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Key Considerations for Creating the Right Project Management Infrastructure Coming February 2018 for free download The world of project management is more complicated than most people realize. It isn't about just organizing a group of tasks and then executing on those tasks. It's much more than that. It's all about first defining a project practice that will work, then building structure around that practice, then executing on that practice, etc... |
Available for free download. Click on the cover image to the left to go to the download page for this eBook. Creative project stakeholders. They’re everywhere. They aren’t just your executives or your team members or the creative project sponsors. Some are heavily involved in the creative project, some you’ll see or hear from once and some you won’t hear from at all. Some will have financial involvement and some will just want to know when the campaign or marketing undertaking is complete. But they are out there. And you have to make room for them — they are very important to the creative project. |
Available for free download. Click on the cover image to the left to go to the download page for this eBook. It would be nice if money weren’t an issue. It can get in the way of our creative juices. And we can’t continue to operate very long if we are not profitable. We may lose money on any given project, and that’s OK as long as our organization is sustainable and it gives us a strategic advantage. But long term, we need to make money to survive. Therefore, paying attention to the bottom line as we manage the creative process is critical. |
Available for free download. Click on the cover image to the left to go to the download page for this eBook. With any project management undertaking, making sure that it gets off on the right foot is critical. You know the saying; “You only get one chance to make a good first impression.” Just as important is how you shut things down; the little – and big – things you do to make sure all of your bases are covered, the client is pleased with how things went and senior management views the outcome positively. |
Available for free download. Click on the cover image to the left to go to the download page for this eBook. The process of handing a project engagement from sales to project management is definitely one of my pet peeves. Many a project has started out on the wrong foot because the earliest – and very critical – high-level scoping phase of the project is often being performed by someone without any formal project management experience. The end result? A project customer who walks away happy that they will be getting ‘x’, a sales person who walks away happy because they sold ‘y’ for top dollar, and a project manager who is getting ‘z’ to deliver. |
Available for free download. Click on the cover image to the left to go to the download page for this eBook. Any project — be it a creative industry project, a very technical project, a business strategy or process project, or something in between — is usually going to comprise the same basic key project functional roles. The roles don’t change much, but the expertise and background of the individuals filling those roles will change depending on the process, technology, industry and strategy involved in the project. |