PAGE PLANNING DAILY REPORT

Day 1- August 12, 2014

Meeting via Skype with Ms. Cecilia Sarmenta.
Lecture and demo for SUN TIMES page planning procedures.
Planning of live LCN PAGE. (training practicum)
Lecture and QC Direction from Ms. C.
Day 2- August 13, 2014
Planning of live ECN PAGE. Joana supervising
Meeting, Lecture with Ms. C.
Assignment of page from Ms. C. ABD Pages and Weekend Pages (with
Vince).
Error of Jen from Ms. C.
Planning of ABN PAGE. Yasmin supervising
Day 3- August 14, 2014
Planning live ABN and PRA Pioneer papers.
QCd by Jhoana
Assignment of page from Ms. C. : ABN, NOH, PRA, HOMES, MGC/NIL, MGC,
SKO.
Day 4- August 15, 2014
Planning Live ABN
Brief lecture with Ethan on the process. (btw Ethan is quite an effective
trainer.)
ABN live was QCd by Ms. C. though Jhoana, unaware that the paper was
already QCd, tried to QC the paper. She is supposed to make some
revisions, and actually pointed some errors on the paper that Ms. C. has
revised, until she was informed by Jen that the paper (ABN_2014-08-18)
was already done. Then she refrained and stick to what Ms. C. did.
It seems to me that the role of the page planning QC is being neglected
because of the ideals of Ms.C.

Day 5- August 16, 2014

Planning Live ABN 08-19 and 08-20
Idle from 9:30 onwards.

Day 6 August 19, 2014

Planning Live ABN 08-21
Review and supervision of Vince.
Brief training of Weekend papers with Vince

Day 7 August 20, 2014

Planning Live ABN_2014-08-22
Clearer and better production flow with the group.
QC by donnish and Ms. C.

Day 8 August 21, 2014

Planning Live ABN_2014-08-24
Planning Live Advanced Pioneer papers NOH_2014-08-28 and MGC_2014-
08-28.

Day 9 August 22, 2014

Planning live ABN_2014-08-25
Planning and finalising of NOH_2014-08-28 paper.
INCIDENT REPORT: Girls of Sun Times page planners are crooning the
Skype issue with my presence.
The boys group made Ms. C. a little irritated over having a break with
work still on-going. Nb. I was the only one left on the floor at that time.







PROCESS REPORT:

The QC and other senior employees of page planning are actually
concerned about the progress of the trainees. Though this is only visible in
the mens group. This Idea of mentoring is a little invisible to the girls.
The planner should or by his own, ask for the QC (Dennish and Jhoana) for
what scheduled, daily plans are up for the day. Though Ms. C. has assigned
start-up persons and revise person to tend specific papers.
After the planner finishes the ad stack, it will be sent out for the QC to
check with the Run Sheet and Percentage of the paper designed.
Most of the times, the QC is able to do his job of checking. But sometimes,
Ms. C. is practically, doing it or re-doing it again for different purposes and
reasons. (mostly of teaching and reminding the planners of the dos and
dontss and one instance, she mentioned of protecting her name in the
field. Which I presume she was referring to making all things perfect and
beautiful.)
Idle time is really long. With 4-5 hours of vacancy.

Training Process:

The training process started with a demonstration of work by Jen, while I
watch her do the job.
My first trial of ad stacking started afterwards. (with jen and jhoanas
supervision).
Then, meeting Ms. C via Skype: Brief lecture and reminders from her,
techniques and dos and donts were shown by demonstrating it herself.
All succeeding training and improvements are reflected on the continuous
regular and real-time productions.

Notes to training and production:

1. It might be more effective if there is/are people who will take charge on
training new-hires.
2. Quality and intensive classroom sessions and discussions will definitely
improve everybodys knowledge on the field of work.
3. Cheatsheet is one thing to help everybody follow the different
specifications for every paper, but a more comprehensive and general list
of guidelines will be very helpful in production and error reduction. (e.g.
List of appropriate and inappropriate Design Style, applicable fillers for
each papers and page sets.
4. Leadership inside the group needs to be more visible and effective. (TLs and
QCs)