Web product development reflections

Hello! Over the past 18 months I've been working on developing a new product for web delivery at my current job at ASHA. Their current web programs were primarily text based page turners with video, animation and some sound clips. They were really good page turners though and still stand up under today's standard. Technology and web development is moving at light speed these days. New products, services, delivery methods, expected norms, etc. are emerging every day. In order to keep our web programs fresh we needed to update our tools. We reviewed many "rapid" development tools for e-learning and choose Articulate Presenter. This product is an add on for PowerPoint with a strong support community of users as well alot of support from the staff at the company themselves. We did some preliminary testing and found this to be a good fit for our web programs. We intended to use one program as a pilot for the implementing our new process but scheduling issues caused five programs to be in development in parellel. This caused many problems as we were trying to develop checklist and templates for all stages (pre, production, post) to make the process more streamlined. The production was complete on all five programs by mid-December 2007. The post production has taken months as these were not the only projects assigned to staff members during this time period. Projects with time sensative deadlines, mainly "live" offerings, had to take priority. We are finally on track for having our first program ready for sale sometime in June. This process has been stressful. But I'll save that for another blog entry sometime. I'm hoping to blog at least twice a week again now that my workload is almost caught up.