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But Where Is ‘There?’

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I used to console one of my teams by saying “Don’t worry, we’ll get there.” It seemed like a cliché statement but usually conveyed the upbeat optimism often needed by a project manager. While I recognized there were obstacles and challenges, it always seemed like a natural way to keep up everyone’s spirits in the face of tasks that continued to pile on.

Until one day after saying this phrase, one of my team members said, “But where is ‘there?’” He was a bit of a philosopher, so we all had a good laugh at the existential question.

Getting there is the goal. Getting there can also be the journey. Getting all the website content migrated is a “there” in my mind. With over 6,000 webpages, “there” can seem like a distant star.

Getting “there” one page at a time. [Read more…]

Building a Website One Block at a Time

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Santa was very good to me.  I received the Guggenheim Museum and the Women of NASA LEGO sets. So many little tiny pieces! However, the journey to completion will provide the most fun and probably some frustration.

Construction takes planning. The Women of NASA set has 231 pieces and the Guggenheim has 744 pieces and a 40-page guide! The first task is to sort the pieces by color and then by shape. Everything from that point starts with assembling the base and working my way up.

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To Train or Not to Train, Is Not the Question

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Having worked as a trainer and educator for a large part of my professional and volunteer life, I can say, with 100 percent certainty, that we all need a little training now and then.

It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained. -Queen Elizabeth II

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A Look Back…and Forward

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As this will be the last post before Winter Break and the end of 2018, let’s take a look back over the last several months. Pour yourself a virtual toddy, throw a log on the fire and reflect on what has been accomplished.

Website Refresh: We have refreshed content, revitalized pages and transformed sites across the student-facing galaxy this fall. By the time you read this, these pages will be showing off their fresh new look and feel: [Read more…]

Training Time

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In order to form a more perfect website, the UTC web team and colleagues from across campus, including the Library and Information Technology, will be participating in a series of training workshops.

Lee Walker, a local Drupal expert with Code Journeymen, kicks off the workshops this week, Dec. 10-14.  Lee’s workshops are intended for those with technical skill sets and who will be supporting the Drupal content migration and managing the system and coding environments.

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It Always Starts Small

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It’s called Scope Creep. It happens when someone says ‘we need a new dishwasher’ and seven months later, after walls have been removed, new cabinets have been set in place and new appliances hooked up, that you realize the $900 dishwasher cost way more and took a lot more time. Classic scope creep!

Most project managers recognize scope creep is happening when someone says, ‘Well, while we’re doing this anyway, let’s <fill in the blank>.’

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What is migration?

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Birds definitely do it. Bees and educated fleas might do it.

I can surely state that data definitely…migrates. In that old song the metaphor referred more to falling in love than moving software and data around, but the concept of migration applies. Software and data don’t fly south for the winter, but they can fly to another location and those in information technology refer to this as a ‘migration.’

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