Many of the characteristics of both the Waterfall method and the Iterative methods are not possible in sub-90 day projects. The days when gathering requirements took three months are now replaced with an economy that demands web solutions be delivered—from start to finish—in only three months!

The new web economy has provided web developers with tools allowing them to react more quickly and accurately to new requirements and a changing business environment. Gone are the days when you have to schedule to install software on an end user’s PC and take a week or two to get feedback. Web developers quickly whip together a web page, review it with an end user, and start to work on its back-end code all within the span of a few hours, thanks to web browsers and Internet collaboration.

Just as web developers have quickly adapted to the new economy, web project leaders have found new project management techniques are needed to facilitate delivering web projects on time and on budget in short 30 to 90 day life cycles.

Activate Bluetooth®:
1. Starting with the phone, click with the trackwheel to bring up the menu.
2. Scroll to and select “Options.”
3. Select “Bluetooth.”
4. Look in the top left hand corner of the screen and if it reads, “Bluetooth: Enabled,” skip to step 6. If it reads “Bluetooth: Disabled,” proceed to step 5.
5. To enable Bluetooth, click the trackwheel. A drop down menu will appear, and select “Enable Bluetooth.”

Putting the Headset into Pairing Mode:
6. Put down the phone and pick up the headset. Starting with the headset powered off, hold down the Call button for 6 to 10 seconds until the light stays lit. (Initially, the light will flash a few times before staying lit.) If the light is flashing, or if the light starts flashing anytime during steps 7 through 12, the headset is not in pairing mode, and this step (step 6) needs to be repeated, beginning with the headset powered off.

Select the HS820 Headset:
7. Go back to the phone, and click with the trackwheel.
8. On the drop down menu, select “Add Device.” The phone will start searching for Bluetooth enabled devices.
9. On the screen, a list of one or more devices will appear. Once the phone is finished searching, select “Motorola HS820.”
10. A screen will pop up asking for the passkey. Enter the passkey 0000, and click using the trackwheel. A screen will appear confirming that the pairing is complete. Since pairing is complete, the light on the device will be flashing.
11. To be able to use the device after pairing is complete, underneath the screen heading “Paired Devices,” select “Motorola HS820.”
12. On the drop down menu, select “Connect.” Now the devices are paired and connected.

m – Mute

Archives the conversation, and all future messages skip the Inbox unless sent or cc’d directly to you. Learn more.

u – Return to conversation list

Refreshes your page and returns you to the inbox, or list of conversations.

y then o – Archive and next

Archive your conversation and move to the next one.

The most common place for credit card information to be stolen is at a restaurant, according to Visa.

The credit card company, which constantly monitors cardholder transactions and data for fraud, has determined that 40 percent of all credit card theft occurs at dining locations — more than at any other type of merchant. source

Do you know that GMail has a simple keyboard shortcut to delete email messages ? The same key combination works across all web browsers but for some reason, Google decided not to share it with GMail users.

If you are reading a message in GMail, press the # key (Shift 3) and that message will instantly move to Trash. Source

Projects spanning nine months or more tend to be inflexible. Most project managers are not interested in reworking the base assumptions of an elaborately crafted massive project plan. By contrast, web solutions that are delivered in 30 to 90 day life cycles allow a business to quickly change course and take advantage of newly released technology solutions.

Remain competitive by delivering with web speed in an ever-changing market.

Client/Server technologies focused on creating decentralized PC-centric systems. Client/Server systems emerged to facilitate building RAD (rapid application development) methodologies. Most of these development methods focused on an iterative, staged-delivery approach.

The Client/Server project was broken into multiple phases each containing a complete iteration. Prototyping, coding, quality assurance, and end user evaluation took place within each iteration. Since software was being rolled out in phases, each stage could be evaluated and major system flaws detected early in the life cycle.

Agile Methodologies have replaced these legacy methodologies and allow us the web testing flexibility to be competitive.

In order to meet changing business needs, project management must be be flexible, adaptable, and above all quick! Break web projects into a series of iterations delivered in less than three month cycles. This enables you (at reduced cost and risk!) to deliver business solutions that address quickly evolving business needs.

Project management must balance the triangle of cost, quality and time. With web systems, project managers find themselves scrambling to deliver innovative solutions while still controlling costs.

The rapid pace of change and innovation on the web has caused a new catch phrase to be coined—‘Internet-time.’ Doing things in Internet-time means getting things done faster than in the old economy. The rapid rate of e-business change makes quickly delivering web solutions imperative.

Anyone building a business web site benefits from using an agile methodology: decision makers, business managers, web project managers, technical team leaders, consultants, digital media directors, and most of all, the web developers who are often left to improvise and manage projects with little direction from their management.

I’ve witnessed failed projects which did not achieve business results. Despite experience and planning, many times the best efforts still turned into the worst results. Developers typically lack a good road map to navigate their project to a successful end. This lack of direction dooms the project before the first line of code is even written.

Don’t become another victim of project failure—adopt a proven software development methodology!

Projects can be technical successes but business disasters. Ask any end user who patently rejects the software IT has labored to produce for them, and they’ll quickly say—”This software isn’t what we needed!”

Thus the problem. Typically, at project kick off end users are asked what they need. Then IT goes off for a few months, and after the rigors of quality assurance testing, the end users finally get their hands on the software.

Now, the user gives real feedback, but it’s too late. You’ve already exhausted the budget and timeline for the project. More time and funding are needed to add the features end users really need, but it is too late to recover. The abacus ticks off another failed IT project. The only thing saving you from losing favor is IT’s pre-existing perception as a fickle monster, fed often but only intermittently able to deliver high-impact, successful systems.

This highlights the need for Agile project management techniques.