EXAM Q1. Evaluate the potential effectiveness of a production schedule as a development tool for the app

By Mia Fidment 

The effectiveness of a production schedule is relatively high in most scenarios for example, The production schedule is visually effective this being a huge beneficial factor due to the team being able to understand it without having to read masses of writing, this allows the team to understand the production schedule quicker and it to be time efficient which is needed in this case due to the team only having to April so time is an issue.  

As well as the production schedule being effective it can also hinder the team for example, it doesn't include legal or ethical issues, so the team can miss out major details in their work for example forgetting to get copyrighted images this could potentially get the whole production shut down and even result in court cases, this extreme negative effect due to the production schedule. 

In developing the app, the production schedule would be useful as it factors in contingencies into the plan this meaning that the team can see alternative actions to take to suit the scenario if the original action is going as expected, this is a very effective quality of the production schedule due to the time efficiency. 

The production schedule could also be negatively impacting the team as it includes timeframes and milestones in the log however even though this is normally a positive aspect if these dates are not realistic this could majorly delay the release date losing all publicity of the app and disappoint fans waiting for the launch.  

Another great aspect of the production schedule is the fact that the whole team can understand and follow the same plan due to some of the member such as Ella being a newly hired member the simplicity of the chart will help her get a grasp of tasks , The rest of the team, Ian and josh can also see their required jobs written in chronological order and the fact that the whole team no matter what job you bring to the production can use and refer to this schedule means it’s very effective. 

Along with the production schedule however the team will also need to support this document with another document such as a visualisation diagram, in the production schedule it doesn't give a visual sense of the product and this can hinder the team if it can't be seen especially for media products. This document will be created by Ella due to her graphic skills and will be shown to the whole team so the visual idea of the project is clear throughout the team.

The plan could be quite ineffective however if the schedule was not shared round the team properly, if the team members didn’t see the plan its very useless, to combat this issue it would have to either uploaded onto a shared drive or physically placed in a visible location in the office. 

Overall, I think that the pre-production schedule is an effective schedule and its negative aspects can be easily overcome, I think the positives are more dominant and ensure success on the project if created properly.