Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches

A New Perspective on Scope

Most standard models for software development assume a fixed scope that can be clearly defined at the outset of a project before any work begins. This presents a problem, since Web sites constantly evolve in a changing technological and business environment. In this chapter you'll learn to look at scope organically, as a collection of requirements that need to be described, documented, and managed as they grow. We'll also examine processes that embrace change through the use of iteration. These newer approaches allow the requirements to evolve through a series of small releases, showing early results and incorporating client feedback during production.

G Iteration

The process of making incremental refinements to software. ...