- "Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints."
The ability to estimate and manage the costs and time involved in the set construction process, and to make decisions that balance artistic and financial considerations.
Budgeting Basics: Understanding the basics of budgeting, such as how to create a budget, track expenses, and evaluate spending habits.
Time Management Techniques: Techniques for managing your time, such as creating a schedule, prioritizing tasks, and avoiding distractions.
Project Management: Skills needed to manage a project from start to finish, including planning, organization, and communication.
Planning & Scheduling: Creating an effective plan and schedule, including timelines and deadlines, to ensure that a project is completed on time and within budget.
Resource Management: Managing resources, including personnel, materials, and equipment, to ensure optimal efficiency during the production process.
Cost Control: Strategies for controlling costs, including tracking expenses, reducing waste, and negotiating with vendors to get the best deals.
Risk Management: Identifying potential risks and developing contingency plans to minimize their impact on the production process.
Communication Skills: Effective communication skills, such as listening, presenting, and negotiating, are essential for ensuring that all members of a team understand their roles and responsibilities.
Safety & Compliance: Understanding safety regulations and legal requirements related to the production process to ensure that all workers are safe and the production is compliant.
Quality Control: Developing quality control procedures to ensure that all elements of the set design and construction meet the required standards and expectations.
Traditional Budgeting: This type of budgeting is focused on past financial data and history which is used to make future projections.
Activity-Based Budgeting: This type of budgeting is based on identifying the activities that make up the production process and assigning the cost for each activity.
Zero-Based Budgeting: In this type, all the expenses are assigned zero, and then each expense is justified one by one.
Rolling Budgeting: Rolling budgeting is the process of keeping a continuous budget updated with new sets of data every month or quarter.
Time-Blocking: This is a time management technique that involves scheduling your time in blocks to increase productivity and achieve set goals.
Pomodoro Technique: This is a time management technique where you work in 25-minute intervals, then take a five-minute break, and repeat the process until you complete your task.
Time Stealing: This is a time management technique that involves identifying time-wasting activities and eliminating them from your schedule.
Agile Project Management: This is a project management technique that helps you plan and execute your projects dynamically, based on what’s happening in the construction site.
Critical-Path Method: This is a project management technique that identifies the critical path of the construction or set design project and focuses on managing, controlling and monitoring it.
Scrum: This is a project management framework focused on teamwork, collaboration, and incremental development, with the goal of producing high-quality deliverables in a productive environment.
Lean Production: This is a philosophy for reducing waste and increasing efficiency in production processes, supporting each other in reducing the overall workload.
Gantt Chart: This is a graphical representation of a project schedule showing the tasks, the dates when tasks are started and completed, and also the dependencies between tasks.
- "The primary constraints are scope, time, and budget."
- "The secondary challenge is to optimize the allocation of necessary inputs and apply them to meet pre-defined objectives."
- "The objective of project management is to produce a complete project which complies with the client's objectives."
- "Once the client's objectives are clearly established, they should influence all decisions made by other people involved in the project."
- "Ill-defined or too tightly prescribed project management objectives are detrimental to decision-making."
- "A project is a temporary and unique endeavor designed to produce a product, service, or result with a defined beginning and end."
- "Typically, to bring about beneficial change or added value."
- "The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast with business as usual, which are repetitive, permanent, or semi-permanent functional activities to produce products or services."
- "In practice, the management of such distinct production approaches requires the development of distinct technical skills and management strategies."
- "This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process."
- "The objective of project management is also to shape or reform the client's brief to feasibly address the client's objectives."
- "For example, project managers, designers, contractors, and subcontractors."
- "Usually time-constrained, and often constrained by funding or staffing."
- "The process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints."
- "A defined beginning and end (usually time-constrained)."
- "The temporary nature of projects stands in contrast with business as usual (or operations)."
- "The allocation of necessary inputs to meet pre-defined objectives."
- "The secondary challenge is to optimize the allocation of necessary inputs and apply them to meet pre-defined objectives."
- "The objective of project management is to produce a complete project which complies with the client's objectives."