Digikid
an event project done in school
Manage a team with various skills in order to answer to a very specific demand.
Built a singular site in a week with the means at hand.
Be strong and cold-blooded to face a work overload.
Under a school project, we were 4 students working together to build a website promoting a real event. The difficulty was to attend to this mission in a week without having all the elements. We had to work with other teams dedicated to tasks like strategy, redaction, or creation. Moreover, we needed to show a lot of nerve to endure pressure and to do the job very quickly. At last, I was responsible of the team and had to manage it.
Digikid is a digital event in Paris proposed by the school ESD to gather parents and children where they can share a playful moment thanks to various activities. On the other hand, it’s an opportunity to participating student to meet the parents which are digital professionals and every participant to discover new technologies or innovative products. It was the second edition of an event we (ESD’s students) already had organised the year before. The challenge was to make the concept still attractive with basically the same baseline.
First, I evaluated the situation. Then, I tried to train my team, because I wanted this project to be a formative experience for them. However, I had to use the best of themselves, assigning them tasks according to their skills in order to develop the website. I hoped to make this week as interesting as possible, for few ones it was a success, not for the others. Thereby, I should have been more a manager and less a teacher even if I regret nothing.
We wanted to make a simple website in harmony with the type of project it had to represents. So we chose to make a website divided in 2 parts representing the duality between the parents and their children as the main concept chosen by other teams. Thus, we used HTML/CSS to make a static website, without applying a CMS platform, because the site was a promotion platform to support the one day event. For us, it needed to be attractive, simple, atypical, and to praise the concept highlighted by the event.
We started to realize the complexity of our job when we knew that we had to be in accordance with the other teams and in the meantime to do it quickly. There we did the biggest mistakes : we hesitated to choose our technology, tried to respect too much the orientation of others, and did not organized ourselves soon enough. However we did organize pretty well in order to deliver the website finished in time.
We chose a difficult path, because we wanted to make a good website. Driven by the wish to make real what we imagined regarding the potential of the project. However, we had been kind of greedy as time and means at hand were not enough.
We also lacked of skills to create Digikid’s website and we faced a complicated situation between everyone needs and our scope. Yet, our organization and tenacity granted us to built a correct website, pretty close to what we had in mind.
Finally, I’m glad to have been a part of this kind of unsuccess, because I learned so much from it. I am now much more ready to confront and to answer to consequent missions which requires technical, managerial, and organizational skills.
Websites in One
Hours Worked
Core Lessons Learned
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