Project management

 Definition 

Project management in media is the role of ensuring all aspects of a given production run smoothly by overseeing a number of people and departments 

The project manager must ensure that deadlines are met and the brief is followed by liasing with others and holding them to account 

Activity what kind of skills and traits does a project manager need 

Communication 

Leadership 

Risk management 

Problem solving 

Organisation 

Time management 

Negotiations 

Critical thinking 

Analytical 

Budgeting 

Production schedule 

The best way to manage media project is to create a production schedule . This brings together logistic and resource details and includes all tasks milestones and the time - scales and deadline and allows the tracking of progress 

This is shared with all members of the production team and contains details of the initial proposal , key milestones agreed with the client as well as final deadline 

Production schedule - what are the key terms in a ps ? 

1 tasks  - actual jobs that need doing 

2 deadlines - the date when these tasks must be completed 

3 milestones - identified point to be reached within the project 

4 contingencies - back up plan / ideas ; alternative options 

YOU MUST REMEMBER THESE FOUR KEY TERMS WHEN DISCUSSING POJECT MANAGEMENT 

GANTT CHART 

Karol adamiecki creates the GANTT CHART  and gantt was the first person to translate it to English it is made from a bar CHART but includes a milestone that is a diamond and the use of each bar having its own task it help to organise and oversee the progress of a project and is traditional made on excel and it is the most popular management tool

Daniel is leading the project management 

Identify two project management tools that would be suitable for Daniel to use explain why the tools are suitable , referring to the brief in your answers 

A project management tool that would be suitable for Daniel would be the use of a gant chart to help Daniel work around deadlines and properly allocate there resources another one would be a to do list this can help Daniel team create there modern website and this can help his three main members of staff know what there allocated job is and know the deadline for where there work has to be completed

A project management tool that could also be suitable for Daniel would be a spreadsheet the use of a spreadsheet is too analyse data and store data this can be used to put the target audience there main reason of the redesign of the website and this can help Daniel team to create a 

Peer assessed by leni (the best)

Gantt chart and spreadsheet are correct examples. Importance of deadlines has been hilifhtss . 

Need to improve on detail and going deeper into the argument of why a spreadsheet could be suitable as a tool. Haven't explained enough about why a spreadsheet would benefit Daniel and the employees.

4/6 marks 

An online calender because all stakeholders and the team can access it and all can be updated of any changes made to plans 

Explain one drawback of using one of the project management tools that you identified above 

0/3

The draw back of An online calender is caused if the internet connection goes down  it can't can't reworked on by all and changes will be lost or have to be revised