The Digital Project Manager is the home of digital project management inspiration, how-to guides, tips, tricks, tools, funnies, and jobs. We provide project management guidance for the digital wild west where demanding stakeholders, tiny budgets and stupid deadlines reign supreme.
How to bridge the gap between exploration and launch? Douglas Ferguson, entrepreneur and human-centered technologist, gives a 6 step plan to follow after a design sprint so you can release something into the wild.
Learn from agile coacher, speaker, and author Jeff Gothelf about working backwards to go forward with less risk and more confidence in your projects.
Create an agile framework for your org—learn from David Bishop, technologist, consultant, entrepreneur, and author of a book on a novel concept called "Metagility".
Discover how to reduce complexity and confusion by breaking down your projects into bite-sized pieces that everyone can understand.
Discover why scope statements will save your (project) bacon. Learn how to write bullet-proof scope statements, and use them in your projects.
What does it take to go from manager to leader? Hear from Susanne Madsen, internationally recognized leadership coach and consultant.
Do you ever think to yourself, there must be a better way of doing this? Why does this project have to be so painful? The good news is there probably is a better way, and your curiosity might just be the catalyst for making change happen. Today I'm joined by Dr. Diane Hamilton. the Founder and CEO of Tonerra and Co-Founder of DIMA Innovations, nationally syndicated radio host, keynote speaker, author, and the former MBA Program Chair at the Forbes School of Business. Her groundbreaking work in t...
If you, like me, are nervous to get your team in front of clients, keep listening: we'll talk about the benefits of client-facing teams and how you, as a project manager, can help pull it off.
Whether you're moving in, out, or across project management, career transition can be incredibly difficult. Today, I'm joined by Eric Wright, military vet, doctor of business, keynote speaker, coach, and founder of Vets2PM and the Veteran Project Management Mentor Alliance. He met his fair share of career transition hurdles, so now he's helping others and talking about how other people can make more successful transitions in their careers.
In this episode, CEO and Co-founder of Kanbanize Dimitar Karaivanov shares his expertise on how to become more agile through a kanban approach.
Tired of working hard on a project only to have sneaky bugs get in the way at the final UAT? In this episode, I'm joined with DPM expert and product coach Michael Luchen where we discuss the power of a quality management plan in order to get things done right and improve product and process.
Looking to grow your PM toolkit and improve processes and efficiency within projects? In today's episode, I'm joined with Sally Woolston where we discuss how we can develop more efficient processes, choose the right tools for our projects, and roll them out across the organization.
In this episode, Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez—author of “The Project Revolution”, "Lead Successful Projects" and “The Focused Organization”—tells the story of project-based work through the centuries. This perspective puts the role of project managers in a new light, showing how projects, the universal model of collaboration, are the driving force behind the major accomplishments in our civilization.
It's one thing to learn risk management theory, but how do you actually manage risk in real life? In this episode, Kiron Bondale shares his expertise and insights on project risk management strategies and lessons-learned from his years of experience.
There's no comparing when it comes to leadership and management. They're both very important. And there isn't one right way of doing either. In this episode, Rebecca Germond explains the difference between managing and leading and how to utilize the traits of both to become a rockstar PM.
What is the most valuable asset any project manager can have? Trust. In this episode, I talk with Mike Clayton, author of 14 print books on project management, about the components of trust—credibility, reliability, intimacy—and how to earn the trust of your colleagues and clients.
An interview with Rich Butkevic, PMP and CSM, about how things fall through the cracks on a corporate website projects so you can prevent them from happening in yours!
In this episode, we tackle the golden question: how do you scale agile teams and organizations? Following up on his article on "The Hard Truth About Scalability", Software Architect, Programmer, Coach, and Consultant Giovanni Asproni talks about the pitfalls of scaling agile—and how to avoid them.
Following her article on How To Write An Employee Handbook, PMP certified project/program manager and strategy consultant Sarah Hoban shares her thoughts on how we as project managers can help onboard new employees the right way.
A must-listen episode for anyone in account or project management who finds themselves stuck in a perpetual cycle of chasing down clients for files and assets. We talk with James Rose, Co-Founder of Content Snare, a tool designed to help agencies get the right files from clients, on time, and in the right format. Yes, please!
There is no one-size-fits-all management style that works. In this podcast, we dig into the good and the bad of various management styles: Results-based, Democratic, Transformational, Servant Leadership, Transactional. We talk about how personality plays into it, and which styles have worked best for us—and why.
How do you give useful feedback to people on your team, even when you don’t have domain expertise? Do you embrace the feedback process, or run from it? Today, we chat with Ryan Schaefer, a digital agency PM who’s worked with brands like Dole Foods and Disney, as he explains how to give great feedback that’ll help your teams deliver better work and keep your projects on track.
In this episode, we join Kelly Suter (as of her last episode, she was in a Technical PM role; now she’s an Executive Producer at Mirum agency) to talk about stakeholder management. Learn her expert tips for managing various types of stakeholders—clients, technical stakeholders, executives, and more.
Pick the brains of Tomislav Car, the CEO at Infinum, an independent software design and development agency that Tom co-founded while a college student. He went on to create Productive, a web-based agency management tool built to fix the problems his own agency was then experiencing. Learn about managing a profitable agency and using tools to be more productive from a Founder and CEO with a deep understanding of how agencies really work.
A project objective describes the “what” of your project. But a well-defined project objective does so much more—it wraps your deadline, your KPIs, and your process all into one guiding statement. Listen to PMP and CSM certified Mackenzie Dysart as she talks about how to write objectives that truly guide your projects.
Learn about agile-based contracts from Tucker Sauer-Pivonka, Director of Product Management at an agency that uses something called a “Duration & Price” contract. He dives into his DPM Case Study to talk about why this contract works for their agency and the practicalities of implementing it with clients.
Ever managed a super short project? Learn real-life tips for short projects in this episode, where PM Jenna Trunzo discusses the case study she conducted after managing a 2-week project. Learn what worked, and why—and what she had to change in order to deliver a project within such a short time frame.
Feeling strung out? Isolated? Indifferent? In this DPM podcast, we take a pause to talk about an important topic for digital workers: burnout. Join Lynn Winters as she shares her burnout stories and gives tips for identifying and recovering from burnout.
Building a web portal? In this episode, Rebecca Germond (Director of Client Services at FCV) dives into the tools, processes, and day-to-day challenges specific to managing a portal build. Ace your web portal build as you learn from her team’s real-life mistakes and success stories.
Get the scoop on all the latest from The Digital Project Manager in February 2019—new case studies, podcasts, and articles to help you deliver better projects!
