Week 6 - Roles

For a team project at school we have been assigned to groups and asked to design a website for a local vet clinic. We are to treat this as a true design project as best we can.

We have broken the team down into 4major roles that we would most likely find in a small design shop or boutique. Project manager, art director, coder, and content manager. Those roles will be fulfilled by the following people.

Project Manager- Mike I
Art Director- Andy
CSS/Dreamweaver Coder- Mike M
Content Manager- Emily

The project manager will be in charge of coordinating the client and team. The art director will make sure that the client’s business is properly represented by the design and he/she will also make sure that the design remains consistent across all of the different pages and media. The coder will take all finished designs and put them into dream weaver and make sure it has all the proper code to be transitioned into the web world. The content manager is in charge of managing all the content. Getting all the necessary information and images form the client and revising and editing it into something that flows with the website.

If any of these roles are not fulfilled on time the project can start to fail via a domino effect very quickly. Most likely if one person fails in one of these roles on of the other people will have to jump in and try and take on two roles inevitably causing the work form both roles to be late. If the work is late than the deadline is not met, if the deadline is not met, the customer is dissatisfied, with to the team if a loss of other potential customers even any profit.

So basically if a project is to be completed as a success, all of these roles must stay on task, and if any of the members starts to get overwhelmed they must speak up at the earliest possible moment so that more work can be delegated elsewhere.