I got published in an actual book, megalolz. The Gower Handbook of People in Project Management is a unique and rich compilation of over 60 chapters about project management roles and the people who sponsor, manage, work in or are otherwise important to project success.
A guest post by Jason Westland, CEO of Project Manager.com. There are lots of people who end up sponsoring digital projects, some much better than others. Here are five types of digital project sponsor to avoid if you can and what to do if you cannot.
On 29th July 2013, over 100 Digital Project Managers met at Microsoft’s office in London, UK for the very first Digital Project Management Workshop, sponsored by GatherContent and hosted by Brett Harned and myself aka Arnie and Danny DeVito. Want to know how it went?
UK-based Digital Project Managers. Happy Cog’s Brett Harned and I will be running the first Digital PM Workshop in London, UK on Monday 29th July at Microsoft’s swanky offices and sponsored by Gather Content. Tickets are selling fast so grab yours now.
When web design and development folk express their dislike for Digital Project Managers I like to ask questions. More often than not they’ve just had the misfortune of working with really shit ones. We’re not all bad and here is my plea to those giving us a bad reputation.
After having to keep it quiet for a little bit, I can now proudly announce I’ll be speaking at this year’s Digital PM Summit in Philadelphia alongside the likes of Jeffrey Zeldman, Michael Lopp, Carl Smith, Whitney Hess and more – kowafuckingbunga.
It had to happen eventually and Happy Cog are the guys to do it, organise the first conference specifically aimed at the digital project management and digital project managers – announcing the Digital PM Summit 2013. I believe the phrase “amazeballs” was meant for occasions like this.
Exciting new from Happy Cog… rumours of a digital project management conference! They’re looking for initial input on what people would want from such an event – for the love of all things good in the world, fill out the survey.
Yours truly has made an appearance in this month’s prestigious Project Management Institute (PMI) PM Network magazine in an article called “Negating Negativity”. To avoid now being seen as a proper grown up, please read on.
Hiring a decent Digital Project Manager is hard enough at the best of times, but the first real test is the interview. What should you ask a candidate before letting them loose on digital project management? Here’s a few questions I ask and why.
Work – check RSS feeds – work – check Twitter, reply to a few Tweets, read a few blog posts – work, keep Twitter open, reply to a few more Tweets, read a few more posts – work. This is fast becoming the ‘norm’ and an accepted culture wherever you find web developers, but should it be acceptable and is it valuable or just a crappy work ethic?
Due to team growth, the company I work for, globaldev, are looking to hire a new Digital Project Manager. Fancy joining the project management team?
Does managing Mobile digital projects differ from website projects? How about why you should consider working for a small, dysfunctional company? Timothy Quinn, Senior Director of Mobile Solutions at Transcontinental has the answers!
A summary of the latest goings on with this blog, recent digital projects, digital project management blogs, jobs and a thoroughly deserved quote that includes the phrase “cow spunk”.
As a Digital Project Manager you’re often faced with unrealistic demands and an ugly, but necessary, part of the job to highlight this. Doing this wrongly means you’re labelled as negative, but doing it right can mean you avoid the damaging label and get your digital project back on track.