Seventh of eight decks written to provide overview guidance of the way the web works for small to medium sized enterprises who are considering commissioning a web site for the first time. Arguably, the preceding six decks are primarily concerned with the subject matter of this deck.

1. The Organisation As A System
The Performance Organisers
Structured Coherent Design
The Performance Organisers
Commissioning a Web Site
Part Seven – Selecting a Developer
The introduction slide deck video can be downloaded here
This slide deck can be downloaded from:
http://www.jitsoftware.co.uk/training/websitecse/webdev.pptx
The preceding video on web site exploitation and issues to
consider can be downloaded here

2. The Performance Organisers
http://www.jitsoftware.co.uk
Commissioning a Web Site – Selecting a Developer

3. The Performance Organisers
About the Author:
• Allen Woods, recently retired.
• Ex British Army (1971 – 1995) Taught Arctic Warfare, Several Years
On Operations, Funded Himself through College to Study IT
• Chartered Member of the British Computer Society for 20 years
• Member of the Chartered Status Interview Panel for BCS
• In 2010, Finalist of UK “Developer Of The Year” Competition for HSIS
• Primarily Employed in UK Defence Supply Chain and Logistics IT
since 1995 until 2019
• Credits: MoD Health and Safety Information System, Various Internal
to Defence P&G Portals, CATMIS, IQB Oversight to Defence Voyager
Programme IM Transformation
• Home Domain: http://www.jitsoftware.co.uk/portal/
Commissioning a Web Site – Selecting a Developer

4. The Performance Organisers
Commissioning a Web Site – Selecting a Developer
A bit of revision
• An introduction to the deck set
• Legislative environment
• Policy and governance
• How the web works
• An overview of web page coding
• Web exploitation
Please review the other decks before proceeding with this
one

5. The Performance Organisers
Commissioning a Web Site – Selecting a Developer
The sales pitch…..
• Full stack developer…..
• GDPR Compliant
• SEO “out of the box”
• We use “This or That Template”
• “Agile”
• And more acronyms than you can shake a stick at
This is what will happen
• A dependency will develop…
• A web site is not just for Christmas
• “Not in the specification”
• Internal training requirement
• Other infrastructure costs
• Control of who does what…
• Policy and Governance properly constructed..
• The need to develop an understanding of
liability

6. The Performance Organisers
Commissioning a Web Site - The Nature of the
Web
Trillions of times per day, for billions of
people

7. The Performance Organisers
Commissioning a Web Site – Selecting a Developer
Understand the nature of accountability and liability

8. The Performance Organisers
Commissioning a Web Site – Selecting a Developer
Review and gauge the candidates skill set

9. The Performance Organisers
Commissioning a Web Site – Selecting a Developer
Ask to see:
• A portfolio of existing work:
• Review F12
• Review using baycloud and webpagetest
• A CV (for XFIA classification purposes)
• Proof of professional indemnity insurance
• References
• Membership of professional bodies
• OEM specific qualifications

10. The Performance Organisers
Commissioning a Web Site – Selecting a Developer
Gauging Skill Sets (Skills Framework for the Information Age)

11. The Performance Organisers
Commissioning a Web Site – Selecting a Developer
Ways of working and deliverables

12. The Performance Organisers
Commissioning a Web Site – Selecting a Developer
Ways of working
• If you think a professional is expensive, just wait until you pay for an
amateur
• Single Contractor pricing
• Fixed price
• Template based..
• Roll their own.
Single Contractor pricing sample model:
• 180 working days per annum
• Count on 75 days per annum
• Charge a fee rate accordingly

13. The Performance Organisers
Commissioning a Web Site – Selecting a Developer
Minimum Deliverables..
• Source Code
• Image files
• Licence to use
• Cookie functional descriptions
• Policy and governance documentation
• Domain registration documentation
• SSL documentation
• A user guide
• A guarantee of work
• Database documentation
• Component license details
Caveat Emptor – Make sure your contract includes a full
deliverable list

14. The Performance Organisers
Commissioning a Web Site – Selecting a Developer
Plan it……………

15. The Performance Organisers
Commissioning a Web Site – Selecting a Developer
Employing a web developer is about acquisition
of capability
• Concept,
• Assessment,
• Demonstration,
• Make,
• In service,
• Termination
Lines of Development
Sample plan structure

16. The Performance Organisers
Commissioning a Web Site – Selecting a Developer
Test and review
• Nightmare letter
• Everyone will find out you have a reading age of six…….
• Murphys law rules
• Garbage In Garbage Out
• Accountability
Caveat Emptor – You sign off and accept your site, you are
acknowledging its “fitness for purpose”

17. The Performance Organisers
The Portal
Commissioning a Web Site – Selecting a Developer

18. The Performance Organisers
Reading List
Go through the previous 6 slide decks
Commissioning a Web Site – Selecting a Developer

19. The Performance Organisers
Finally folks….
Commissioning a Web Site – Selecting a Developer
Your web site is the first point of contact for on line
business. It is a strategic asset of major importance.
The primary rule is “buyer beware”. Review the
previous six slide decks and you will be in a better
position to make informed decisions on the technical
and legal environment you are about to enter. A
good, professional and competent web developer
WILL be aware of all of the implications and issues
discussed in these decks….
The next slide deck is a review and wrap up…

20. http://www.jitsoftware.co.uk
Tel: +44 07780 568449
Email: allenwoods@jit-software.com
Skype: apw808
The Performance Organisers
Commissioning a Web Site