TGIF
By JoeBruin88. Filed in Career and Life |Tags: Career, design, development, initiative, instructional-design, leadership, Life, project-manager, work
Well my first week as the “project manager” was so C-R-A-Z-Y!!. There is a ton of stuff to do on top of what I was already doing. But you know what? I love it!
My job is so busy with lots of different things to do. I am never bored.
- Manage the Virtual Radio Room (VRR) project.
- Review interactive courseware in the VRR.
- Design instruction on storyboards.
- Manage the team’s deliverables, schedules, and tasks (9 people).
- Interface with the development team in terms of deliveries and graphics and publications catalog.
I devised a new spreadsheet in Excel to track the progress of each of the 99 lessons we’re creating as it moves through the design and development process all the way to the testing phase on the server where it will be delivered. It’s a cool sheet because it gives both a color-visual indication of each lesson’s progress, as well as the date that each lesson reached a particular stage in the cycle. The sheet also lets me know which required elements are missing.
This week I also completed my second storyboard on Antenna Types. I wasn’t that happy with this one, though my manager and the lead designer felt it turned out pretty good. I had to write it three times due to revisions pushed forward first by the Subject Matter Experts, then by the Lead Designer, and finally today, the day it was due, by my Manager.
And I’d like to close with a quote from a co-worker, which I thought was pretty funny:
I think we have a good way to differentiate between us now based on your new responsibilites. Instead of Gerry with a G, can we call you Gerry the Hammer?
