Having recently joined Chameleon Net as Head of Operations I was asked whether I could write a short blog to talk about my first impressions of the company and talk a bit about my role here.

Well, this is my second month here and so far, so good.  I’ve been really impressed at the type of projects the company is involved with, the different work being carried out within these projects and the internal teams themselves.  I’ve worked in companies that try to offer web development or e-marketing services before, but not one that offers all these services in-house and successfully to such a wide array of clients.

The challenge for me now is to see how we maintain and handle growth within the company as the company increases.  The main things I'm going to be focusing on in the next few months are looking at how we run projects, different project structures/methodologies, and also how we handle our release process.

In any company projects are run in different ways, but there are common themes that run throughout any project - communication, organisation, and planning.  It's important that if we want to deliver successful projects we look at how we handle all types of project from the pre-sales process to client sign off and I'm going to be running internal workshops as well as speak to our clients to see what we can do to improve.

As well as having used very traditional waterfall project methodologies to run projects, I've also used the SCRUM project methodology which is something I'd like us to explore here.  By its nature it's a highly flexible form of project management where projects are broken down in to smaller forms and teams work on tasks together to ensure quicker delivery times.  It's something I think that could benefit our internal teams/clients here.

Release management is another area I will be looking at.  I'd like to see how we communicate with our clients when carrying out new releases, how the communication for this process happens internally, as well as how best we document all work being carried out.

There's a lot to work on, I better get back to it now!!

Cheers

Tim