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Building a web team
Many moons ago I was responsible for a web team. The way we went about growing was as we needed. We wanted to have more control over our development, so we hired a developer. We wanted to create more creative content, so we hired a couple of editors. We wanted to have significant more content so we invented the posts of content contributors.
It was a very organic process, but it left me wondering if there was a better way. Lo and behold Kevin Cornell has written a great article on manning a web team over at A List Apart. Wish he had written it a couple of years ago. Having a strategy for the web, getting management buy in and planning a team around this, it sounds so simple, almost like common sense.
To be honest, I don’t think the organic approach was poor, it fit our purpose at the time. That is we didn’t know what our purpose was. But if you do know what your trying to achieve, a little bit of planning is a good way to build the right web team.
