Multimedia Process – Part 3 of 3

The crucial steps in multimedia development that will provide you with a road map to successful multimedia projects have been outlined in the first two parts. In this last part of the 6-phase multimedia development process, we look at delivery and project closure phases in more detail. At this stage most of the work has been completed and we are concerned only with making sure that the correct people have access to the work we have produced. Once all is said and done, we look into what we have learned delivering another award-winning multimedia project.

04 Delivery Phase

Delivery phase is pretty straightforward – but very important. After all, there is no point putting all your energy into producing an outstanding multimedia piece that will absolutely stun the world and change our lives forever, if the client can’t see it and comment on it. Yes, there will be changes! Yes, some of them will drive you mad. But it’s ok, it is now time to deliver the version for review.

The items that we would need to capture here are mostly related to FTP access, if delivery is online. Otherwise, if you are still using CDs or other primitive old skool media, you may want to capture the delivery address. I did say simple – but important.

Two supporting document that should cover all delivery details:

• 04-01 Delivery Details – FTP details
• 04-02 Delivery Details – Delivery Specifications

05 Project Closure

So it all went incredibly well, client is happy, invoice has been paid and it’s time to party. Before you kill all those precious braincells of experience, perhaps you should document what you’ve learned working on this project. Capturing those precious experiences will help you in resolving similar situations and issues in the future, which in turn will help you deliver consistently great projects. Not good. Great. Get it? Ahhh never mind.

One support document for this phase to help you stay focused on the task:

• 05-01 Project Closure – Lessons Learned

Download all at once!

Get all the process documents in Word 2007 format, and a supporting interactive pdf technical specification file, as one zip file: multimedia development process (~1 Mb).

That concludes the multimedia development process series. Please let me know if you find it useful or if you have any suggestions for improvement.

What other steps would you list?

Do you have a process you use for your interactive / multimedia development? Have insights to share? Post a comment and let me know!

Related posts:

1. Multimedia Process – Part 1 of 3
2. Multimedia Process – Part 2 of 3