

The Digital Project Manager
Galen Low and Kelsey Alpaio
The Digital Project Manager is the home of digital project management inspiration, how-to guides, tips, tricks, tools, funnies, and jobs. We provide project management guidance for the digital wild west where demanding stakeholders, tiny budgets and stupid deadlines reign supreme.
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Sep 7, 2017 • 24min
Artificial Intelligence & The Future of Project Management (with Dennis Kayser from Forecast)
Will our jobs as project managers be taken over by artificial intelligent PM bots? Discover in this podcast with Dennis Kayser from Forecast.it and learn about how they're using artificial intelligence and machine learning to help project managers make better decisions and automate repetitive PM tasks.

Aug 22, 2017 • 37min
How To Be An Invisible Project Manager (with Justin Handler from O3 World)
Is project management a thankless job, and should you strive to be an invisible PM? Ben Aston debates with Justin Handler how to do invisible project management; understanding technology, setting your team up for success, client and expectation management, and having difficult conversations.

Aug 18, 2017 • 40min
Building & Scaling Project Management Teams (with Brian Kessman from Lodestar Digital)
Ben Aston chats with Brian Kessman about the best ways to build and scale a project management team, particularly within in agency. They cover everything from defining the purpose, getting the right people, establishing the right partnerships, setting in place the right processes and monitoring the PMO's performance.

Aug 4, 2017 • 48min
Project Management Best Practices: What You Should Be Doing Each Month (with Joanna Leigh Simon from The Heads of State)
Ben Aston chats with Joanna Leigh Simon, discovering her personal DPM story and chatting about the project management best practices that you should be doing each month. Covering the whole gamut of a monthly project reset, discover how to enhance your workflow, decrease the daily stress, and keep your projects running smoothly.

Jul 21, 2017 • 51min
What Exactly is a Digital Project Manager? Debunking The DPM Name Game (round table discussion)
Experienced digital project managers Patrice Embry and Abby Fretz, along with producer and account manager Ben Aston, discuss the confusion and differences in job titles within the digital project management field. They explore the hierarchy and growth opportunities, client-facing aspect, challenges in project management within the pharmaceutical sector, evolving nature of the role, the importance of project ownership, transitioning to product management, and the impact of job titles on career trajectory.

Jul 13, 2017 • 38min
Project Management Hacks (with Natalie Semczuk)
In this episode, Ben Aston chats with Natalie Semczuk about project management hacks, diving into the details of automation you can setup, tools you can use, techniques you can apply and philosophies to adopt that'll make your DPM life a whole lot easier.

Jul 10, 2017 • 14min
Welcome To The DPM Podcast
In this inaugural Digital Project Manager podcast, Ben introduces the vision of the Digital Project Manager site, http://www.thedigitalprojectmanager.com, shares his story of becoming a DPM and gives an overview of what you can expect from this podcast.