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Creative Project Reporting - What's Most Important?
Status reporting is a given…a necessary aspect of just about any creative project of any type. You have a delivery organization, you have a client, you have stakeholders. Everyone needs...
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The Many Faces of Creative Project Reporting
Oh so many ways of reporting information on a project. What’s your favorite? Status reports? Budget health? Financial forecast? Resource forecast? Issues? Change orders? Risk log? Project schedule...
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The Distributed Creative Team - Pulling it All Together
If your creative team is working in different places all around the country or perhaps all over the world...how do you pull them all together? Somehow we must maintain a cohesive team that is moving as...
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The Creative Project Status Report
You drive the project meetings on a weekly basis – both with your creative team and with your ad, marketing, campaign or design client. Communication and collaboration is critical, and at the heart of...
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How Do You Track Issues on Creative Projects?
It would be nice if issues were never an issue – pardon the pun. But they are - on every project. Something comes up that needs to be assigned, tracked down, and resolved. And until it’s resolved, it...
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How Did We Pull That Creative Project Off?
As much as we’d like to say what we do is world conquering, end all, cutting edge, state of the art project management… in the end it is, well, project management. And as far as project reporting goes,...
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Book Review: Peter Taylor's "Real Project Management"
The skills and capabilities you WILL need for successful project deliveryReal Project Management. What does that mean? Is there unreal project management? Is there project management that is...
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Retaining the Exiting Creative Client
Unfortunately, clients come and go. And they do so for a variety of reasons. You can be the best consultant, ad agency, marketing guru or web designer, and if your small to medium sized client with...
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As a Project Management Professional, What Makes You Creative?
First let us consider... Are you an intentional project manager/creative director, or are you an accidental project manager/leader of a creative team? The difference? One chose to be there and the...
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Pulling Off a Great Creative Project Meeting
Pulling off the perfect creative project meeting – although a truly perfect meeting is nearly impossible – is an important goal of the PM process. Some of the ingredients for a perfect meeting are...
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The Art of Knowing When to Meet on the Creative Project
There is a lot to be said about project meetings. Daily creative team meetings, weekly project status meetings, agile projects and traditional waterfall projects, how best to engage the client on the...
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Q & A with "Real Project Management" Author Peter Taylor
In a recent article, I reviewed Peter Taylor's most recent book, "Real Project Management." The book is a great read that I highly recommend for new project managers, experienced project managers,...
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Planning for Risk on Your Creative Project
I’d like to discuss risk management on our creative projects. It seems even more appropriate now that we have learned in the last few days that hackers from outside the US have somehow managed to...
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Make Client Reporting (and Client Relationships) Awesome with Workamajig
You might ask, “Why is client reporting important?” You probably won’t ask that, actually, because it seems obvious — it’s about communicating with your clients and keeping them in the loop. It’s...
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What 3 Things Would You Do Differently on Your Last Creative Project?
If you had to do it all over again on your most recent creative project – what would you do differently this time around? What sort of “lessons” did you learn? You know how they say on your deathbed...
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What is Workamajig?
This post originally appeared on The Ohio State University - University Communications Blog. To read more great content like this, click here. The Project Manager assembles a team of experts to discuss...
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The Case of the Over-Communicative Creative Project Manager
I have always contended that communication – good, efficient, effective communication – is Job #1 for the successful project manager. That said, how much is necessary? Who needs to see what? And when...
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What are You Looking for in Your Next Creative Project Lead Hire?
You need to hire some new skilled individuals for your creative organization – specifically you need some new creative project leadership or project management resources. What are you looking for in...
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Why Wait for a Creative Project Kickoff?
You know the process: you get a project and everyone is eager to get started. New work. Possibly work that involves new tools or plans or is in an unfamiliar industry. You want to get started. Or maybe...
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How Creative is Too Creative?
There is a house going up across the street from us that is much, much different than the other houses in the area. It’s being built in the middle of a bunch of other horse properties, but it is not...
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