Schedules by chapter.
We had a very good session with a customer today. We were helping them build schedules for the production of a thousand page text book with lots of art and edits.
The steps in this process are relatively simple. Pick-up, review, edit, proof, revise, post to automated page system, generate Pdfs, review, revise til done, ship.
This is a very good close knit production team. They know what they are doing, and they all work on the project all the time, so it seems like any task is actually in play for the full duration of the project, and it may be 93 days long.
Hrrmmm… This design renders no information to answer the boss when she says “How we doin’?”
But actually, the team is working the project in sections, or chapters. They just don’t have a way to report on their progress.
Great news! In Appingo, a best-practice-workflow can be built, easily replicated for as many sections as there are. This renders a great way to manage and report on real status.
Chapters can be started in a staggered way, they can all finish at the same time a manager can easily see progress of the project. Here’s a project (now all complete… tasks are all gray) that lasted nearly a year with staggered starts and different delays in different chapters; some were for art, some for editorial, some just holding while other chapters caught up. They all finished near the same time, and the great news… they all shipped on time.
This is a big win!
-Steve
