Summary

Once you have a tentative plan and schedule, you can now move on to the development stage, which we will discuss in the coming chapters.

Remember that as the business benefits of using an intranet grow, so will the additional management issues of maintaining them. If this has not been factored in during the preparation stage, all that hard-earned management buy-in will be for naught. By sticking close to the plan you have made with your stakeholders, your content contributors, your developers and your designers, you can avoid costly delays in your intranet development.

In the upcoming chapters, we will discuss different browser platforms, development techniques, usability, managing content, internal communication through the intranet, internally marketing your intranet, and strategies to deal with large intranets and remote users. We will also discuss extending the intranet to an extranet.

Hold on to your britches, it's going to be a wild ride.