Project Management - for Interactivity Project Management

 What are your client's communication goals?  How useful is your design solution?  Does it really make any difference? Here are some questions to ponder:

Who is a project manager? Someone who can PLAN. Someone who is PROACTIVE. Someone who is PRAGMATIC or PRACTICAL.

Who is a project manager? Meets with a clients and gathers requirements. Documents a project scope and establishes goals & strategies. Coordinates proposal writing. Selects and establishes a process for completing the project. Develops structure, timelines, budgets, and resource allocation. Selects and manages a team of people.

Who is a project manager? Completion of the creative brief & functional specifications. Guide and document the production of the project. Ensures proper testing and quality assurance is completed. Communicate status with clients and internal teams. Manages and educates the client throughout the process. Motivates the team and resolves conflict during the project. Documents, records, and archives paper & electronic files.

Who is a project manager? Adaptive and flexible. Problem-solvers. Solution-oriented. Positive and upbeat. Detail-oriented. Practical. Calm under pressure. Good communicators.

Project Management - Production Triangle

The success or failure of a project is determined by three interdependent factors: time, cost, and quality Or schedule, budget, scope

Project Management - Production Triangle

Time is the hours incurred in completing the project. Deadlines for projects are hard and fast. Clients insist they cannot be changed. This is typically because clients need the services for a product launch or an advertising campaign. For most projects, the final delivery date is carved in stone. Time

Project Management - Production Triangle Cost is the money value of people's time invested in the project. Each project will incur outside costs. Material costs can include software, rental of equipment, licensing rights, outside vendors, contract workers and the cost of coffee and donuts for morning client/project meetings. Cost

Project Management - Production Triangle Quality is often an intangible. It can be designed at the sophistication of the design, features, and functionality. Low-quality projects have little functionality, crude interfaces, error prone, not practical or user friendly. High-quality products have all the bells and whistles, outstanding functionality, usability, no bugs, no down time or "blue screens of death." Quality

Project Management - Production Triangle Quality, Time and Cost have a “co-dependency” relationship.

Project Management - Production Triangle When we look at the three factors of production, there are factors that can effect – quality, time and cost. These factors are: Internal client pressures Internal resource constraints Influences of the markets or industry "Acts of God"

Project Management – Phase One The eight steps involved in project development are: 1.Identify problems, issues and audience. 2.Set priorities. 3.Set goals and objectives. 4.Assess resources. 5.Form a plan of action and determine job assignments. 6.Determine content and treatment. 7.Implement the plan. 8.Evaluate results.

Project Management – Phase One Assessing Client Needs – Analysis What exactly are we doing? Why was this project initiated? What are the company’s goals for the project? What is the competition doing?

Project Management – Phase One User analysis helps in finding out: As much as you can about the user (i.e. designing for your mom) How much the user does and does not know about the subject matter (prior knowledge). The user's frame of reference. The degree of software and hardware expertise the user has to comfortably use and derive the benefit from the multimedia experience.