At Esberi (the place where I work), a 5D process is used to develop RIA, but on a personal note, I believe processes are for large organizations where the team size is large and it would be necessary then to have processes, workflows or information exchange protocols. For smaller teams, the motive behind organization should be to harness creativity and productivity. But does this mean I disown the process (in fact I drafted the illustrations for it) which Esberi has, well not. When working with clients who are more like Outsourcing managers, Project managers, or any manager oriented contact, processes like 5D helps to deliver in systematic approach which managers usually would like to. This gives the client side managers the ability to track progress at each level, but at times in my own personal experience, the client side managers bring along their own workflows and deliverable’s standards.
But when working with clients, where the contact is more of developer or designer profile, its always to better speak in their language and adapt around their working environment, small things like SVN vs CVS, Illustrator vs Photoshop, matter alot. Its always fun to work with these kinds of profile as you learns and share alot with like minded people. And usually this kind of client profile are small design firms or startups or individual consultants. This sort of work also helps to be Agile, try SCRUM and Waterfall, sometime at end we wind up mixing all, we realize this only during the bar hangout session (my favorite is Orangina) after the project closure meets.
Anyways, I was invited at the RIAaction 2009 event in Singapore to speak on how 5D process helps to deliver RIA, apart from getting a chance to speak at this event, I got also a chance to evaluate the Big 3 RIA technologies, as the event was sponsored by Microsoft, Google and Adobe, it was a unique opportunity to look at all three RIA platforms under one roof, Flash, Silverligth and GWT.
Sorry attaching the audio commentary makes the file too large, also usually I sound more like a beaten up Homer.
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