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MMS: The Muscle Behind the Life Time Fitness Machine

July 8, 2002
By James Hutchinson

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	Introduction
	The Building Blocks
	Onward and Upward
	Environmental Concerns
	Web Services Glossary
	From the Ground Up
	Related Sites
	Best Practices

Some of the lessons life time learned are universal:

• Get your operations and development groups talking regularly. It'll save you time and money.

• Invest in a solid test environment. Before rolling technology solutions into production, you must put them through their paces.

• Train the users. The only way to prevent a tsunami of support calls is to prepare the tech consumers.

• Crawl before you run. When launching an enterprisewide solution, start small. Pick a group willing to iron out the kinks with you.

• Get everyone from end users to the CEO to buy into IT initiatives by putting technology in terms they understand.

• Don't take on every project; it's OK to say "no" as long as the affected lines of business understand why. If possible, present workarounds and offer a time line for re-evaluating the need.