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As your milestone or project ends, schedule a meeting with all of your team members as ask the following questions:
What worked well on our milestone/project?
What didn’t work so well?
How can we improve our next milestone/project?
Go …
Whenever you are ready to execute a project, you must be prepared to manage the tasks. Task management is often a full-time job and requires that you, as a ministry leader or manager, not do …
Sorry for the long pause in posts – I’ve been really busy with work, church, and other duties. On the church front, I’ve been asked to help lead an effort at church to support the …
One of the largest advantages to projects is that they have a beginning and ending. Standard service duties never end: ushering, lighting, and worship team to name a few. As we defined our project …
Picking up on the last post about Build vs. Buy Basics, here is how to start approaching the buy vs. build decision:
1. Research
Given your requirements, identify as many options as possible using search engines, word-of-mouth …
Everything is a trade-off: time vs. money, low-cost vs. high-cost, high-tech vs. low-tech. We all have to make decisions when we do things. Unfortunately, it is common within churches and ministries to always go the …
There has been quite a bit of talk around the blogosphere about the need for churches to revise their website. I believe that most churches should budget for hiring a company over doing it internally …
As many of you know, I’m a full-time software architect, concentrating mostly on Enterprise Java for the small and large companies. While I have posted a few technical items on this blog from my days …
So far, we have listed our project goals, key milestones, risks, and a strawman project plan. These steps together are often what is called the “Inception Phase”, and includes everything to define what is trying …
Over the Memorial Day weekend, I was handed a coupon for 50% off a single non-sale item at Michael’s. Since my daughter is now into a line of toys that they sell, I thought this …