The World Wide Web is playing a vital role in today's digital world. Most enterprises are becoming digital. Also, students and regular web users are turning their personal websites into small digital enterprises. Therefore, it is necessary to make the process of developing digital enterprises as automated as possible. A feasible way to build a digital enterprise is to use an appropriate content management system, which automates most of the application requirements. A few case studies are reported in this paper to explain how the rapid prototyping process can be made easier using content management systems. These case studies include rebuilding an existing website (ETD) by enhancing its features and building a prototype for a proposed website (SEBE and SDPS).
This paper discusses a user-centered approach to requirements gathering and design and its application to an agile software development project. The approach used in this paper is based on Contextual Design (CD), a user-centered design technique, developed by Beyer and Holtzblatt. The benefits of using CD to requirements gathering and usability are explained using a case study, a Web-based seismic monitor, which allows a user to monitor earthquakes all around the world in real time. This case study demonstrates the benefits of CD by the improved design and usability of the application. CD shares some of the fundamental principles of agile software development processes, such as continuous user feedback and rapid prototyping. This makes CD a natural candidate to be used in agile software development.
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