Chapter 18: Improving the Development Process

This chapter discusses the development process from a customer point of view, focusing on commercial Internet projects rather than in-company software development. It discusses common developer activities in terms of their benefit to customers and to revenue. Next, the development process is discussed in terms of end user functionality, and then we look briefly at quality measurement. The chapter ends with a reevaluation of what is important to developers in terms of productivity.

Optimizing the Development Process for the Internet

Developing applications for the Internet is different from developing software targeted at a single company and its employees. If you have been doing company-specific development, ...

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