Michael, <--- chief cook and bottle washer, floor sweeper, garbage collector and birdie feeder. Oh. Let's not forget about the baking of Gel's muffins. :) No, seriously, my partner and I have a good system worked out. He does the books, maintains a couple of sites, does all accounts payable and receivable and does some marketing. Also, if we get a project and we both have the time, we'll work on it together to get it done. I handle some marketing as well, maintaining customer relationships, looking for new opportunities as well as keeping my skills sharp and learning new things. I also maintain our personal websites, a few non-profit freebie sites, set up email accounts, ftp accounts, etc, and troubleshoot any software or hardware problems. Since we are just a small, growing company, we try to keep most of the work in-house. I come from a graphics background as well, so I always do the look and feel, and then the backend as well if I have the time. If I don't, we have different consultants that we contract the work to. A DBA/VB programmer, 2 CF programmers and an ASP programmer. It took a while to find them but they do really good work. We also have an IT person we can count on in a crunch. I also finally found a fantastic graphics guy who now does most of the artwork. He is very fluent in HTML and I have also just taught him the ins-and-outs of basic ColdFusion, so when he's laying out pages, he's got our best interests at heart. Our number one rule though, below having fun with what we do, is COMMUNICATION. And I don't care how trivial it is, if it's a problem or even if it's something good, the communication between your team members and your customers is key. Without it, forget it. We maintain very close contacts with all of our customers and consultants and we are always accessible by phone for anything. Overall, I probably stretch myself a little thin, but I'm a Virgo and I like things to be perfect, and I like to keep an eye on everything, so I don't always accomplish what's on my list in a given day. Hope that sheds some light, Erika "There are two great rules of life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less an exception to the general rule." - Samuel Butler IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above & may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, who are are rectitudinous, who have no sense of humor or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorized either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. Unless the word "rectitudinous" has been used in its correct context somewhere other than in this warning, it does not have any legal or grammatical use & may be ignored. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this e-mail, although the cat downstairs wants to be a football. Those of you with an overwhelming fear of the unknown will be gratified to learn that there is no hidden message revealed by reading this warning backwards, so just ignore that Alert Notice from Microsoft. However, by eating several blueberry muffins all at once, washed down with a couple cans of Red Bull, you can ensure that no harm befalls you & your pets. If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg & egg whites, aresenic and vanilla flavoring, whisk & place in a warm oven for 40 minutes. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 1:28 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Roles I am just kinda curious what type of different roles people here play. Do you do the programming, web layout, system admin, db admin, managers...or are the functions split up, that kinda of stuff. I am just trying to learn different ways people have their group/team. Trying to get the most out of people without stretching them to thin.... Me, I do everything which in my mind is too much...I'd like someone to handle the content and someone else handle the db admin...so I can focus on the apps themselves....... Whats your team like? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
