Why Web projects Can Stall and How to get them out of the Gate::ExtremeMarkover Update : Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Why Web Projects Can Stall and How to get them out of the Gate : Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
If you’ve been following along with the ExtremeMarkover initiative for awhile then you may have asked yourself why the delay in getting this project through to completion.
To that end, the title of today’s post is “why Web projects can stall and how to get them out of the gate”. Before I get into the detail, let’s revisit the primary objectives of the goals of the ExtremeMarkover initiative. The primary goals of the ExtremeMarkover initiative include:
*Supporting the non-profit community with a website makeover.
*Documenting the project with an educational perspective for what we hope will be to the benefit of the profession, students studying web design, those that teach. I’m also hopeful that in turn that we can educate the customers we serve as well.
The title seems of today’s post seems appropriate enough because the project to Markover the Community Voices website was delayed. Also, the vast majority of IT projects fail. In fact, 86% by some estimates and we want to avoid that here.
As an FYI, and in the interest of education, this particular project was delayed because a lack of communication and understanding. For example,
* As the project lead, I didn’t know that the current Community Voices website is hosted on Intuits “Homestead” template base and as a result of know one telling me I couldn’t access files on the server
* Some basic assumptions were made on my part that my co lead knew the topic well enough to give me the heads up that I couldn’t access the site by FTP
The end result was not being to post Analytics code that ultimately delayed the project for months.
To support the conversation, I’ve called on the support of Jeri A Hastava, Independent We professional from Leap of Faith Web Design Cloverdale, CA.
Jeri is familiar with the ExtremeMarkover and the goals of the initiative. For the benefits of the subscribers and for those following along I asked Jeri to respond to the situation and if this ever happen to her and what did she did about it? <
