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Project Management

This blogpost contains all my project management for this project! This includes things like planners, to do lists, tracking tasks and overall organisation. 

Organisation and Time Management are two of the biggest problems I struggle with when working on ant task big or small. I often procrastinate many tasks and up giving myself lots of work to complete within a very short amount of time. This becomes extra difficult when I have to manage multiple projects at once, as well as life outside of uni. However, since this is something I struggle with so much I really want to try and improve in this area! For this specific project, I am going to plan and try very hard to keep everything organised and not fall too behind and leave myself rushing to complete my work.

In order to fulfil these goals, I will be creating a Miro Board to track all important information, as well as writes notes and create To Do lists and calendars to track my work progress. Each week, I will be creating weekly schedules and To Do Lists for myself to follow in order to stay on top of my work. Over the last few projects and work I've done, I have learnt that daily/weekly to-do lists really help me to work, as well as taking into consideration what times I work best at. For example, I feel I work best between the hours of 10am-5pm, so I will plan my schedules around these times, making sure I do not try and force myself to do lots of work outside of my productive bubble or overwork myself without breaks.

Miro Board

To help me keep organised, I created a Miro Board! This board contained information about each of my projects and what I did to do for each of them. I also planned out what I would do on specific days, In order to balance all of my projects at once. I get quite overwhelmed with busy workloads so its best for me to plan things out for every single day, so I can prepare myself for what I have to do and set myself an internal deadline for when it needs to be completed by.



To Do Lists

These specific boards contained a list of every task I needed to do, as well as a weekly schedule for this project. I separated them into two sections, for each half of the project to help myself to not overwhelm myself with work. I created A weekly schedule, which told me how many weeks I had, what days the weeks lasted to and from, what I wanted to complete for that specific week, and any other important information that i needed to add. I also created two to do lists, one for design and drawing work and the other for written work. I constantly updated these to do lists while I worked on and completed tasks I had set, as well as adding more if needed as I went along.


Weekly Schedule

As well as making weekly schedules on my Miro Board, I also made a template on Canva. I used this planner to mark down when summative and formatives where due, to allow myself to plan around these events. I usually don't like to work lots on the week of submissions, and I like to try and submit my work a few days before where possible to avoid stress and allow myself to relax for a few days to not burn myself out. By allowing myself to plan around when each submissions was, I made it so I would work throughout and in-between the weeks work was due to make sure I wasn't working deadline to deadline.



Weekly Planner Tasks: Part 1

Below are the weekly tasks I assigned myself for each week in order to balance out and plan ahead for my workload.


WEEK 1
  • SWOT Analysis
  • Mood board curating
  • Planning project our and scheduling

WEEK 2
  • thumbnailing and sketching
  • IP Research
  • Faction Research
  • Genre Research

WEEK 3
  • colourways and colour testing
  • feedback polls

WEEK 4
  • character sheet 1
  • catch up missing blog work

WEEK 5
  • character sheet 2
  • begin first final illustration (sketch)

WEEK 6
  • begin second final illustration (sketch)
  • review with matt (13th march)

WEEK 7
  • change work based on feedback from Matt
  • finish final illustrations

WEEK 8
  • finalise blogs and any work
  • complete all written work and scheduling
  • SUBMISSION (30th march, submit by 27th as going away for weekend)

Weekly Planner Tasks: Part 2


WEEK 1
  • thumbnailing and sketching
  • making moodboards
  • visual research
WEEK 2
  • further and finishing thumbnailing
  • colourways
WEEK 3
  • final furniture design sheet 1 (computer)
  • furniture design sheet 2 (containment tube)
  • furniture design sheet 3 (fish-bot)

WEEK 4
  • create 3D blockout
  • start final illustration sketch

WEEK 5
  • finish illustration

WEEK 6
  • write up blogs for this portion of the project
  • finish any missing work from first portion

WEEK 7
  • overview and conclusion blog
  • finish project management blog

I also planned out a quick rundown of different blogs I would be making for my blogger, and wrote down a brief list of points I would cover within my blogs to help me stay organised and make sure I knew what I was writing about as sometimes I tent to write more than is needed.

I updated my Miro Board checklists, notes and other documents frequently. I used them almost daily to keep track of my progress as I went along and to stay on top of my work. Overall for this submission, I think that my time and project management went really well. I managed to stay on top of my work and mostly stuck to my schedules, and if I didn't meet my goals for a day or something came up not allowing me to complete work for the day, I would reassign it to another day. I made sure than none of my days where full of working from morning till night so I could always allocate myself time to rest and also additional time if I couldn't finish something for when I scheduled myself for it to be done by.

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