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2009
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Transition 2.0 (part 2): Evolution of the RCS Management Team

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created on Thu, 2009-06-25 13:58

Over the past five years at Raincity Studios, we've built a talented and diverse team of drupalers, open sourcers, travelers, photographers, bloggers, vloggers, innovators, cultural transformers, and social media experimenters.   We've developed and hosted hundreds of websites and in many cases, we've helped our clients achieve their goals.  We've also helped train hundreds of drupal developers and played an active role in helping grow the drupal community around the world. 

We're very proud of our track record, but we're the first to acknowledge that we've also made mistakes along the way.  We've seen projects fail because we weren't being direct about the poor business model or lack of planning. We've seen projects go broke through mismanagement and we've learned many valuable lessons about cost control, communication, project management and accountability. We've watched some communities flourish while others turned into ghost towns.  All of this has taught us a lot about business development, sustainability and our strengths and weaknesses as a studio.

It's also taught us that you can't just keep doing things the same way.  Just as the same development solution is not perfect for every client, the same operational model is not the right fit for every business.  More importantly, we've learned that our operational model needs to be adaptable to accommodate the changing nature and scale of our business.   We've always prided ourselves on being an agile and innovative company and we've never wanted to get too comfortable with our success, so we've been taking practical steps to restructure our operational model and reorganize our offerings.  We've been researching the best way to go about doing this by consulting with trusted friends and individuals for whom we have great respect.  We're very grateful for the advice and support they have provided us and it's made us optimistic about the possibilities we can create for ourselves in the future. 

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