Speakers: Stephanie Troeth

Session

Managing the metamorphosis

By now, many of us who work on the Web know what web standards mean, what benefits best web practices ought to reap if we do everything just right. But in the reality of the production environment, come crunch time — standards go out the window, corners get cut, hacks worm their way in. To make it more complicated, web teams typically comprise people of differing backgrounds and ability. How much can good production planning help to balance the left-and-right brains of the web building process? Just how do we go about managing a team so that we get the best quality outcome possible?

In this session, we will discuss practical ideas and explore methods on how to get a team to work well together towards creating a quality web product.

Bio

Stephanie is a user experience designer and web producer. Her professional experience ranges from programming secure database-driven applications to interface design. She also spent a great deal of time in recent years leading production teams of variously talented folks. Currently, she is a consultant for Praized Media and a co-founder for an upcoming publishing project, Book Oven.

An expert in best web practices, she is actively involved in grassroots organisations advocating for an open and better WWW through community leadership, education and public speaking. She is currently working with a great team of educators and industry professionals on the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Curriculum Framework, due for initial release in March 2009.

While it seems unlikely, her true passions are for music and the arts, poetry, literature, good food, good wine (and the occasional single malt), and all such other things that make life worthwhile.