PHP Team Development -- Table of Contents -- PHP Team Development -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Software is Complex -- Need for teams -- Software engineering principles to help -- Use a process -- Divide and conquer -- Guarantee reuse -- Guarantee integration -- Prevent regression -- Vertical versus horizontal division -- Continuous integration -- Patterns as solutions -- Process for success -- Tools -- Source code control -- Continuous builds -- Issue tracking -- Communication -- Summary -- 2. MVC and Software Teams -- Software design patterns -- MVC pattern -- Intent -- Motivation -- Solution -- Model -- View -- Controller -- How MVC can help -- MVC helps with change -- Implementing MVC with a team -- Aspects of the presentation layer (view) -- The overall team distribution -- Integration challenges -- Summary -- 3. Dealing with Complexity -- Frameworks to simplify complexity -- How can frameworks help? -- Expectations from frameworks -- Simplicity -- Size of the framework -- Performance -- Security -- Separate HTML from PHP -- AJAX support -- No restrictions -- Object-oriented versus functional -- Code quality of the project -- Enforce best practices -- Configuration needs -- Internationalization -- Documentation -- Community -- Commercial support -- License -- Vendor locking -- Availability with hosting -- Some more points to ponder -- Team success with frameworks -- Technical feasibility study of the framework -- PHP Frameworks -- Limb -- phpDrone -- ZNF -- ATK -- Akelos -- CakePHP -- CodeIgniter -- Zend Framework -- PHP Work -- Symfony -- KISS-beyond frameworks -- Beyond frameworks -- People are complex -- Avoid NIH -- Innovation.

Embrace change -- Simplicity is a mindset -- Summary -- 4. The Process Matters -- Process and product -- Ignoring the process -- Process must be respected -- From no process to some process -- Process helps not hinder -- Simple process for PHP projects -- User requirements -- Modeling what the users want -- Data modeling -- Business modeling -- User activity analysis -- Designs and implementing the data layer -- Designs and implementing the business layer -- Design and implementation of the user interface -- Summary -- 5. Agile Works Best -- Introducing agile philosophy -- Agile values -- Agile principles -- Individuals and interactions -- Working software over comprehensive documentation -- Customer collaboration -- Responding to change -- Customizing agile to our needs -- Common fears for developers -- Producing the wrong product -- Product of inferior quality -- Getting late to complete the project -- Too much work in too little time -- Traits of agile team members -- Competence -- Common focus -- Collaboration -- Decision-making ability -- Fuzzy-problem solving ability -- Mutual trust and respect -- What is agility -- Characteristics of an agile process -- Principles of agility -- Extreme Programming (XP) -- XP planning -- XP design -- XP coding -- XP testing -- Advantages of agile development process -- Team agility -- Agile process models -- Adaptive Software Development -- Dynamic Systems Development Method -- Dynamic Systems Development Method's life cycle -- Scrum -- Backlog -- Sprints -- Scrum meetings -- Demos -- Feature Driven Development -- Agile Modeling -- Agile for the PHP team -- Pair programming -- Sustainable working style -- Information-driven workspace -- Fixing the process -- Sitting together -- Ubiquitous language -- Stand-up meetings -- Demonstrate the iteration outcome -- Summary -- 6. Ways of Collaboration.

Team work is challenging -- Team members make assumptions -- Making integration possible -- Source control -- Bug control -- Configuration management -- Tools for communication and collaboration -- Tracking tools -- Summary -- 7. Continuous Improvement -- Dealing with change in PHP applications -- Ensuring process effectiveness -- Ensure you are improving -- Evolving PHP applications -- People development -- Teams and success -- Managing the team -- Leadership -- Quality focus -- Constant monitoring -- The team is human -- Summary -- Index.