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What is Project Management?

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Hope is not a plan.

I hope it doesn’t rain today, but I plan to take my umbrella just in case.

At the heart of project management is a hope or dream that, whatever the outcome, it will be positive and timely. The larger the project (dictated by number of people involved, amount of time needed to complete the project or general complexity of achieving the project goal), the more “project management” is needed.

Millions of projects are undertaken each year with little more than the final goal in mind.  Many of those will reach the goal with little more than an Excel spreadsheet of tasks and a person with the drive to see the mission accomplished.

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What’s the UTC Website Refresh Process?

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Similar to Cajun cooking, where the common understanding is that first you make a roux, before we can migrate to a new CMS, we need to make an inventory.

Simply moving out-of-date content or pages that aren’t working properly would lead to prolonged clean-up in the long run. The website refresh phase of improvement to utc.edu focuses on the clean-up and reorganization of existing content.

To begin the process, we are starting with sites that focus most heavily on students.

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What Is a Content Management System?

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Everything you see on any given website could be considered “content.”

From text to headers and footers, article titles, images, tags, tabs, comment boxes, links to other pages, boxes, calendars, charts and graphs—every piece of information has a unique placement to create the overall design of the page. A content management system, or CMS, is behind all of it, facilitating placement through the creation of templates.

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Website Improvements Underway

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It has been five years since the last redesign and content management system for the University’s website was upgraded. UTC.edu is overdue for improvement.

The improvements will take several months but result in a much better-functioning site; for example:

  • It will target our student recruitment market
  • It will make the site more accessible, and ADA compliant
  • It will become effectively viewable on mobile devices
  • It will greatly enhance the user experience and include simpler content management and archiving for editors campus wide

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