Make Post-Launch a Success (Presented at Ground Control Conf in London, April 2017) It’s launch day! You and your team have worked hard to achieve this — the moment when you release your client’s website into the wild, ready to go off and live on its own. But wait! Is the client’s team equipped to handle the growing needs of their new website? Who will be making needed updates? Are other team members involved in content maintenance decisions? And will your client be able to deal with the design and development needs of the site as the site’s purpose grows? Join us as we work together in this hands-on workshop to start taking better care of our web projects by thinking…
I’ve started a little project management newsletter called DPM(ish)—I’ve been wanting to do it for months, and finally went for it. We’re a few issues in and I’ve been sharing all of my mostly-project management thoughts, links, and news there. I wrote a bit more about what the newsletter content and why I’m writing it on my newsletter page, but I wanted to share more backstory here. I love a good newsletter, and have been pumped at the recent abundance of interesting, personal, and niche newsletters that are popping up out of simple platforms like TinyLetter and slightly-less-simple platforms like MailChimp. It’s fun to read through personal or educational thoughts from people regarding their work, daily lives, or interests that we all share…
As most of my friends/fam know, I’ve spent the last three or so years moving all over at a somewhat frantic pace (god knows my mail can’t keep up with me!). It was all spurred on after a hasty and messy breakup, moving home to recoup and then moving into my first—and most beautiful—apartment. I lived in downtown historic Troy, NY across the street from my best friend, down the road from my favorite yoga studio, and in a building full of happy, amazing women who I became good friends with over time. After that I jetted off to live in San Antonio for a month with my sister, brother-in-law, and their corgi; decided I wanted to move there more…
Have you ever taken over a project and realized you don’t know where to find the SOW or deliverables at all? What about all those times you’ve picked a project back up after launch to add a feature and had to do your best impression of Sherlock Holmes to dig out what went down on the project before it launched? If you’ve experienced these things, then you’ve experienced project management debt. The idea of content debt and technical debt are decently well-known in the world of web projects. Technical debt refers to the extra work that builds up as a result of code that’s implemented due to the ease (in time or practice), rather than implementing the overall best solution.…