[Book] Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects
Packt Publishing recently released their new book “Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects” written by Martin Bauer from designIT.
I just went through it and this is the first book ever written about managing content management projects in general and using eZ Publish in particular. There’s a lot of technical documentation and end user documentation about eZ Publish, but there has not been any documentation for project managers besides the more general project management literature.
This book contains information on all phases in a typical eZ Publish projects life cycle. From gathering requirements, writing a project brief, planning a workshop with the client, get to the right estimates, writing the requirement specification, managing risk and find the right pricing. To managing the production using concepts from agile development, managing the information architecture with content modeling, testing, training, maintainance and support.
The nice thing about this book is that it’s not technical. It’s closely related to eZ Publish, but it also goes a far way on the content management part.
If you are a project manager responsible for any eZ Publish projects in your organization you should definitely read through this book. Developers, designers and end users can look somewhere else. However, developers and project managers work tightly together and need to understand each other. So your job as a developer is to continuously educate your project manager to understand your world - the first thing you can do is buying him/her this book 
So, a last tip from me: Most real life content management projects is a job for “The Three Musketeers” (the designer, the developer and the project manager).
- You need a solid interaction designer to create all the nice looking web interface so both the client and user gets happy (no one likes a bad interface even though the back-end solution is fantastic).
- You need a good developer that now how to slice the web design, know the eZ Publish product, the template language and how to create custom extensions.
- And you need the project manager to manage everything described in this book.
developercast.com » Knut Urdalen’s Blog: Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects on November 28th, 2007
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