Learning from my son about life

My son has played in his last football game. He will be graduating from High School this year. The Valley Christian Trojans won the 2A State Championship...what a year! I have learned alot watching him play, expecially about team dynamics and growing through struggles. I have seen God work in our lives this year. I learned that we can learn many "life" lessons from football, and probably any team sport. I will always charish this time in my son's life.

Lessons learned from a football addict

This is high school football season and I am addicted to watching #70 play, my son, on the Trojan offensive line for Valley Christian. The team is 6-1 and playing well. I am consumed this year on learning all the stats about 2A football. I am also re-learning the basics like "it takes a team to win". It's odd how injuries, penalties and luck play into a championship team.

How is your IT Team? Are you all working from the same playbook? Are odd things keeping you team from being a championship IT team for your church?

Learning from our IT projects

We have just finished writing our children's checkin module for Arena CHMS. This was a big project and took a lot of work by our entire IT team. I think it's is easy for us to just move on to the next project. But I think there are lots of important things to learn after a projects completed. I think teams should discuss "lessons learned" from projects in order to grow as a group. For example, we learned that our new ONTIME Agile software programming tool was invalueable to our team. It is now a "best practice" for our team to stop and write down what we have learned from our completed projects.