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Cutting Corners: Shortcuts in Model-Driven Web Design
  Larry L. Constantine
  Get/download .PDF FileExperience Report [#105]: 2000 |  Adobe .PDF File: about 181K.
  Abstract: Model-driven design under the pressure of Web-time development and impossible deadlines may require taking shortcuts, especially in which design models are developed and how. This reprint of a column describes the approach to usage-centered design taken in one crunch-mode project for a Web-deployed classroom information system. Continual access to domain experts and speed modeling with index cards are among the techniques that helped.
  Keywords: crunch mode, Web time, agile methods, lightweight methods, usage-centered design, Web applications, model-driven design, just-in-time requirements, card-based modeling
  Experience report [January 2000, rev. February 2002]. Reprinted as a column in The Management Forum, Software Development, February 2000. Reprinted in L. Constantine, ed., Beyond Chaos: The Expert Edge in Managing Software Development (Addison-Wesley, Boston, 2001).
  Get/download .PDF FileExperience Report [#105]: 2000 |  Adobe .PDF File: about 181K.