Presentation given August 5th, 2010 on setting tips to improve creative freelance project estimates, contracts, client management, motivation, and basic marketing.
Games fundingforum katebooth_workforhireKate Booth
Many developers rely on work for hire projects to fund their studio and even their own games, particularly when starting out. Kate's talk outlines where to start with work for hire, how to get your first clients, how to build a brand and how to go from a meeting to a signed contract.
Poor project management can turn a promising new project into the project from hell. From tight deadlines and crushing budgets, to last minute changes that make you want to give up and open a bakery. But project management is an area you must dominate if you want to run a successful creative studio or agency. We all know what it's like when a client requests changes here, there and everywhere, but all of these little changes can add up to much bigger problems; project management hell! Don't let it happen to you.
Why Training Projects Fail:How to RecoverDavid Goodman
Learn why training projects fail through experiencing four case studies. Can a project and your relationship with your internal or external clients be recovered during a project gone wrong?
Discovery Phase [What is it and why is it important?]Stfalcon
Nowadays it’s unreasonable to start a software development project without a preliminary comprehensive analysis. Discovery phase should become an initial stage of any project you
deal with. It’s an information-gathering procedure, which brings you in-depth comprehension of the industry, the client’s business, and target audience.
Games fundingforum katebooth_workforhireKate Booth
Many developers rely on work for hire projects to fund their studio and even their own games, particularly when starting out. Kate's talk outlines where to start with work for hire, how to get your first clients, how to build a brand and how to go from a meeting to a signed contract.
Poor project management can turn a promising new project into the project from hell. From tight deadlines and crushing budgets, to last minute changes that make you want to give up and open a bakery. But project management is an area you must dominate if you want to run a successful creative studio or agency. We all know what it's like when a client requests changes here, there and everywhere, but all of these little changes can add up to much bigger problems; project management hell! Don't let it happen to you.
Why Training Projects Fail:How to RecoverDavid Goodman
Learn why training projects fail through experiencing four case studies. Can a project and your relationship with your internal or external clients be recovered during a project gone wrong?
Discovery Phase [What is it and why is it important?]Stfalcon
Nowadays it’s unreasonable to start a software development project without a preliminary comprehensive analysis. Discovery phase should become an initial stage of any project you
deal with. It’s an information-gathering procedure, which brings you in-depth comprehension of the industry, the client’s business, and target audience.
Compresses potentially months of work into a few days by start using the Design Sprint Process. Step by step, in just 4 days, rapidly solve big challenges, create new products, or improve existing ones.
Discover, Define, Deliver - a workflow to create successful digital products. STX Next
Presentation from STX Next Summit 2016 by Dominik Oślizło describing the Discover, Define, Deliver process, a rock-solid approach that ensures smooth idea-to-product transitions and radically accelerates time-to-market.
Why change code that works - On Technical Debt and RefactoringCarsten Windler
Why should you change code that works? In this presentation we'll cover why Technical debt is harmful, how you deal with existing debt and how you can prevent to pile up new debt.
CTO Universe Leadership Series: An Adult Conversation About EstimatesAggregage
Estimates are a contentious topic in software development. They have value in many cases but increasingly are fraught with peril. Most of our development teams hate providing estimates and many managers are starting to view them as unnecessary. As senior software leaders, how can we determine whether estimates are helpful or harmful to our teams?
We are excited to be joined by Beekey Cheung, a software consultant and blogger known as Professor Beekums, who has helped many leaders and teams go from fearing estimates to using them appropriately. He'll walk us through the value of estimates, how to overcome the hesitancy many have in giving them, and how to provide better estimates.
Every successful project starts with two things: a project idea and an adequate budget.
The typical costs of the development team are related to the recruitment process, payroll, hardware and licenses, of course, the office space, sick leaves, holidays and perks.
Learn how you can reduce cost and save your software project budget.
More resources on: rightinformation.com
A development process is essentially a framework for how to work together in an engineering team and the way the team works together has great impact on how well it supports the product and the organisation. Ideally, the way that the process is outlined should be aligned with the business strategy. For example, if innovation is important for your business, you need a process that supports innovation. If timely deliveries is more important, you need to adapt your process to that requirement. In this talk Bjorn will explain what the Loop54 development process looks like and give concrete examples of what effects it was designed to create and how that is manifested in the process.
Slides for presentation of Uday Gajendar's talk at Enterprise UX 2015 Conference, held in San Antonio TX, May 13-15, 2015.
Medium essay with further explanation based upon official prepared text:
https://medium.com/@udanium/the-wicked-craft-of-enterprise-ux-bad134155c09
Every team or individual encounters pitfalls that attempt to derail the success of a project. Many times, theses pitfalls can be determined prior to encountering them. With proper planning, a team can take the appropriate measure to overcome any pitfall. In this session we discuss how planning starts during the estimation process and continues until the project is launched. Planning tasks that will be covered include; project estimation, feature specifications, use cases, wireframes, architecture, and build and release planning.
10 unwritten rules can guarantee a successful designer-client collaboration. Check them out if you're a client or designer and don't forget to pass them along so others could benefit from a better feedback etiquette.
Caitlin shares with Product Anonymous how Seek have been working with Teresa Torres to improve their product management practice with continuous discovery + use of Opportunity tree's.
This slideshow demonstrates lots of ways of 'seeing' projects. Visualisation is an important tool for knowledge workers, including project
managers.
...Geoff
(www.performancepeople.com.au)
Compresses potentially months of work into a few days by start using the Design Sprint Process. Step by step, in just 4 days, rapidly solve big challenges, create new products, or improve existing ones.
Discover, Define, Deliver - a workflow to create successful digital products. STX Next
Presentation from STX Next Summit 2016 by Dominik Oślizło describing the Discover, Define, Deliver process, a rock-solid approach that ensures smooth idea-to-product transitions and radically accelerates time-to-market.
Why change code that works - On Technical Debt and RefactoringCarsten Windler
Why should you change code that works? In this presentation we'll cover why Technical debt is harmful, how you deal with existing debt and how you can prevent to pile up new debt.
CTO Universe Leadership Series: An Adult Conversation About EstimatesAggregage
Estimates are a contentious topic in software development. They have value in many cases but increasingly are fraught with peril. Most of our development teams hate providing estimates and many managers are starting to view them as unnecessary. As senior software leaders, how can we determine whether estimates are helpful or harmful to our teams?
We are excited to be joined by Beekey Cheung, a software consultant and blogger known as Professor Beekums, who has helped many leaders and teams go from fearing estimates to using them appropriately. He'll walk us through the value of estimates, how to overcome the hesitancy many have in giving them, and how to provide better estimates.
Every successful project starts with two things: a project idea and an adequate budget.
The typical costs of the development team are related to the recruitment process, payroll, hardware and licenses, of course, the office space, sick leaves, holidays and perks.
Learn how you can reduce cost and save your software project budget.
More resources on: rightinformation.com
A development process is essentially a framework for how to work together in an engineering team and the way the team works together has great impact on how well it supports the product and the organisation. Ideally, the way that the process is outlined should be aligned with the business strategy. For example, if innovation is important for your business, you need a process that supports innovation. If timely deliveries is more important, you need to adapt your process to that requirement. In this talk Bjorn will explain what the Loop54 development process looks like and give concrete examples of what effects it was designed to create and how that is manifested in the process.
Slides for presentation of Uday Gajendar's talk at Enterprise UX 2015 Conference, held in San Antonio TX, May 13-15, 2015.
Medium essay with further explanation based upon official prepared text:
https://medium.com/@udanium/the-wicked-craft-of-enterprise-ux-bad134155c09
Every team or individual encounters pitfalls that attempt to derail the success of a project. Many times, theses pitfalls can be determined prior to encountering them. With proper planning, a team can take the appropriate measure to overcome any pitfall. In this session we discuss how planning starts during the estimation process and continues until the project is launched. Planning tasks that will be covered include; project estimation, feature specifications, use cases, wireframes, architecture, and build and release planning.
10 unwritten rules can guarantee a successful designer-client collaboration. Check them out if you're a client or designer and don't forget to pass them along so others could benefit from a better feedback etiquette.
Caitlin shares with Product Anonymous how Seek have been working with Teresa Torres to improve their product management practice with continuous discovery + use of Opportunity tree's.
This slideshow demonstrates lots of ways of 'seeing' projects. Visualisation is an important tool for knowledge workers, including project
managers.
...Geoff
(www.performancepeople.com.au)
Client Retention is one of the most important aspects of every business. Becoming pro-active with clients and making sure that each business is retained, is very important for every business owner.
This is my greatest hits album of major business mistakes I've made over my career, both as a freelancer and while working within agencies of all shapes and sizes.
I presented this first at the SCAD Entrepreneurial Forum in Savannah, GA on February 18, 2011. The material is drawn from my second book, "Success by Design: The Essential Business Reference for Designers," which will be out in Fall 2012.
A structured approach to answering all the “WHAT? WHEN? WHY? WHO? HOW?”.
A scoping session and well-prepared agenda will help you manage the chaos and brainstorming, where everyone will be trying to put their two cents into the discussion.
Ideation workshop is also a great way to kick-off the project with all the parties – the client, developers, designers, project managers, and other stakeholders
Read more about the project discovery process.
In March 2010 we presented Streamtime at the Sydney Applestore - this is our keynote file for those that require it.
Streamtime is a multi-award-winning total studio management system, designed for the advertising, interactive and design industries. Whether supporting a company of two or a multi-site organisation of hundreds, Streamtime enables complete traffic and production management, signaling an end to job bags and hand-generated invoices and timesheets. From the accounts team to designers, both at their desk and, using Streamtime's iPhone or iPad application, on the road, Streamtime maximises workflow, taking productivity and creativity to new levels.
Dealing with Estimation, Uncertainty, Risk, and CommitmentTechWell
Software projects are known to have challenges with estimation, uncertainty, risk, and commitment—and the most valuable projects often carry the most risk. Other industries also encounter risk and generate value by understanding and managing that risk effectively. Todd Little explores techniques used in a number of risky businesses—product development, oil and gas exploration, investment banking, medicine, weather forecasting, and gambling—and shares what those industries have done to manage uncertainty. With studies of software development estimations and uncertainties, Todd discusses how software practitioners can learn from a better understanding of uncertainty and its dynamics. In addition, he introduces techniques and approaches to estimation and risk management including using real options and one of its key elements—understanding commitment. Take away a better understanding of the challenges of estimation and what software practitioners can do to better manage estimation, risks, and their commitments.
Need to present lean project tools and techniques, SlideTeam offers you the lean project management PowerPoint Presentation. You can easily impart your business information with help of this lean practices PowerPoint slides. This lean thinking presentation templates contain slides on project planning process, dimensions of business planning, elements of project lifecycle, business objective, business scope, program phases, critical path, activity planner, week scheduler, yearly scheduler, tasks status dashboard, work breakdown structure, planning stages, work process, team management, planning and timeline, concept development, activity network, risk identification, progress against baseline schedule, alternatives evaluation and budgeting. With this lean manufacturing PowerPoint template, you can showcase various topics like six sigma, startup business, waste management, enterprise planning, improvement process, risk assessment, value stream mapping, and construction planning and change management. You can save time and enhance your Presentation skills by using our lean project management PowerPoint Presentation. Our Lean Project Management Powerpoint Presentation Slide will further your efforts. Their effect will draw in a bigger applause. https://bit.ly/3kHE1iq
Join Red Pill Development's Creative Director Bob Kadrie, and Software Engineer Keith Strickland as they discuss how good design profoundly impacts the effectiveness of the applications you develop. In this session we will explore the industry's renewed dedication to user experience by taking a closer look at the design standards created by Google, IBM and Microsoft, and how you can utilize these design strategies to improve your application's usability and adoption.
Need to present lean project tools and techniques, SlideTeam offers you the lean project management PowerPoint Presentation. You can easily impart your business information with help of this lean practices PowerPoint slides. This lean thinking presentation templates contain slides on project planning process, dimensions of business planning, elements of project lifecycle, business objective, business scope, program phases, critical path, activity planner, week scheduler, yearly scheduler, tasks status dashboard, work breakdown structure, planning stages, work process, team management, planning and timeline, concept development, activity network, risk identification, progress against baseline schedule, alternatives evaluation and budgeting. With this lean manufacturing PowerPoint template, you can showcase various topics like six sigma, startup business, waste management, enterprise planning, improvement process, risk assessment, value stream mapping, and construction planning and change management. You can save time and enhance your Presentation skills by using our lean project management PowerPoint Presentation. Our Lean Project Management Powerpoint Presentation Slide will further your efforts. Their effect will draw in a bigger applause.
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10 reasons web projects dont go live on time and how to avoid themVictoria Burdett
Many web projects either run over time, over budget or both. There are a range of strands involved in building or migrating a website including different teams, different systems and different processes. And these need to align to make the project run as smoothly as possible from kick-off to go-live.
As the most common web project pain point, we’ve gathered the thoughts of our teams as to why websites don’t go live on time so you can avoid this happening to you.
APM webinar held on 27 April 2021.
Presenters:
Naomi Brooks, Sebastian Williams, Martin Paver
Revolutions, it’s been remarked, never go backward. Nor do they advance at a constant rate. Just consider the radical transformation unleashed by data analytics.
By now, it’s clear the data revolution is changing businesses and industries in profound and unalterable ways.
We have a real opportunity, as project professionals, to harness the benefits of data to support the progress of our projects.
We can only do this if we fully understand and embrace the fundamental requirements of data. This session will look to explore the why of data, providing an initial insight into why you should embrace it’s role in current and future projects.
Links:
https://youtu.be/AxXengxxNcQ
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/why-data-matters-webinar/
User Centered Design: guarantee that your business process automation project...Bonitasoft
Wide user acceptance is one of the biggest challenges companies face when launching a new project, product, or service. Any of these can fail for a variety of reasons, but failure is often due to a disappointing user experience.
The process of User Centered Design actively takes into account the needs, expectations, and characteristics of end users at each stage of the development process, leading ultimately to better user satisfaction.
The tools and processes manager of a large French automotive group recently noted, "You have to be user-centric to successfully digitize your processes." End users can feel, “This was actually designed with me in mind - my wants and needs were actually considered before a tool was imposed on me to use.”
From layout to delivery of the first iteration and through continuous improvement, learn how to use the Bonita UI Designer as an iteration tool to guarantee an ideal match with the actual needs of end users.
video: https://youtu.be/vmZgeJ86738
Team Misfocus and Error in software projectsAdam Russell
we all know that software development projects often fail or are impaired, but what is the cause? There are many sources of error, and this presentation looks at team-based patterns of mis-focus on one part of the project at the expense of others. Observed from many software development projects over more than 20 years, this presentation will generate ideas for project review and alignment activities
Misfocus-caused error in software projectsAdam Russell
We know that many projects fail, or become impaired, but what is the reason given so many methodologies, tools and support systems. Error comes from many places. For whatever reason, teams create problems by investing more time in aspects of software development practice that have a smaller impact on project overall success, and accordingly invest less time in areas that have a larger impact.
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If your company needs to submit a Web Design And Development Proposal Template PowerPoint Presentation Slides look no further. Our researchers have analyzed thousands of proposals on this topic for effectiveness and conversion. Just download our template, add your company data and submit to your client for a positive response. https://bit.ly/3fyJBOP
A proposed framework for Agile Roadmap Design and MaintenanceJérôme Kehrli
Maintaining a relevant and meaningful roadmap while adopting a state of the art Agile methodology is challenging and somewhat antonymous.
This presentation proposes a framework for designing and maintaining an Agile Roadmap.
A proposed framework for Agile Roadmap Design and Maintenance
Mastering Your Freelance Business
1. Mastering Your Freelance Business San Diego Graphic Designers Prepared by: Rob Heller – August 5th, 2010
2. On The Subject Of Me Creative Director, UI Architect Graduate of RIT, NY 2005 Experience in Print, Web, Interactive, Video, Audio, & Application Development Founded SDGD, Nov 2009 2 Clients: Johnson & Johnson Heidelberg ESPN Jello Edwards Lifesciences Hoya Surgical Optics Lumenis Glaukos
3. Words of Wisdom Fabien Barral- 7 Rules To Understand Designers - http://www.fabienbarral.com/ 3
6. Gauging & Defining Project Scope Why Underestimating Is So Common New technologies in the requirements Grey areas or complete unknowns during estimate period Complex projects that require heavy time to break into detail (unbillable hours) 6
7. Gauging & Defining Project Scope Other Pitfalls That Cause Underestimating The client needs an estimate ASAP or they walk No previous project ‘estimated vs. actual’ data Estimating time for a project is just plain not fun 7
8. Scope 101 We’re going to build a news website. Let’s plan it out. 8
29. Project Estimate Resources Web Development Project Estimator Schedule and Cost Summary Tick How to Estimate a Web Site Project Simple process to estimate times and costs in a web project How to Accurately Estimate a Web Design Project Estimating Resource Time for Web Development Projects How To Estimate Time For A Project 13
31. Ingredients For A Solid Contract Scope Deadlines Delivery Details Payment Schedule Revisions The Fine Print 15
32. Contract Building Resources Terms and Conditions for Design Contracts Design Contracts – The How and Why’s of Contracts What goes into a good web design contract? Using freelance graphic design contracts Business of Design Online Forms Freelance Contracts 16
36. Stick to the Plan Map out what projects you will work on each day Create a wishlist & log actual list 20
37. Always Move Forward “I need more time!” I just DON’T feel like working on this… This project is dragging on forever… Forget all of that, you got this under control! 21