Production CycleProduction Cycle
Objectives:
Identifying key phases for building up website
Understanding the major goals and activities of each production process, Defining key roles and outputs for each stage of a project
Introduction
Planning
Good Planning?
Achievable timelines
Clearly defined workflow
Clear roles and responsibilities
Decision-making framework

Project Manager
: Role of PM
Have budgets, resources and schedules approved
Bring the production team together
Draw up contracts or similar arrangements with the people involved in the production
Understand the scope of the project and what is required
Make some initial designs
Planning
- what do we do?
Stakeholder meeting:
Proposal / concept brief / response to tender
Budget or project resources approved
Team Meeting:
Roles , Responsibilities
Where are the workspaces – Physical and virtual
Types of files that will be produced
File naming conventions
Standards for production, documentation and access
Guidelines for production of content
Develop a list of what will be produced
Planning
- what do we do?
Information Architecture Process:
Goals
Audience scenarios
Content and functions
Metaphors
Flowcharts
Layouts
Planning
- output
Requirement Specifications/Design Documents
Flowcharts:Storyboard
Layout Grids
Production
To consider all the structure of pages vertical/horizontal pass depth of each page navigation HTML/graphics/scripts/etc -- Production and integration
Usability /Component Testing (alpha testing)

Testing
Testing should be based on specifications.
Whether to conform certain standards and functions
To test performance
Testing is cyclical.
To revise and bugs.
Validation
Beta Testing
Publish
To monitor performance of your system
To prepare a maintenance guide
To conduct training for the users/operators
Evaluation
To check up documentation
Thank-you letters
Requirement Specifications
Description of