Freelancing jobs can implode for a huge variety of reasons, including mistakes on our part - being overbooked, unfocused, distracted by personal life issues, etc. Sometimes it feels like our clients are lobbing grenades into the project – delays, miscommunications and indecision are common. Stack too many of these issues in one project, and we have the ingredients for a total project meltdown.

As the service provider we need to be in control of the experience at all times. We need to be like construction forepersons, guiding our freelancing jobs through a documented process that has structural guardrails preventing the worst kinds of project killers. What we need is a workflow blueprint.