Project Management Pitch and Reflection

Hey everyone, 

Just thought I would share with you the section of the pitch that I primarily worked on and reflect on it a little.

Our way of seeing project management: 

As we are all co-existing as a team, we have decided that everyone should and must help each other with their specific roles, and obviously the roles will overlap, but we have assigned a “main” role for all group members based on their individual interests and strengths. So:

-      Mel’s main focus will be the video content. We plan to film several of our interviews, so Mel will be in charge of this and will oversee the creation of other videos, such as an introductory video to the topic, which we plan to use on our feature.

-      Although everyone will be writing, Paul will be the writing editor who will ensure that all our content fits together well, stays focused on our angle, and makes sense.

-      Ash will focus on photography and graphics, a significant part of our feature.

-      We’ll all be uploading our content on Word Press, but Nicola will be our head “tech girl”

-      And I’m the project manager, basically controlling everything…haha jokes, but I’ll make sure we’re all on target with our tasks, and be mainly responsible for things like setting up interviews.

As well as this, we’ll all be individually working on our own “journeys”, and we’ll divide up the more investigative articles between us so everyone has one article as their main focus, although we’ll aim to have at least two or three of us present at each interview.

From here, next week we will continue researching and finalising ideas for specific parts of the feature, as well as forming a list of people to approach for interviews. 

We’ll then approach them and try to set up interviews over the next few weeks. 

We’re going to focus mainly on information gathering and writing for the next three weeks, and the three weeks after that will focus on web design, upload and editing. 

Reflection:

In retrospect our plan is not as "broken down" as some other group's plans were for the pitch, but that is primarily because we didn't want to confuse everyone. We are definitely on target to complete our goals on time, and have since come up with a more detailed project management scheme that is probably a little too long-winded for posting here. :) 

Paul