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In this post I am going to discuss on web project management. But, before I write any further, let ask you this question, what is management? According to Henri Fayol, management is the ability to organize, to command, to coordinate as well to control. Hence, in order to ensure the success of a web-based project, a manager must play his or her role well. Now, let's discuss on the basic guidelines on how to manage a web-based project.

First and foremost, a project manager must choose the best model of project management. For your information, there are three models, namely; Traditional Hierarchy, Project Co-ordination and Delicate Tension.

Traditional Hierarchy


Project Co-ordination

Delicate Tension

After analyzing these model, I believe the best model is Delicate Tension (DT hereafter) model. This model integrates the first two models. Moreover, DT enables the project members to be more proactive. In addition, even though Project Manager still has the utmost determining power, he or she advocates cross discussion among the team members. In fact, the team members do not have to report every single action to the Project Manager.

Later, during the execution of the web project, necessary skills within the team must be taken into consideration. The skills are;

• Strategy - ability to identify objectives, market place, opportunities, threats, competiton and et cetera.
• Management - ability to acknowledge punctuality as well as communication between team members as well as the clients.
• Architecture & design - this area of skill focuses on the ability to create interface that have two crucial elements: user appeal and user friendly.
• Content - ability to create original content and managing feeds.
  
• Programming - ability to integrate skills like, scripting, coding, database management, server management, web applications creation, so on and so forth.

Moreover, a good project management must be able to consolidate two important social skills. They are hard skills and soft skills. Hard skills encompass assertive and leadership attributes such as controlling, leading, risk taking and knowledgeable. On the other hand soft skills deal with interpersonal skills such as ability to empathize, interest for the web, sense of humor, pragmatist and so forth.

The next step is to develop the web site. Basically there are three phases involved, namely: planning, constructing and testing. When planning, a project manager should consider areas such as the user psychology, the system and the usage consideration. As for constructing, a project manager must ensure that team members to have the sufficient skills. They must also know how to use special tools, software and applications in order to ensure the success of the web-based project. Finally, when it comes to testing a project manager must ensure the usability and functionality of the website by run-testing it before publish it to the mass.

In the final analysis, as future web developer, these considerations are applicable in order to ensure the success of my web site.