Too many multimedia projects run over-time and over-budget because teams lack management training and fail to develop sensible management systems. This course will focus on ways to maximize efficiency and get the best work out of employees and contractors.
Course topics will include developing project specifications and storyboards, hiring and working with contractors, licensing content, developing and maintaining budgets and time-lines, beta testing and of course, managing employees.
The emphasis will be on management of consumer CD-ROM projects, however the skills learned in this class are transferable to other multimedia genres.
The course structure will include instructor and guest lectures, and take-home assignments. Class lectures will also be supplemented with a class reader.
Debbie Lefkowitz is a former InternActive intern. She is now an official MSP Instructor. She works as project Manager for Magnum Design, a multimedia production company, where she is currently supervising the development of the English and German versions of a World Atlas CD-ROM. She also provides marketing and business development consulting services to multimedia developers. Debbie holds an MBA from Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands and a Master's Degree in City and Regional Planning from UC Berekely.