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Case Study: The Development Life Cycle of a Flex Application


Sean Schnoor

Sean Schnoor

Macromedia Strategic Services

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Defining the Team
  3. Application Life Cycle Overview
  4. Setup/Scoping
  5. Analysis
  6. Design
  7. Development/Implementation
  8. Integration
  9. In Closing
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Created:
29 March 2004
User Level:
All

Macromedia is all about enabling developers to build great experiences. Macromedia Flex puts an incredible technology in developers' hands. Flex gives them the ability to bring all of the richness of desktop application functionality to web applications. Building great experiences takes careful planning, a solid, well thought-out plan, and a talented team.

Those attending Macromedia MAX 2003 this year probably saw the Flex demo during the Day 1 of the General Session. During that session, Macromedia showed a very compelling dashboard application built jointly by Macromedia Strategic Services and WHITTMANHART, which uses the following dashboard application today to monitor their business.

The WHITTMANHART dashboard application

Preview the WHITTMANHART dashboard application
(best viewed at 1024x768 or higher)

From this effort and subsequent projects, the Macromedia Strategic Services team has gathered significant knowledge about what constitutes a successful team and workflow for building Macromedia Flex applications—and wants to share it through this article.

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About the author

Sean Schnoor is a Senior Director on the Macromedia Strategic Services team, which focuses on delivering services that ensure success for our customers' Rich Internet Applications. In this context, Sean has worked with dozens of Fortune 500 companies to deliver the compelling user experiences that generate customer loyalty and significant ROI. Sean has been with Macromedia (and Allaire) for over seven years, and has worked in a variety of strategic and customer-focused roles, including building and running Allaire's Worldwide Sales Engineer organization. Sean has worked in a technical capacity in the software industry for the past 14 years for such companies as Borland and Rational Software. You can reach Sean at sschnoor@macromedia.com.