Project Management

I tried to post this up last week, but Blogger was down. In the meantime, as these things happen, everything has changed, so what I'm about to post up is now out of date, but I still would like to put it up here for the record.

This post is all about Project Management. After an online meeting with Leora, we wanted to create a bit more order for the project's stages. We had been working on deadlines, but I think we were both making the mistake of thinking one another had other elements already planned. So, we did the planning together.

This is one of the HUGE benefits of doing this research: how designers and curators work together to plan the project is of vital importance, and experience is the best teacher in this case. Admittedly, I had assumed there were aspects to the planning that were in the realm of curator, but it is more constructive to make a plan if one is not already at hand, than make assumptions about what people have or have not done.

Firstly, the difficulty with this project lies in the fact that it is being collaborated on by people across the globe, which is fine if people are responsive, potentially disastrous if they're not. Because of this, having a plan that it shared with everyone will keep track of the deadlines, and also list all elements needed to complete the project. I created a list of every panel (which has since changed, and will be updated later today), what elements it needs (i.e English text, Bosnian  text and image) and whether or not we have it. It looks like this:

Preliminary list of elements needed before design starts on all panels.

Leora also needed a layout of the panels for the printers, so that they would be constructed in the right sequence. I created this layout:

Sequence of panels (plan).

These two documents will be updated today, as well as a third document that will list all deadlines.