The Digital Project Manager

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.

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. 

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. 

Ever managed a super short project? Learn real-life tips for short projects in this episode, where PM Jenna Trunzo discusses the case study she conducted after managing a 2-week project. Learn what worked, and why—and what she had to change in order to deliver a project within such a short time frame. 

Feeling strung out? Isolated? Indifferent? In this DPM podcast, we take a pause to talk about an important topic for digital workers: burnout. Join Lynn Winters as she shares her burnout stories and gives tips for identifying and recovering from burnout. 

Get the scoop on all the latest from The Digital Project Manager in February 2019—new case studies, podcasts, and articles to help you deliver better projects!