A Lightweight Development Process for Implementing Business Functions on the Web

From a software engineering perspective, moving a business software application to the web presents interesting challenges. These include frequent changes to requirements, changes to the underlying business function as a consequence of moving to the web, tight time and cost constraints, and producing quality user interfaces within the restrictions of the web environment. This paper describes a lightweight, two-phase process that integrates advantages from incremental development, throwaway prototyping, and waterfall process models to address these challenges. A successful development experience using this process is summarized.