A Process Improvement Model for Personal Web Page Development

1998 ABSTRACT i ABSTRACT Interest in the World Wide Web (WWW or web) is growing at a rapid pace. As more organisations and individuals seek a presence on the WWW, the size and complexity of web pages is growing at a rapid pace. However web page development is still predominantly performed in an ad hoc manner, often resulting in cost overruns, quality degradation, and maintenance problems. Although some web page development methodologies exist, there is little research on the web development process itself, and no research on improving the web development process. In response to this, this thesis presents the Personal Web Process (PWP), a prototype process improvement model for personal web page development. Aimed at the individual developer and using a personal software process improvement model as a basis, the framework described incorporates existing web development methods and issues into a proven improvement model.