Karin, Ditto here. This is a really tough issue, had seven going at one point and ". . . thought I was gonna die!" [aka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseanne_Roseannadanna]. Couldn't get any help but got some sympathy. Agree with Todd that it all becomes a lot of everything and nothing of something, which is very thin ice for everyone, a short view and not a long view. I tried to do a couple of [perhaps] weird things; (a) I physically segmented the projects across different war rooms where available so I had to travel to each setting down the hall (also got the project team lead to give me a wall of their office if needed; many nice residual effects there), (b) I physically segmented the projects in my own office (piles of artifacts, four walls, four projects) . . . doing more than just segmenting them via my digital filing system; (c) I delegated as much as I could; (d) I failed to ever dedicate a day to each (e.g., "If It's Tuesday This Must Be Belgium"), doing so meant I couldn't meet the multidisciplinary team (and client) needs. The major upside, a zen thing of course, is that each project cross-pollinated the other, and even my faux paux's in meetings (e.g., referring to a online Stock Management function when in a meeting with a client offering an online sign-up DSL/T1 service . . . got me a few strange stares but also a few head nods of agreement . . . LOL). Until the multi-project effort quieted, I was left with saying my mantra a lot, but also trusting that when you cross an elephant with a violin, seemingly very disparate parts, you get wonderfully creative results, even though at first glance, the two seem best kept separated for sanity. - Andrew
Andrew Schechterman PhD www.Linkedin.com/in/andrewschechterman Denver, Colorado, US 1 303 886 2440 On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Todd Zaki Warfel <li...@zakiwarfel.com>wrote: > > On Nov 3, 2009, at 7:45 AM, Karin Bryant Nova wrote: > > If anyone has any more suggestions for how to juggle so many different >> projects, I would very much like to hear them. >> > > Don't. As a small design firm we only work on 2-3 projects at one time. > Working on 5 projects at once won't allow you to give it your full attention > and do your best work. Both you and the client will suffer and your work > will show it. ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
