In the best scenarios project management practices are somewhat rigid, fairly structured, repeatable, and somewhat boring. Unless you really love it, you may be hard pressed to find anyone who would say it really helps get their creative project management juices flowing. But I have found myself that there are creative things you can do when managing projects without ruining the structure of the project and that sticking to the methodology and processes in place help to ensure – rather than hinder the final successful outcome of the project at hand.
Understandably, managing any design or creative projects requires a clearly defined and followed methodology. For complex tasks the project manager must be vigilant and detailed. This is not to say you need to be 'hands-on' and constantly interfering - absolutely not - creative people need to be given freedom to use their abilities or you might as well ask an accountant to do the job (no offense to accountants). However, you as project manager - or the client - need to allow for and anticipate everything that can arise. The key to this is establishing clear positive open communications at the outset, and then maintaining full mutual understanding at all times, irrespective of how much freedom is delegated.
Understandably, managing any design or creative projects requires a clearly defined and followed methodology. For complex tasks the project manager must be vigilant and detailed. This is not to say you need to be 'hands-on' and constantly interfering - absolutely not - creative people need to be given freedom to use their abilities or you might as well ask an accountant to do the job (no offense to accountants). However, you as project manager - or the client - need to allow for and anticipate everything that can arise. The key to this is establishing clear positive open communications at the outset, and then maintaining full mutual understanding at all times, irrespective of how much freedom is delegated.
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