How To Schedule A Project Timeline

How to give a timeframe for a project.And you're having a hard timeestimating how long somethingis going to take.Yeah, yeah, pretty much OK.All right.And so what is it that you do?I'm sorry.Yeah, brand designer fora website, it's a new roleand I'm very from customerservice restaurant company.So, Yeah.Are you in house?Yeah OK.Is it your job tobuild the schedule?Yes and no.OK I'll help you right nowbecause your audio connectionis not so hot, so I want to.It's like a little choppy.All right.So Aidan is askingthis question.He's been put in a roleas the in-house designerto schedule and managehis own projects,and that's what projectmanagers are for.They ask you the questions,they figure things out,so you should really be focusedon doing the design work.OK, but since that's not thecase, then you have to do this.I'm going to helpyou out anyway.So if you.Take any projectand you divide itinto five milestones or less.That'll give you apretty clear ideaas to the phases atwhich you have to do.So if you have todesign a website.What are the five chunksthat you need to accomplish?So the process is.And this is a processyou've heard me talk about.And you can use over and overagain, it's called chunking.Just take a big goaland make it smallerand smaller and smaller.OK when I first learned howto do scheduling or projectmanagement, we justput out a calendar.Right, and then wecould work forward.So we can work backwards, we canwork backwards from a deliverydate and then figureout how much wecan spend on eachmoment and justdo the best we cangiven the time frame,or if there's nodeadline, they're justasking how long would it take?I just chunk it out.So OK, I need to do storyboardsor I need to do design.You might have to dosome user researchand you might have to dosome wireframing informationarchitecture.You can do content strategy.You can start to do theatomic design stuff.You can design all thelittle parts and piecesand then you canstart to assemble.So you just needto break it downinto five main phaseswith milestones,and then you break each one ofthose down into smaller bits.If you're managinga team, you mightwant to do agile projectmanagement, whichI'm no expert in, butthen everybody works on itall at the same time.That's the theory.Doesn't sound like that'sthe case with your companyright now.And what I would dois to make sure youinclude a healthy amount oftime for client feedback.We all think in our mindas soon as they see it,they can give us a reaction.Historically speaking,though, how longhas it taken them torespond to a designand then to giveus proper feedback?In most cases,it's going to takebetween three to five days.People do not move that fast.The bigger theproject, the more time.You have to put in for a clientto review and to give directionbecause you can't move onuntil you get direction.So that's how itwould budget it.And if you're doing it or it'sa project as a team of one,then you know, kind of howlong it takes and then Pat itout a little bitby a little bit.I mean, you can addin 100% part time.So if you think it'sthree days worth of work,just put in six days of work.Because we are historicallybad at estimating whatit takes for us to do the work.Historically, so doubleyour time and thenadd in between three to fivedays between each milestone.So that the clientscan have feedback.So typically this is howit would work, right?If I present a design,I don't anticipatemoving straightinto development,that doesn't work like that, soI'm going to present a design,they're going to have notes,then we'll do a revision.They can have notesand then we'regoing to get a finalsign off, basically.Most of my design phasesinclude two revisions.So that's three roundsof design, initialand two revisions.And each revision cycle lastsless than the previous onebecause we're movingtowards the goal.And that's how you would do it.Does that make sense?Yeah, yeah, totally.Yeah already had it brokendown and the Trello board,but yeah, it just,yeah, this is goingto help me explain itmore to the bosses.Fantastic