From the course: Scheduling for Creatives
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Creating a balanced workflow
- In order to make your schedule work, it's important to remember the cast of characters that exist. There's you, your team, your vendors, your clients, and your life. To create a balance, it's important to remember the word flow and workflow. Before doing any actual scheduling, visualize the flow of a project from end to end. Take into account all the parties who need to be involved and at what time and space each will need to do their part and contribute. Pay attention to the particular type of job you're doing so you can build an incidental cushion that that type of job may require on a regular basis. For example, on a web project, time is often needed to populate some if not all of the site with live content. That seldom tends to go without discovering there's some content missing or an area of the site that wasn't developed the way it needs to be. Allowing some space for that sort of thing will help the overall flow when unexpected things come up. Do your best to plan for those…
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