When planning the goals for a project it might seem like splitting hairs to layout wants vs needs, but it can be amazingly helpful later in production. Workflow is about creating a plan of getting to a final product. You can think of it like a literal map, showing you how to get somewhere. Setting goals identifies where you want to go on this map, and then you craft a way to get there.<\/p>\n
So why should you even think about wants? If in a project you’re only \u201cneed\u201d is to get to that goal on the map, why bother with wants? Because they are the method for achieving the \u201cneeds\u201d.<\/p>\n
A weak workflow only focuses on where you are in production and the final destination, with a single path leading between the two. There are thousands of ways to do something, some ways are better than others, and others might yield different products. Having a good workflow is not about laying out the single best path to get you from point A to point B, or the fastest path from point A to point B. Rather a good workflow is laying out a collection of possible paths, each with their own advantages.<\/p>\n
To go back to the map analogy a bad workflow is a list of direction, go for 3 miles, take a right, go until you cross a river, then 2 miles from there is a gas station, etc. It only gives you one way to do something. A good workflow is a full map, so you can see where you are and all of the paths you can take.<\/p>\n
Before you render another pass stop and think if you need one, or is there another option?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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