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What's the role of a digital agency project manager?, with Nadine Schofield
What's the role of a digital agency project manager?, with Nadine Schofield
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Length:
39 minutes
Released:
Mar 9, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This episode is for you if you're in a digital agency project management role or are aspiring to work in project management in an agency. It's also for you if you're an agency leader who is looking to ensure the role of the project manager runs smoothly.
Nadine Schofield is the Founder of Project Management on Demand and she'll be sharing with us:
* The core (hard and soft) skills you need to be an effective project manager
* Where agencies go wrong with approaching project management
* The differences between an agile, waterfall and wagile way of working
* Differences between the role of the account manager and project manager and how they can work together efficiently
* The downsides of the hybrid role where the project management and account management function are in a combined role
* Some suggestions for how to decide which project management system to use in your agency
* How working from home has affected the project management role in agencies
* How a temporary project manager can be inserted into the agency for one off projects on an ad-hoc basis
* Some of the core processes you need for the project management role in your agency
Nadine Schofield is the Founder of Project Management on Demand and she'll be sharing with us:
* The core (hard and soft) skills you need to be an effective project manager
* Where agencies go wrong with approaching project management
* The differences between an agile, waterfall and wagile way of working
* Differences between the role of the account manager and project manager and how they can work together efficiently
* The downsides of the hybrid role where the project management and account management function are in a combined role
* Some suggestions for how to decide which project management system to use in your agency
* How working from home has affected the project management role in agencies
* How a temporary project manager can be inserted into the agency for one off projects on an ad-hoc basis
* Some of the core processes you need for the project management role in your agency
Released:
Mar 9, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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