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Furthermore, scrutinize every “best practice” you find in your own environment: does it really deliver on its promise? Does something need to be added to make it work in the “real world”? Write about these add-ons and fixes, adding them as comments to the original article.
Together We Can Do This The last thing I want to bring up here is that I am tired of the debate about developer vs. designer vs. project manager. As listed above, real Web projects require a lot of different skill sets, and you would be hard pressed either to find someone who possesses all of them or to find the time to learn them all yourself and stay up to date. It is all about teamwork, trust, delegation and communication. If we stay cooped up in our respective ivory towers and complain that we can’t work with the other groups, while pretending that we could do their jobs anyway if only people would upgrade their browsers, then we shouldn’t be surprised that we don’t get the time and opportunity to own and deliver a real Web product, as opposed to some piece of software with a Web interface. Christian Heilmann is an international Developer Evangelist working for the Yahoo Developer Network in the lovely town of London, England
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