Great to hear from you!

Alas, we still haven’t really gotten deep into redesign. We keep hovering on the edges, and then one thing or another happens to slow us down (e.g. illness in the family). And the truth is our site is adequate, which undercuts some of our motivation.

To answer your question, I’ve used MS Project too, but it seems like a semi when most churches just need a pick-up truck. Basecamp is a great alternative if your church can afford it. For me, just using spreadsheets works very well, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it does for you too.

It looks to me like your site has benefited from your process — I like a lot of things about it. I don’t remember, of course, what it looked like before. I’m wondering if you have written any more about your process; this page is called “Step 1 the kickoff”. Perhaps Steps 2 etc. would be helpful to us also.

One specific question: did you use, or do you have suggestions for, a way to organize timeline and task dependencies? I’m not a Project Management expert, although I have used MS Project at work in the dim past. That would definitely be overkill here (no Gantt charts needed). Something more like your Excel spreadsheet roadmap might be just right.

Thanks again,
Don