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

Summary

Software development for the Web follows a standard process. However, the “paint by numbers” approach is not enough to ensure a quality end product. Help your tech leads to institute a formalized code review process in order to introduce quality checkpoints that will identify problems before it is too late. Given the complexity of software development work, your best hope as a project manager is to create the conditions for effective self-policing. Code review allows you to harness the collective knowledge and experience of your technical team. Additionally, code review can safeguard against “hidden” bugs that might not reveal themselves during quality assurance testing (QA), like performance or scalability limitations. Since most project ...