Managing Multimedia: Project Management for Interactive Media (2nd Edition) [Paperback]

Elaine England (Author), Andy Finney (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Elaine England and Andy Finney have produced an absolutely splendid tome for the multimedia professional...This book is an absolute must for the multimedia developer or project manager." -- John Barker, Inside Multimedia

"Managing Multimedia is my new best friend. ..... the bottom line is that if you want an instant and accurate insight into multimedia production this is for you." -- Maggi Cook. Focal International

Product Description

Are you are a designer, producer or programmer struggling with the pressures of multimedia project management? Are you a client commissioning a web site or CD-ROM and don't know what that entails? Is your project fast spiralling out of control while whole areas of the business remain a mystery? Then this second edition of Managing Multimedia will relieve the pressure, providing more practical advice and insiders' tips to help you deliver a high-quality project in time and within budget.

New to this Edition
* thoroughly updated to reflect trend towards on-line project development
* coverage of marketing and distribution concepts
* identifies future trends and directions
* The accompanying CD-ROM adds colour, sound and movement to complement aspects of the text and is designed in cross-platform HTML for easy customisation.

Key Features
* includes management guidelines for each stage of the multimedia project life cycle from initiation to completion
* defines the project managers responsibilities at each stage of the project life cycle. These checklists build into an overall job description or role model
* pinpoints all the recognised problem areas and offers practical solutions based on the Authors own extensive experience
* provides task-related exercises to help you build a customised set of multimedia management guidelines to fit your own project requirements

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Product Details

• Paperback: 440 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 2 edition (October 27, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201360586
• ISBN-13: 978-0201360585
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #988,237 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource for Multimedia Professionals, June 4, 2000

By	mali k - See all my reviews

This review is from: Managing Multimedia: Project Management for Interactive Media (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

I am a student studying Bachelor of Multimedia and I found this book to be extremely helpful in my course - especially when it came to managing and conducting my student projects at university (with real life clients, external to the uni).

This book teaches you how to effectively elicit the product requirements from your client; it gives information on contractual issues for proposals and development agreements; it advises how to assemble the most effective team for a project and team management principles; it discusses Intellectual Property and Copyright, important issues for this industry; it covers management of the other phases of a multimedia project - design, production, integration and testing... and gives advice so you don't fall in the traps that so many other projects have like requirements creep, blowing the budget, missing the deadline...

You really need to plan your multimedia projects if you want to create quality products (whether is be a web site or CD-ROM) - and this book will help you plan and control your projects.

Project management is -big- money. If you want a book about how to be a professional multimedia project manager, then this book is for you.

29 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This is not a practical book for "real life" multimedia, March 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Managing Multimedia: Project Management for Interactive Media (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

The book does not reflect real life multimedia project planning.

The authors spend too much time on overly complex forms and proceedures. I wonder if they ever worked with an in-house client or a small business wanting multimedia development. I doubt it.

If you are working on a very complex project with really stupid clients this might be the book for you.

If enjoy working with multimedia and you are working with the average clients, who want a web site or interactive CDROM, I'd advise you look for a different book.

I'm currently teaching a multimedia project planning course. A former instructor recommended we use this book. My students and I have recommended that we don't use this book for future courses.

The book contains a CDROM which is pretty much extra fluff with no real value.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very practical, realistic book., May 26, 2001

By	Martin Boucher (Montreal, Qc, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Managing Multimedia: Project Management for Interactive Media (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

I teach Multimedia Project Management in a Multimedia Design Masters Program at Laval University, Quebec City, Canada.

For the two years which I gave the course, I have used Managing Multimedia as the main reference.

I was pleased to discover the book. Students also find the book very relevant.