to
> bring
> > some order to our web application development. For the last year we
>
> > have been a team of two experienced CF developers, the previous year
>
> > there was only one. Pretty much working ad hock on projects as they
>
> > came along with little formal documentation. A single developer was
>
> > pretty much completely responsible for each project. This has
> worked
> > well enough for the mostly smallish projects we have done to date.
> >
> > Success has lead to more confidence by management and they are
> > beginning to authorize more ambitious projects that will be beyond
> the
> > scope of what a single developer can do in a reasonable amount of
> time.
> > Cool stuff with 1+ man years of development.
> >
> > To accommodate these projects our team is expanding. We are adding
> 3
> > junior CF developers to the team. I believe we need to grow up and
> > become more professional. Start applying a standard, formal
> software
> > development process. Allowing multiple team members with different
> > skill levels to work on these large projects.
> >
> > What I'm looking for are Software Life Cycle documentation
> templates,
> > preferably free. When I've tried to Google for this stuff I only
> find
> > examples that somebody wants to sell me (or even more costly entire
> > consulting packages). I'm hoping some of you may have worked, or
> > better yet managed, larger teams responsible for creating ColdFusion
>
> > web applications and are willing and able to share some templates
> for
> > Requirements, Design, Detailed Design type documentation or maybe
> know
> > of a good resource where I might get these type of templates.
> >
> > Also any nice suggestions for basic information on web application
> > project management would be most appreciated. I've had overviews of
>
> > analysis and design in classes, read about why formal processes good
>
> > in many places, but this will be the first time I've ever tried to
> be
> > anything like a "senior" developer after some seven years of mostly
> > solo and duet work.
> >
> > scary, Scary, SCARY thought on many levels.
> >
> > Thanks for reading my combination plea/rant.
> > Eternal thanks for any information.
> >
> > --------------
> > Ian Skinner
> > Web Programmer
> > BloodSource
> > www.BloodSource.org
> > Sacramento, CA
> >
> > "C code. C code run. Run code run. Please!"
>
> > - Cynthia Dunning
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