Jeff, since I?m working on projects using FLiP I found out that the prototyping phase actually needs the most time effort. For some customers prototyping means not only to work on a front-end, like Steve would say, but to communicate with the provide in a very critical phase. Having that in my mind I realized, that this IS the most important project phase.
Within our last FB3 project in which we were using Hal?s MVC adoption very efficiently, we spent 2 weeks on prototyping and 1 week in development including testing. Before getting the lead I made a wireframe, describing the flow of about 60% of the whole application. That took 20 minutes. With that wireframe and the business specifications of the customer I created a MM (using Visual Mind). After that we began with prototyping. I have to say that the customer did a real good job within that phase, because he really USED the prototype/devnotes very efficiently. After that 2 weeks in prototyping (gotta get HTML programmers, huh...) we began with 2 men developing the app. In that phase we actually did not finish up the fusedocs first. One wrote the fusedocs and the other one did the coding and testing right after that. We saved allot of time doing it that way and it did not affect quality. Not at all. Hope this helps a little - for more details you can contact me off list and ask more specific questions... Paul Schmidt, Infusion Networks -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Chastain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Montag, 8. April 2002 18:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Process Timeline Planning How does anybody do process planning or scheduling for FB apps? Hal mentioned in a recent class that the vast majority of time was spend in the prototyping phase, but I was wonding if anybody had anything more specific. I may be asking an impossible question (since the prototype depends on the client and the back-end number of fuses etc. depend on the prototype) but managers tend to ask the impossible, so I thought I would ask. Thanks for any input. -- Jeff ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?bUrFMa.bV0Kx9 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
