Web Site Development Methodologies - High Level Models and Methodologies for Information Systems - page 70

1. Requirements speci cation and analysis

2. Web-based system development techniques
3. Integration with legacy systems
4. Migration of legacy systems to Web environments
5. Web-based real-time applications development
6. Testing, veri cation, and validation

7. Quality assessment, control, and assurance
8. Con

guration and project management

for estimation of development efforts
10. Performance speci

9. “ Web metrics ”

cation and evaluation
11. Update and maintenance
12. Development models, teams, and staf ng

13. Human and cultural aspects
14. User-centric development, user modeling, user involvement, and feedback
15. End-user application development
16. Education and training

Web Engineering proponents argue that future development models should build
on these principles and good practices. Thus, we can assert that Web Engineering is
not a methodology per se, but it is a set of standards that is designed to in uence or

shape future models of development, making it an important milestone in the
evolution of Web development methodologies.

4.7 Internet Commerce Development Methodology (ICDM)

As the focus of applications development shifted from traditional information
systems to the Web, there was a particular aspect of Web development that captured
the attention of researchers: e-commerce. Standing ( 1999 ) thus proposed a meth-
odology that would speci

cally cater to the needs of e-commerce projects within
organizational contexts. It was intended as both a management strategy, and a
development strategy, heavily focused on business goals and needs. It presents a
holistic, subjectivist perspective, aimed at addressing issues of strategic, business,
managerial, and organizational culture (Standing 2001 ).
ICDM proposes that the development of a Web site entails three different levels
or dimensions: the organizational level, consisting of a Web management team, the
development level, consisting of a Web site component production team, and the
implementation level, consisting of all the technical aspects of implementation and
appropriate teams (Standing 1999 ).
According to this methodology, there are seven stages in the process of devel-
oping a Web product.
Strategy is the

first and the most important: Managers need to determine the
organization ' s competitive situation, by assessing its place in the environment. This
is achieved by means of SWOT analysis: an examination of the company ' s