The Digital Project Manager

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.