{"id":13,"date":"2020-06-28T18:26:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T18:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectconnections.com\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2023-08-03T20:42:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T20:42:44","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projectconnections.com\/?page_id=13","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ProjectConnections.com originally launched in 2000.  I started the site, along with a great team of fellow project and technical managers, because we had been thrown into the role ourselves with basically no training or guidance &#8211; which seemed, well, kinda wrong, and pretty inefficient, too &#8211; and not a lot of fun. We wanted to do a great job!  Lead our projects to success!  But we had so many how-to questions&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/projectconnections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ProjConn-bluebar-cropped.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projectconnections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ProjConn-bluebar-cropped.png 682w, https:\/\/projectconnections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ProjConn-bluebar-cropped-300x62.png 300w, https:\/\/projectconnections.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ProjConn-bluebar-cropped-680x141.png 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>So the site was born &#8211; <\/strong>with practical templates, guidelines, articles, a blog full of advice from fellow PMs, and other resources such as interviews and case studies. The goal was to answer the &#8220;real world&#8221; questions &#8211; get beyond theory to &#8220;no, really, how DO I do this, in THIS particular environment, this particular type of project, this organization and this team?  What practical techniques do experienced PMs already know?  What real world advice and tips would they give?&#8221;   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The site was active through mid 2020. <\/strong> Unfortunately, for various reasons I had to make the decision to discontinue our service then.   (I also had thoughts on bringing back a refreshed service after a hiatus, but life then transpired and we are highly unlikely to be back.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for visiting, and <strong>if  you have questions, or are looking for advice or something specific<\/strong> &#8211;<strong> please feel free to reach out and ask me.  <\/strong>If I can help, I will!   <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:cinda@projectconnections.com\" target=\"_blank\">cinda@projectconnections.com<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ProjectConnections.com originally launched in 2000. I started the site, along with a great team of fellow project and technical managers, because we had been thrown into the role ourselves with basically no training or guidance &#8211; which seemed, well, kinda wrong, and pretty inefficient, too &#8211; and not a lot of fun. We wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectconnections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectconnections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectconnections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectconnections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectconnections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/projectconnections.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectconnections.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}