New Team Members

We have to welcome 3 new team members.

A Belated one to Alex Milosavljivic who joined 4 weeks ago.

And two new starts today Paul McGrath as a Business Analyst and Arpana as the 2nd Project Manager at Wunderman.

Welcome to the ENGInE Team, you dont know what you have let yourself in for

Name Competition

I almost forgot we need to come up with a name for the Help Me Choose, Compare-o-tron-a-matic thingermy bob:

Current suggestions are:

Help Me Choose
Inspire Me
Inspire-o-tron
Compare-o-tron

Answers on a comment or email please

Bad week, Good week

The bad news is that we have missed a deliverable of the creative content for the CMS. Even worse news is that it looks like bad communication is the problem again. On top of this there is a problem that the dynamic content creation of fatwire means that Akamai cache will not shield us from all the traffic requests.

Well after that I hear you ask whats the good news.

Well Ford IT and Wunderman have been tasked to recoup the lost time for the deliverable miss. Initial discusssions are looking promising. The architects will come up with a plan to overcome the cacheing issue.

On top of this we have made some good steps forward in the creative look of the web site and been told to come out of the comfort zone of blocks and grey and move forward with more colours and circles. Even the suggestion of the logo moving was not shot down in flames, but I dont know anyone who wants to take this Mark.

I'm a Lady don't you know

I have the dubious honour of being Ann while she is away on Holiday.

Handing over the reins

I'm off on holiday for a bit (and it is holiday not 'gardening leave').

I thought we could experiment while I'm away. Other authors may be posting to this blog.

This is probably a good thing. You'll have a change in perspective and a change in style too.

In the background

Now we've started to focus our attention on the fluffy stuff it's easy to forget the other work that's going on.

Choose-O-Tron-O-Matic Explorer user experience is finished, Dealer Locator specification is starting, data modelling for Features and Specs is on-going, technical specifications are emerging.

A project update has been delievered to colleagues in France, Germany, Spain, FCSD. Follow up meetings are being arranged where necessary.

The teams aren't idle. In fact things are a little stressful at times, so I went and bought my own Stress Reduction Kit.

Good news, bad news

Someone used the meebo chat widget to ask "what's the point of going online if the content is sooooooo out of date?"

Well do you want to hear the bad news as well as the good news?

The last three weeks have been occupied with the creative for the navigation and the homepage.

Navigation is pretty much nailed and homepage is almost there. The great news is that these look amazing.

OK, so what's the bad news? You know what, I don't want to tell you the bad news because it'll depress both of us.