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kynabaker16
kynabaker16
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January 26, 2021
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Comment to win! What are you working on?

  • January 26, 2021
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If you’re like us at Workfront, every January we start a ton of new projects. So I started to wonder what is everyone else working on in Workfront these days? Tell us all below what projects you’re working on this month (or something you finished recently) and you’ll be entered to win a $10 gift card of your choice! I’ll draw multiple winners, so multiple chances to win. Respond by the end of the day Feb 9 to enter.

I’ll start‚Ķ

I’m creating projects to help me keep track of developing some new programs for you, our wonderful customers, things like more Quick Tips, a Community Corner, and tracking my ad-hoc work in Workfront. All while trying to find the balance between over-engineering the project, but creating enough tasks and reports to keep me on track.

Now it’s your turn! What are you working on?

What are you working on?

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    Best answer by kynabaker16

    Thank you all so much for sharing what you're working on! Because it's February, I want to make sure you ALL the feel the love, so each and every one of you, watch your inboxes shortly for a link to choose your $10 gift card.

    I think we might have to start doing this question on a more regular basis as I have loved seeing what everyone is working on.

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    SamanthaIsin
    SamanthaIsin
    New Participant
    January 27, 2021

    I love seeing what everyone is working on! It's giving me great ideas.

    Lately, my top 3 priorities are:

    1.) Learning to use Fusion and setting up basic scenarios to improve our efficiency

    2.) Developing the resource management tool with my team using custom reporting and ever so many trainings

    3.)Expanding our usage of Workfront throughout 6 core teams on our marketing department. That includes reporting, tracking utilization, customization, and again...ever so many trainings!

      kynabaker16
      kynabaker16Author
      Employee
      February 1, 2021

      I'm so intrigued to hear what you set up and get defined with Fusion.

      What core teams are you expanding your Workfront usage to, if you can share? I think it's always interesting to hear exactly who is using Workfront in an organization.

      RhondaGayleTX
      RhondaGayleTX
      New Participant
      January 27, 2021

      We have several large initiatives happening as well. Here are some of the most exciting:

      1. an auto-send of Mailchimp survey to the primary contact upon closure of their request to gauge satisfaction
      2. auto-send of status update emails at each milestone of a projects lifecycle to keep stakeholders up to date on progress
      3. We just kicked off our first COE session this month!

      I am fairly new at this company and finding all kinds of ways to optimize and expand Workfront in so many areas. I am sure you all know how it is... the Workfront word gets around and pretty soon other teams are reaching out for implementation for their own work processes.

      Good luck everyone!

        kynabaker16
        kynabaker16Author
        Employee
        January 27, 2021

        I love the auto-send survey at the end of a request! What a great idea! @Harriet Truman‚ just was talking about using surveys to gauge engagement overall too.

        Good luck kicking off the COE. I'm sure you'll see returns from that!

          T
          TracyPa2
          New Participant
          January 27, 2021

          One of the far too many projects I am working on right now is planning/organizing/conducting a complete property photo-shoot to make sure that all of our images are cohesive with lighting, styling and photographer. As fun as that sounds its a huge undertaking.

          • 5 hotels that need every room option and common area, fitness center etc shot.

          • 2 spas that need every room option, relaxation area, pool, Jacuzzi, sauna, salon etc shot.

          • 4 casinos that need all the exterior/interior and gaming type areas shot

          • 5 golf courses, 2 with clubhouses

          • 31+ restaurants

          • 25+ Meeting/Conference rooms

          • 1 Car care garage

          • 1 hunting Preserve

          • 1 Salmon fishing campground

          • 1 RV Park campground

          • 2 convenience store chains

          I'm sure there are more that I forgot. So as you can see I am going to be very busy this year. I just hope it doesn't take away too much of the time I spend learning more in Workfront (my preferred way to spend my time 😁)

          But, Workfront has been a huge help with organizing all of this. Creating the steps for each shoot and being able to share my research planning through Proof HQ and eventually we review the photographers images through Proof HQ as well.

          Wish me luck!

          Tracy

            kynabaker16
            kynabaker16Author
            Employee
            January 27, 2021

            Oooh, that sounds like such a fun and huge project!! Do you get to go on site to all of those properties to see the photo shoots??

            And it's totally true that we all have way too many projects.

            Are you looping in dates and assignments for this entire photo shoot? I'm wondering if you're doing all shoots as one big project or breaking it down somehow with programs and portfolios?

              T
              TracyPa2
              New Participant
              January 27, 2021

              Yes I have to art direct them so I need to be at all of them. I like doing them but then I need to make up all the time I missed at the office so it can get daunting.

              I am breaking it down by area. For instance Accommodations is 1 project with all of the basic photography tasks in it BUT once we confirm each location we are shooting they will get broken out into Parent/child tasks to complete based on those photo-shoot dates.

              OR

              I may use this Main Project as the "Planning the shoot" project and make completely new ones based on each shoot. Haven't decided yet. But when I spend that much of my time and the report I send to executives only shows 4 projects that doesn't look as impressive as it would to make them all their own project. LOL

                Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore
                Doug_Den_Hoed__AtAppStore
                New Participant
                January 26, 2021

                Cool topic Kyna!

                This month, my Top Three Initiatives include:

                • Created a Workfront Project to track and map responses to an online campaign, effectively "Mapping the Grapevine"
                • Developed a new image-centric Editorial Calendar for managing Social Media Campaigns (etc.)
                • Developed a new Gantt Chart so PM's can crunch alternative schedules using Baselines and visualize the effect (whether Good, Bad, or Ugly), colorized by phase

                Regards,

                Doug

                  kynabaker16
                  kynabaker16Author
                  Employee
                  January 27, 2021

                  Ok, so all of these sound interesting. You're using a Workfront project to rack responses to a campaign? Like automatically? Or are you managing the work to support the campaign?

                  Also, an image-centric calendar?? I think you need to show me this Doug. I'd love to see it on a call sometime. Please reach out!

                  Thank you for sharing!

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