What is Workflow?
Work•flow /ˈwərkflō/
“The sequence of industrial, administrative, or other processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion.” – lexico.com
What is a quality workflow? How do we develop it? Below are elements of the production cycle that most creative people move through as they create something. First, we must identify the stages of project production. What is each stage and what are the quality checks for each stage. Read on and find out!
Stages of Creation Development
Inspiration
How do we find ideas to develop?
- Favorite Books or stories
- Spend a while just finding the story or content ideas
- Have the entire team look over the products story and decide what happens
- The team works together to find the good and bad or the product
Intention
How do we clarify our specific goal(s) for a project?
- Use the effectiveness of the team at a maximum to their strengths
- Start the goal setting small and then move large
- Have an outside tester come in to look at the goals so far and how we are going to reach them
- Look back on the progress made so far and prepare to make the story
Pre-production
How can we brainwrite, brainstorm, storyboard, and plan our ideas at this phase?
- Work in teams to assign what will need to get done during production
- Spend time working out which teams will need the most help/support
- Assign department heads and meet with them to arrive at a conclusion of how it will get done
- Finalize the plan and work out issues or constraints that may happen
Production
How do we communicate with each other and execute our plan for this phase? This is where we actually make the project.
- Work with your team on the project you where assigned use all the help you need
- Divide throughout the team to all be working on smaller things that help the teams project
- At the end everyone looks back on their work and how to improve it
- Have another team look at your work to see if it needs to be improved or changed
Post-production
How do we communicate with each other and execute our final stages of the project for this phase? This is where we publish the project.
- Have testers from outside sources come in to help with testing
- Have teams fix final issues and small details that were missed
- Testers can give feedback on the product and opinions for later review
- Have teams get together and discuss the feedback and how to incorporate it
Presentation/Performance
How do we share our project with our learning community, advisory members, and the world?
- Use different sources to get the word out about your product (news, commercials, etc)
- Show a glimpse of the product and its features
- Show information on its quality and reviews from testers
- Collect data from presentation and review
Feedback
How do we conduct a feedback session at the end of the project development cycle?
- Have a feature to allow customers to give feedback on the product
- Assign each team a task on solving issues or helping with bugs
- Have the teams get together and look back on the entire project and what could have gone better
- Have the consumers show the final quality of the product not yourself