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Project Management
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Today’s Class…
Team Strategies, Roles &
Responsibilities
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• Super Media Brothers Brawl
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• Super Media Brothers Brawl
– Serious challenge
• Most complicated event presented
• May garner the biggest payoff
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• Super Media Brothers Brawl
– Class Challenge
• Your theme is a commercial and copyrighted reference.
– This potential copyright infringement is an issue
• The video games will likely overshadow the art.
– In order to be successful this event will need to be more
than a video game round robin
– Guitar Hero does not promote the excellence of New
Media students in a professional manner
• Finding original works by students that fit with the theme
across departments and faculties may be difficult.
– Many students make strong work that has nothing to do
with gaming
» Will this make the programming job easier or difficult?
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• Super Media Brothers Brawl
– Class Challenge
• Never lose sight of the fact that gaming is merely a
theme.
• The goal has not changed. This class must…
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Stage a New Media Showcase to
Promote the Excellent Work
Generated by New Media
Students
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• Team Challenges
–Communications & Marketing
– To Do: Choose a new name for the event that embraces
the theme of gaming but makes clear this event is a
showcase of students’ original work. The new name can
make vague allusion to commercial gaming but should not
mislead the audience about what they can expect.
» I.e. Super Media Students Blowout
» Draft at least three logo/poster design mock-ups that
feature the new title to present to the class for
selection next Monday
» Decide who is responsible for poster design, website
architecture and maintenance, photo and design
documentation and archiving
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• Team Challenges
–Resource Management &
Audience Development
– To Do: Create a strategy that exploits the target audience’s
enthusiasm about commercial gaming and that can create the
same enthusiasm about work created by New Media students
– Decide who will be Team Leader for fundraising, volunteer
recruitment/public relations, and venue management.
– Begin thinking about ways of how the gaming theme can be used:
» for fundraisers
» to catch the interest of volunteers and audiences
» can be integrated into the event venue(s) leading up to and
during the event
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• Team Challenges
–Programming
– To Do: Create a Strategy that embraces the theme of the gaming while
finding 3-D, 2-D and video work by students to showcase the works within
the parameters of the theme
» Draft a call for submissions
» Set a deadline
» Draft a strategy for disseminating the call for submissions
» Create a timeline for collecting works, viewing works, installing,
screening and staging
» Consider location and venue design
– Decide who will be Team Leader for traffic coordination of work, collection of
catalogue information, technical support management, artist relations
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• It all
comes
down to
this
process…
managing
planning
Project
Outcome
doing
controlling
monitoring
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• From this day forward…
• Mondays from 4:00-4:50 are for Lectures, Team Progress
Reports and Questions
– Team Progress Reports are vitally important. Each team will need
information and support from the others and vice versa
• Mondays from 4:50-5:50 are for Team Meetings/Activity
• Wednesdays are for Lectures, Trouble-shooting Roundtables
from 4:00-4:50
– I will check in with each team to discuss and problems or
roadblocks
• Wednesdays from 4:50-5:50 are for Team Meetings/Activity
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• Always Remember Your Project
Log…
• Each Team Meeting Must have a facilitator.
Someone must keep a record of items discussed in
meetings.
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• Project Log Entries
• The Role of Facilitator Should be A Rotating Role
•
The facilitator records the official “minutes” of the meeting
– Record: Date, Time, Location, Names of Participants
• At the top of the page record the agenda question: What Kind of Event Should We
Present
• Underneath that make your laundry list of ideas and related details
• Make it legible because everyone in the group will need a copy
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• Project Log Entries
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When you conduct Project Management activities individually, outside
class time or off campus DO NOT forget to make a Project Log entry of
that activity. Everything you do in this class that relates to the staging
of a New Media Showcase to Promote the Excellent Work Generated by New
Media Students contributes to your final grade. In order for the activity to
be acknowledged and evaluated it must be reflected in a Project Log
entry.
Activities may include but are not limited to:
– making presentations on campus about the Project Management event
– Meetings and correspondence with UofL faculty or staff related to the event
– Meetings and correspondence with Lethbridge community members related
to the event