Section 7

Project Delivery

Review the project with your client or peers/audience:

• Throughout the piece my client’s responses have been extremely positive when I have shown him my developments images to comment on and in providing feedback to keep the project on time. 

Ensure the project is running to plan:

• My work breakdown structure worked very well on the whole.  I had allowed for the Christmas break but was unfortunately sick for 2 weeks which put the plan under pressure and meant I had to work weekends and evenings to keep the plan on track.  Overall, I had enough time to produce all the elements of the artefact and felt in control during each stage of the project – referring back to the Gantt chart regularly and ensuring I stayed on track.
• My client was pro-active and responsive and provided media (high quality photos of products) and gave feedback on all elements promptly in the early stages of the project. Unfortunately, he was less available towards the end when final sign off was required, only sending me a scan response on the penultimate day of the project.  This did put me under pressure, though I got signed off in the end.   
• Once all the elements were produced I was able to start testing as per my plan and produce the finished elements (Logo, business card, website and Facebook page). The testing stage was put under pressure towards the end of the piece when I had to fix many problems with the website, but thankfully I worked hard to get these sorted and 3rd party testing was able to occur.
• Although the overall work breakdown structure worked well and I was able to tick items off the plan covered just this unit with no allowance for other work that I would be producing for my course. Another time I would allow for a work week of 2.5 days rather than 5 to allow space for other activities.

Check your assumption made earlier are still valid:

Most of the assumptions I made at the start of the project were valid but there were a few which did change as the project went along:-

• I assumed that it would be easier to design the business cards on Vistaprint using their standard templates but in the end it was more flexible to draft the layout in Adobe Photoshop.  I could then send a .jpg file to my client for review and feedback without using screenshots from VistaPrint.  The image from Photoshop was clearer, and a more professional way to display designs with a client.
• Additionally, in the end I printed the cards via the Banana Print website as this was a cheaper service thereby saving my client some expense.
• Learning to use Wix took a little longer than expected and there was an unplanned for delay with Wix when you want to publish the website once the design was finalised, which added to production time.
• I hadn’t created a blog before so created most of my text off line and put it onto a blog towards the end of the project. I then discovered that it was actually a useful way of sorting out content and would potentially use the blog format for future projects.