Holistic Project Planning

Posted by Andi Rusu on February 9, 2009

One of the great things about working in Interactive Media is that by nature it brings together a wide range of creative disciplines. I think that those of us who choose to work in this area tend to be people who like to wear more than one hat and think laterally.

One of the frustrations I often see as a Project Manager is the creative gap caused when the creative players are unable to see the project holistically. A common example of this is the disconnect between content and design that seems almost inevitable in web design. Content is often given little thought, in favor of concentrating on having a cool looking website. Either that or the content is so dense and over-thought that it interferes with designing something useful or elegant.

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