{"id":92,"date":"2008-01-28T11:47:29","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T18:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=92"},"modified":"2008-02-03T15:16:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T22:16:17","slug":"when-starting-a-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"When starting a project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key things to focus on at the beginning of a new project:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. People:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify all the key players, get their contact info (email, phone, IM) and their physical location\/time zone too<\/li>\n<li>Get their schedules of availability for this project, including days they telecommute (WAH)<\/li>\n<li>Identify the official decision-makers and approvers: technical, business, design (tech = engineering + QA leads)<\/li>\n<li>Identify the role of other people involved (contributor, informed, etc.) and who to expect might pop-up down the road<\/li>\n<li>As the project evolves and scope is re-defined (which always happens!), more or different people will enter\/exit as needed, adjust as necessary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2. Process:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decide the working style and process<\/li>\n<li>Decide whether to do in-person, phone conf, web conf, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Decide level of day-to-day involvement<\/li>\n<li>Make sure all in agreement, with room for adjustments down the road<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3. Deliverables:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Decide what the final deliverables will be and how success will be measured\/identified<\/li>\n<li>Decide what the working\/interim deliverables will be and how they will be reviewed (see Process above)<\/li>\n<li>Make sure all in agreement, with room for adjustments down the road<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4. Schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are the deadlines and milestones? What is expected at those points in time?<\/li>\n<li>Make sure all in agreement, with room for adjustments down the road<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>5. Materials: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gather the latest version of critical documents as fodder\/material for analysis and discussion<\/li>\n<li>MRD, PRD, ERD: all technical and business requirements<\/li>\n<li>User Research: all personas, scenarios, use cases, taskflows, architecture or concept maps that have been done already even in preliminary form<\/li>\n<li>Prototypes, if any<\/li>\n<li>Screenshots, specs if any, and photoshop files<\/li>\n<li>Latest builds, if any<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key things to focus on at the beginning of a new project: 1. People: Identify all the key players, get their contact info (email, phone, IM) and their physical location\/time zone too Get their schedules of availability for this project, including days they telecommute (WAH) Identify the official decision-makers and approvers: technical, business, design (tech &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/?p=92\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When starting a project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}