The document discusses project management and announcements for an upcoming class. It can be summarized as follows: 1) The class announcements discuss an upcoming project using 1/8" aluminum sheets and encourages students to have their first project ready to share. 2) Project management involves creating a plan to complete a project, including defining deliverables, listing tasks, estimating costs and timeline, and determining resources needed. 3) Executing the project plan involves monitoring time, costs, and quality and making adjustments if needed by potentially lowering quality or raising costs. The process is then reviewed once complete.

1. Thursday, Sept. 17
• Announcements
• Project Management

2. Announcements
• Project 2 Metal: 1/8” aluminum, 24” x 16”
• Tuesday - Cool weather = energy up, feeling good
– How do I manage class without killing creativity?
– Regroup and refocus on Tuesday
• Homework videos – please watch them
– Discussion is RE-inforcement
– Questions about video topics on exams
– Multiple videos – present info differently
• Have project 1 ready to share on Tuesday
– Does NOT need to be perfect
– Share with class and predict cut outcome

3. Project Management
• What is the goal of project management?
– Create and monitor a plan to complete a project
• What is a project?
– Anything that has a starting date and an objective
• What is a project plan?
– What has to be done
– How it’s going to get done
– Who’s going to do what
• How do you figure out what the project plan will do?
– Meet with client, brainstorm with team

4. Planning
• Before committing to the project
– Define the project – be very specific about deliverables
• Client sets parameters
– List the tasks – brainstorm with team, do research
• Make sure all possible tasks have been identified
– Estimate cost and time for each task  for entire project
– Determine the order in which things need to get done
• Timeline
– Determine the resources needed – staff, tools, materials
– Figure out possible risks and plans to resolve
• Don’t promise (not even maybe) what you can’t deliver

5. Execute the project
• Monitor time, costs, quality
• Adjust plan if necessary
– Usually means lowering quality
– Or raising the costs
• When finished – review the project process
– Good
– Bad
– Better

6. Review: What’s Important?
• Break projects down into smaller processes
• Good, cheap, fast – pick 2
• Monitor the project for cost, time, and quality

7. Homework for This Week
CorelDraw
• Text Tool
Design
• Wake Up, Smell the Fonts
• Font Design
• Typography: Off Book
• Type Matters: Font
Documentary
• Typography Matters