{"id":4240,"date":"2012-07-10T07:13:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T12:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2012-07-05T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T21:16:13","slug":"how-one-it-department-completed-a-1000-hour-project-in-300-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/how-one-it-department-completed-a-1000-hour-project-in-300-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"How one IT department completed a 1,000-hour project in 300 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/SaveTime.jpg\" alt=\"Save Time\" title=\"SaveTime\" width=\"76\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-728\" \/>Here\u2019s an inspirational story for any IT department facing impossible project deadlines. It\u2019s about an IT department that had a huge web development project with an immovable deadline&#8230;but faced one big problem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>They weren\u2019t sure how they were going to do it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They estimated that it would take 1,000 hours, but with only one web developer on staff, completing the project on time seemed impossible.  <\/p>\n<p>What did they do? They found a way to let the rest of their staff develop web applications, and managed to complete the project in just 300 hours. To learn how, you can <a onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Blog', 'Inside Link', '20120709_HowITDepartmentCompleted1000HourProject300hours']);\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/customers\/Boone.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: red; font-weight: bold;\">read the whole story right here<\/span><\/a>.<a name=\"20120709\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an inspirational story for any IT department facing impossible project deadlines. It\u2019s about an IT department that had a huge web development project with an immovable deadline&#8230;but faced one big problem. They weren\u2019t sure how they were going to do it. They estimated that it would take 1,000 hours, but with only one web &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/how-one-it-department-completed-a-1000-hour-project-in-300-hours\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How one IT department completed a 1,000-hour project in 300 hours<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","slim_seo":{"title":"How one IT department completed a 1,000-hour project in 300 hours - mrc&#039;s Cup of Joe Blog","description":"Here\u2019s an inspirational story for any IT department facing impossible project deadlines. It\u2019s about an IT department that had a huge web development project wit"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-4240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-save-time","tag-web-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4272,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions\/4272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrc-productivity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}