Following up on the last post, “Project Planning: Creating a Strawman Plan”, let’s dive in a little closer using our ongoing example project of installing wireless at the church coffee bar. We know that we …

Tammy at Multi-Site Kids had an interesting post about how she would prefer to have better reporting solution for her check-in system:
For us, one area that makes me cringe is our check-in system. It’s …

It may be early in the life of your church project, but often you have to provide a timeline for a project to your stakeholders. This early timeline is sometimes called a strawman project plan, …

I just finished reading a new book, The Multi-Site Church Revolution: Being One Church in Many Locations. (Disclaimer: I received this book for free in exchange for a review on my blog). Multi-site churches are …

Once you have your milestones and risks assessed, the next step is to begin to chart the project timeline. The first step in planning your timeline is to review the Iron Triangle of time, cost, …

Jim Walton at Church Tech Matters wrote a post about his new About Me page, so I thought I’d do the same. I’ve posted my About Me page, and I’ve also provided a new contact …

Some days, things just go wrong. Servers fail. Computers crash. People don’t show up. Timing is wrong. Often, it is not the things we expect to fail, but the things that we don’t take the …

I attended the [tag]Maximum Impact 2006[/tag] simulcast at Bethany Methodist Church in Austin, TX on Friday. Overall it wasn’t bad, though it wasn’t as nice as last year. The best speaker was [tag]Tim Sanders[/tag], who …

Sometimes in life, things come in patterns. With the blogosphere, this can happen quite frequently due to some big news topic. For me today, I’ve had two topics show up from seemingly random sources. Here …

With anything you do in the church setting, there are target dates. The dates may be flexible or firm. The pace you set for your ministry will be defined by a number of factors, but …