You may think that your project is not very big just a 4 pages website with a product page just to show your goods and services and you need neither brainstorming nor planning.
My friend you are wrong, you may not need the brainstorming but planning and specificly the steps in your project is vital.
Imaging a triangle, every corner of this triangle carries one aspect of a project Time, Scop, and Cost. Put pressure in any side of this triangle and the other two will suffer.
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- Project Scope by Anthony DeMarco
Scop: What needs to be done to finish the project?
Planning not only makes your project to be delivered smoothly but also it can help you to specify the possible risks, budgets and even your resources.
If you have a big project then this article will give only a glance as the project planning is very detailed process. In this article I will go over the project planning briefly.
You won’t believe how much you can save in just having a project plan and give your project plan to a designer, or a developer.
9 out of 10 clients of mine don’t have project plan whether they don’t know which I doubt about that as everyone can draw a sitemap and tell you what goes where or they just don’t bother.
From designers perspective it is just a nightmare, because they need to send emails back and forth, try to find the clients and find out what is the client after, what is the feeling of the project then spend so many time to sort things out and after that client and designer will give up because no one knows how the things will work and what are the objectives.
From Clients perspective dollars, dollars and more dollars, yes every call and meeting, every back and forth conversion is costly. Time is the most important thing in the life of a project.
Remember we talked about the triangle of the project. Time put pressure on the resources and costs.
I will talk to you guys more about the scops and the steps in the next article
