What is Workflow?

Work•flow /ˈwərkflō/

“The sequence of industrial, administrative, or other processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion.” – lexico.com

What is a quality workflow?  How do we develop it?  Below are elements of the production cycle that most creative people move through as they create something.  First, we must identify the stages of project production. What is each stage and what are the quality checks for each stage.  Read on and find out!

Stages of Creation Development

Inspiration

How do we find ideas to develop?

• The tools we should use when finding inspiration can be as simple as something you enjoy/admire, like a movie.
• The process that should be used is to figure out and decide something that inspires you.
• There are many ways to measure quality for Inspiration.
• In this case, you, the person developing the ideas will measure the quality.

Intention

How do we clarify our specific goal(s) for a project?

• The tools to use to find the intention is your brain (think about it).
• A process to use to find the intention is maybe to brainstorm.
• You can understand the message or what the intention is.
• The person viewing the project is the one who measures quality.

Pre-production

How can we brainwrite, brainstorm, storyboard, and plan our ideas at this phase?

• We can use something to put our ideas on.
• Record ideas on something so it’s organized.
• To measure the quality, make sure everything is coherent and understandable.
• In this case, the creators of the the ideas would measure the quality.

Production

How do we communicate with each other and execute our plan for this phase? This is where we actually make the project.

• At this point we can use our teamwork and communication skills to makes sure everything works out.
• The process of teamwork seems like it would help during the production.
• To measure quality, everything planned out should work out and feel right.
• Either the people involved or the people who view it can measure the quality.

Post-production

How do we communicate with each other and execute our final stages of the project for this phase? This is where we publish the project.

• In this stage, we could be honest and if there are any issues, fix them.
• Communication would probably be the best process at this point.
• To measure quality, measure the amount of communication
• At this point it would be ourselves measuring the quality.

Presentation/Performance

How do we share our project with our learning community, advisory members, and the world?

• Using some form of interaction we can get the project out there.
• If we socially interact with others, our project could be shared easily.
• To measure the quality we need to know how successful we are in sharing it.
• The people viewing or getting the project shared will determine the quality.

Feedback

How do we conduct a feedback session at the end of the project development cycle?

• At this point, communication would be very useful to get the feedback we need.
• To get feedback, we would need to discuss.
• To measure the quality we need to have a honest session of communication
• In this stage, we would be measuring the quality of the feedback.