The Digital Project Manager

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How To Project Manage A Corporate Website Build (With Rich Butkevic From Project Zendo) Dec 16, 2019

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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!

Scaling Agile (With Giovanni Asproni From Zuhlke Engineering Limited) Nov 25, 2019

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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.

Onboarding The Right Way (With Sarah Hoban From Booz Allen Hamilton) Nov 13, 2019

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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.

How To Get Website Content From Clients (With James Rose From Content Snare) Nov 06, 2019

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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!

Management Styles (With Tucker Sauer-Pivonka From Crema) Sep 05, 2019

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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.

Give Your Colleagues Better Feedback (With Ryan Schaefer From Viget) Aug 26, 2019

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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.

How To Manage Stakeholders (With Kelly Suter From Mirum Agency) Jul 09, 2019

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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.

Managing Project Budgets And Profitability (With Tomislav Car From Infinum) Jul 09, 2019

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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.

SMART Project Objectives (With Mackenzie Dysart From Reason One) Jul 01, 2019

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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.

Switching From Waterfall To Duration & Price Contracts (With Tucker Sauer-Pivonka From Crema) Jun 24, 2019

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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.

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