Had a client remind me of this today, folks….anyone who signed up by a certain date got up to a $50 theme for free. Becky has pointed out that all of this recent wave of clients did receive the perk.
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DB
I’d like to put a scheduled timeline to our STWP projects.
There are tasks in each of our projects that we can control (such as getting the development environment set up), and then other tasks that are under the client’s control (theme choice, content creation–IF they are the ones creating it).
In all the client engagements I’ve managed at IBM, there was a project plan that had due dates for each task. Did we always make it? No. Did we get it done faster and with less cost because there was an expectation that we’d hit those dates? Yes.
Most of us respond better to a timeline, and our clients will, too. If we lay out a schedule clearly, and let them know when each of their tasks are DUE, we will get better response from them.
I’d like for us to hold a workshop where we put a schedule in place for the entire standard project. We’ll choose a fictitious start date (like Jan 15th) and then determine all other dates from there. This will be added to the project template so that you can enter a real date for a kickoff meeting and then everything will flow from there.
This schedule can then be the basis for setting client expectations after the kickoff meeting.
Thoughts?
In the template currently on LGED can we input estimated time to tasks before this workshop – if so, how can i do it? When I enter tasks currently (the old school CW way) I always put in an estimated time guideline for the developer. If this has already been done, where can I see it because when I look at the template currently it lists tasks not yet categorized. Still learning …..
I’m not sure. Can you ask Meagan? Maybe the two of you can put your heads together and see if it can be done.
Using Firefox Browser
1. Pull up the website you would like to know the theme being used (must be a wordpress site)
2. At the top left, use the pull down on the Firefox icon.
3. Select web developer
4. Select page source
5. Now click Cntl F (find) which will appear at bottom left.
6. Type in the word Theme and it will highlight the word theme in the body of page.
7. Next to the word theme will be the name of theme used.
Hope this is helpful….
another possibility would be inspecting the sources and looking for the main css stylesheet: http://i.imgur.com/MymamBz.png
The purpose of the PC (and other soon to come) workshops is that we’ll use these to identify areas needing improvements, figure out solutions together, implement them, and in this way, build our processes and procedures so that we all have what we need to do our jobs well!
These workshop will follow a process I learned from Chet Holmes (great book – The Ultimate Sales Machine). If you’re interested in the workshop process, only, read Chapter 3.
For the first meeting (on December 5th) we’ll do this:
Topics that the team has already identified and already scheduled (note that after the start of our meeting, we may no longer feel that these are the top issues based on progress over the last couple of weeks, but we can also stick to this if it makes sense)
Thanks, in advance, for all of your genius help in making us rock as a company!
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Juliette Cook are discussing. 
Juan Villegas is discussing. 
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