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It’s been a couple of weeks since the last post. As you know, we’ve moved to Atlanta, Georgia, for a new beginning and new adventures. We’re looking forward to it.

Today is the 4th of July, and I thought it would be appropriate to show some patriotism. We’ll be up and publishing again on Monday. Have a great holiday weekend.

The Big Move

Monday is our big move to Atlanta–and we’re going to be heading cross country for two weeks, hitting what are, in my opinion, the prettiest and more interesting places in America.
We’re going to have a guest blogger on Level2wo.net–founding partner and world-class web and design wiz, E. Themmen. I hope you enjoy his posts.

But from my end–it’s time for the fun stuff–showing off pictures of the places we will go! Below are some pictures from the national parks we’re going to–some of which I worked at during my youth–though, truth be told, I don’t feel it was that long ago.

Enjoy!

Project Management – Steps to Success

Wikipedia’s definition of Project Management: Project Management is the discipline of planning, organizing, and managing resources to bring about the successful completion of specific project goals and objectives.

My experience lay in websites, sharepoint sites, multimedia and creative in general, but project management can apply to many different industries. Projects have a beginning and a definite end–if not, what you have going on is a process.

There are varying PM (Project Management) methods, but they primarily revolve around scope, quality, time and budget. Project Managers are professionals who make sure the project is completed, i.e., they manage the project, though they likely do not actually ‘do’ the work required towards completing the project.

• Identify sponsors and stakeholders
• Make sure you have a “Champion” in management
• Figure out the goals of the project, and the associated deliverables
• Plan
• Create a methodology
• Secure reliable resources
• Create the team that will participate
• Communicate constantly will all stakeholders
• Establish metrics that are clear and concise
• Don’t fall behind

Following the above steps doesn’t necessarily guarantee success, but it absolutely helps to make sure you’re doing your best. I’m not going to go into each of the above steps–I think they’re pretty self-explanatory, at least if you’ve managed projects in the past, even if you didn’t have the kind of success you wanted.

For more detailed information, check out the below sites:

About.com’s Management section
BNET
Project Steps
DM News
Tech Republic (A webcast; the presenters illustrate five basic steps in Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007 to create a plan for the business projects.

Wishing everyone a happy Friday, I thought I would post a few humorous pictures of advertising images from around the globe. It’s amazing how clever people in our world actually are from time to time. I hope you enjoy them.

Happy Friday!

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