Be choosy – look for good tech people

Having underqualified people responsible for important church technology issues is a risk. Sometimes people volunteer for more than they should and sometimes church leaders push people into roles for which they lack experience, ability, or interest.

Jim Walton over at Church Tech Matters has a good little article with some comments about getting the right people in the right seats on your church tech bus. One excellent point he makes is that “being a computer guy does not mean expert at everything technical.”

I think some good pointers are:

• Don’t necessarily hand the keys to the first person who volunteers
• Consider a person’s past experience, current situation, and passion
• Build a team – a single point of failure is always a risk in the computer world

I wonder how many church tech people feel like this guy: “there is still the nagging fear the one day I’ll be exposed as the fraud that I am and the whole pack of cards I’ve built will come tumbling down.”.