Wow... I feel like I've been in a total whirlwind. I went home again this weekend to see my family for Easter. All this driving around is confusing me. Oh well. I'm good at adaptation.
Website click-through prototype is a GREEN for tomorrow's class presentation. No Ivona at the meeting today. I'm a bit disapointed with the progress on her picture choices... I've been asking for testing of pictures and multiple choices for two weeks now, but I've only seen one option and no testing or reasoning behind the choices. Not to mention that the pictures were not sourced from iStockPhoto as we established needed to be done.
That on top of Barbara being MIA in Brazil with very little communication for the last two weeks has put us a little behind schedule in terms of testing and content organization. I'm a little worried.
At least Project Tracking has gotten us started on the client manual with the accumulation of the all documents for our Project Plan last week. It's pretty chunky at 11 pages. I'm proud!
On a positive note, Amy has been super helpful and is doing an excellent job at user testing. Go Amy!
As for myself, I've been working on design prototypes and thinking about how the end of the project will progress. I still don't feel like I've been able to find a viable niche for Ivona to thrive. I wish I could figure out what she could get really excited about in this project... Barbara is really good at copy writing, but I get the feeling that's not what she's really excited about. Hopefully I can find a way to involve her in the design of the final client manual. I bet she'd provide some interesting insight on that.
As a leader I end up being a little disapointed in myself sometimes since I am not always the most efficient about getting everything that is on my mind communicated effectively to the group. I see the big picture of the project because I have done this before and I end up talking with all the group members individually, so I know everything that is going on. However, a lot of times everyone goes off and does their thing for the week, and then there is no time to debrief what has been done for the previous week, as we dive into work for the next week. I've been trying to do a better job of keeping everyone on the same page by doing different things with everyone involved as a group. This seems to help along with just asking general questions to make sure everyone is together.
I'm working on becoming a better facilitator. It's not easy...
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