Thoughts on people, project, and business management from a Digital Producer
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Having a retrospective (AKA wash-up, post mortem) at the end of a project is a good way to learn from your experience as a project team, to examine what went well, what didn’t go well, what could’ve been done differently in hindsight. There is a fine balance in the discussions that form a retrospective —… [continue]
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I’ve been a long-time MasterChef fan, and love seeing all these amazing dishes being created, but the episode I always most look forward to each week is the Team Challenge. I think it’s my favourite because it relates to something I think about all the time — how, no matter how good your individual team… [continue]
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The other day I ran into one of our regular freelance developers as he was heading out to lunch, and I asked him how things were going on the project that he was working on. He said it wasn’t going as smoothly as he expected, but it wasn’t his place to say anything — he’s… [continue]
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Estimating well is important because estimates form the foundations of any project plan — it affects the costing stage where you define the budget, and the scheduling stage where you plan the execution. Estimating accurately is mostly dependent on experience, but aiming to be precise is often a good start. There is less chance of… [continue]
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Some of the places I’ve worked have had very well-defined and strict processes — every Tuesday there is a producer team meeting; resourcing requirements have to be submitted by 12 noon on Thursday for the following week or you won’t have anyone to do the work you need done; you can’t send anything to the… [continue]