Yesterday was our last day of working in our work teams. Today we started debrief, and that lasts for a few days.

A few weeks ago we had to make a tough decision. It looked like what we wanted to do with the measurements component of the movement tracker was more complicated and difficult to meet all the requirements we came up with. After some consulting with my higher-ups, we decided to solve the same problem with a combination of spreadsheets, an existing web application, and some much simpler statistics from the movement tracker. I think it's a testament to the leadership that we were able to recognize that and be agile enough to switch. We were then able to put those resources in to other areas.

I'm realizing that leadership is as much deciding what you won't do as it is deciding what you will do. And it takes effort to really stick to that when lots of voices are saying you should go in other directions. Often they're well-intentioned voices, and even are right in many ways, yet you have a plan that will get you there, and if you keep switching to every which way that sounds good you'll just go around in circles. Of course, you need to open minded and willing to switch if it really is appropriate too.

Without going in to too much detail, there's been a lot of discussion about the vision and purpose of Waterloo project, and even Campus for Christ and Power to Change as a ministry. Sometimes the product can seem at odds with developing our students. Much of this discussion has actually stemmed from the IT team leadership (my boss and I) finding the project not conducive to producing products number of reasons. I don't mean to say what we're doing is not worthwhile, or that we haven't accomplished anything. But I think we need to really have a clear purpose that lets us decide between two worthwhile things, so that we can do what we choose to do well. You can pray that we find a way to balance all this and come out in a way that honours God's call on our ministry.