Getting Things Done | Too Many Cooks

We are organising a conference in September.

There are a few of us in charge of different parts of the event.

Me & 4 others are handling internal promotions & the website.

Initial design was agreed & thorough content was provided by another colleague. 

This colleague had handled many academic conferences in the past & has the complete templates for use.

What transpired was something else:
- another Professor invited herself and wanted to promote her event, riding on our conference promotions

- amongst us there were many 'idea contributors' that confused the website designers

- the website designers did not consider UI/ UX and the design came out below par

- a UI/UX designer has to be brought in by another colleague, who doesn't have the heart to let a sub-par website be released to the world

- the sponsors had some ideas too & more changes had to be made to the website and posters

We made the website request in March. The website to this still had additions/ changes to make in June 2023, however we can now safely promote the link without causing shock & horror.

Moral of the story: don't get involved? 

Must learn resolve & not comment at all, UNLESS I'm willing to get involved all the way. 

The less I know the better.