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

Workflow for the Web

Workflow is simply the path that a deliverable follows through your organization as it is transformed from an input (let's say a PhotoShop page mockup) through to output (a finished HTML page). Along this path, the “raw materials” pass across the desks of many people across multiple departments. At each stop on the way, processes are applied that transform the graphics, page mockups, e-mail messages, meeting notes, and handwritten reminders into something of value. The industrial overtones take on a new complexity within Web teams. Rather than describing a digital assembly line, Web team workflow defines the “relationship” between the business units and the key events that affect your work-in-progress. It's a very good idea ...