Project Timeline

Also create a blog entry that discusses your timeline. You can include the timeline if you want, but I am more interested in HOW you went about putting your timeline together. Briefly discuss how you assigned the benchmarks (major points in the project/timeline) and how you decided to chunk up the tasks on the timeline. Also discuss how you built flexibility into the timeline so that you can make adjustments as needed. Upload the URL to that blog entry here along with your PDF's.

The how of my timeline was actually fairly interesting. The first thing that I did was to find a project management software that I could use with Jacob so that we could work together on the project. The most important thing of the software was that it had to have an easy and interactive timeline where both him and I could easily set up shooting and working days. I found a software that is pretty easy to use and did all this functions, its called Wrike.

Assigning benchmarks was key because it made me think about the things that were essential for the success of the project. Since we are doing a documentary most of these benchmarks were particular shooting days with the right people and right place. It helped me a lot to identify this and write them clearly in a timeline/calendar. I chunked up most of our shooting and working on the weekends since Jacob and I are both taking a lot of other classes. From now on, we need to shoot a lot of stuff every weekend. Hopefully we are able to achieve this. Flexibility and being able to adapt to changes in the timeline is going to be key, that is why the program will be so helpful. Both Jacob and I can make changes to the timeline at any time and they will update right away and notify both of us of the changes. Creating the timeline also helped me foresee future spending and costs that I had not completely taken into account for the creation of the project.