The Digital Project Manager

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.

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Episodes

How To Be An Invisible Project Manager (with Justin Handler from O3 World)

Is project management a thankless job, and should you strive to be an invisible PM? Ben Aston debates with Justin Handler how to do invisible project management; understanding technology, setting your team up for success, client and expectation management, and having difficult conversations.

Aug 22, 2017•38 min

Building & Scaling Project Management Teams (with Brian Kessman from Lodestar Digital)

Ben Aston chats with Brian Kessman about the best ways to build and scale a project management team, particularly within in agency. They cover everything from defining the purpose, getting the right people, establishing the right partnerships, setting in place the right processes and monitoring the PMO's performance.

Aug 18, 2017•41 min

Project Management Best Practices: What You Should Be Doing Each Month (with Joanna Leigh Simon from The Heads of State)

Ben Aston chats with Joanna Leigh Simon, discovering her personal DPM story and chatting about the project management best practices that you should be doing each month. Covering the whole gamut of a monthly project reset, discover how to enhance your workflow, decrease the daily stress, and keep your projects running smoothly.

Aug 04, 2017•49 min

What Exactly is a Digital Project Manager? Debunking The DPM Name Game (round table discussion)

Emily Carbonell-Ferguson hosts a roundtable discussion with Patrice Embry, Abby Fretz and Ben Aston on the sometimes confusing job titles we use as we progress through our DPM careers; digital project manager vs senior digital project manager vs producer vs account manager - what's it all about? Is there really any difference between us? Or should we be calling ourselves something different altogether?

Jul 21, 2017•51 min

Project Management Hacks (with Natalie Semczuk)

In this episode, Ben Aston chats with Natalie Semczuk about project management hacks, diving into the details of automation you can setup, tools you can use, techniques you can apply and philosophies to adopt that'll make your DPM life a whole lot easier.

Jul 13, 2017•38 min

Welcome To The DPM Podcast

In this inaugural Digital Project Manager podcast, Ben introduces the vision of the Digital Project Manager site, http://www.thedigitalprojectmanager.com, shares his story of becoming a DPM and gives an overview of what you can expect from this podcast.

Jul 10, 2017•15 min

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