Web-based Systems Development: Analysis and Comparison of Practices in Croatia and Ireland

Abstract

Abstract: The ¿dot.com¿ hysteria which sparked fears of a ¿Web crisis¿ a decade ago has long subsided and firms established in the 1990¿s now have mature development processes in place. This paper presents a timely re-assessment of the state of Web development practices, comparing data gathered in Croatia and Ireland. Given the growth in popularity of ¿agile¿ methods in the past few years, a secondary objective of this research was to analyse the extent to which Web de-velopment practices are guided by or otherwise consistent with the underlying principles of agile development.