Saturday, April 24, 2010
A Recipe for a Successful Project
Behind the Scenes at Taylor Studios, Inc: A successful project is one with delighted clients and engaged visitors. One of our recent successes is the Puget Sound Navy Museum. We started with a great story to tell, which is the first key to success. Taylor Studios was brought on board (no pun intended) to design, build, and install a new exhibition interpreting life aboard the USS John C. Stennis, a Nimitz-class Aircraft Carrier that docks in the navy shipyard near the museum.
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This is a fundamental thing for us. It's important that everyone on the team really knows what their goals are, whether they be artistic or technical, in order to really accomplish something that can be both well received and great to work on. There are a lot of circumstances where it's almost impossible to achieve this, but I think that even one person that is positive and strives to keep the throughput can really make a difference in a project team even if there are personality issues.
I found this article to be.....almost too contrived. The listed things for a successful project are not really anything that you can have a deciding hand in. Especially if you're in a different scenario and would like to have a successful outcome. How do you co about improving your clients and visitor enjoyment?
This article definitely points out the obvious ingredients for a success, but doesn't give you any insight into how to make those ingredients. And faux food definitely wont save you every time.
Whenever I think of museums or exhibits relating to ships/the navy, and all the other stuff I find extremely boring I'm always reminded of middle school field trips that you're forced to go on to learn stuff about a topic you could be less interested in. But I really appreciate the new direction a lot of museums kind of like the museum of natural history, etc are taking to make exhibits that more interactive and educational through fun concepts like faux food and 'a day in the life of a sailor'. Tbose are all really cool ways to engage an audience without delivering all the boring facts.
What a great exhibit to work on. It must be a bit intimidating to know that this will be something that will be seen by those who have actually experienced what it is really like. However, what a wonderful thing to bring to the families of those who participated in the navy. They can only imagine what it is like, and so to put them in the a replica situation must be interesting.
Yes, perhaps this is the "perfect recipe" for a successful project, but again, there are too many variables.
It's good to see these folks talking about the end users. Often it seems like we get lost in the complex and interesting parts of process, and forget that what we build is destined for an audience somewhere, and that really ought to be our goal. Partly, it seems like the system of rigid specing and creation by a separate studio encourages this, but a good team can still keep priorities aligned.
I think we all want these things out of a project. In theatre collaboration is so important. As we talked about in metaskills, it is known as the collaborative art. This article wasn't very helpful though. I just don't feel like it told me anything that I didn't already know. It was cool to see the pictures of the museum exhibit but other that I didn't get anything out of it. The other thing is, I agree with Candace, a person cannot start a project and say immediately that the project will turn out perfect.
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