PM2PM - Project Management in a Digital Agency Environment

I try to use analogies that help stakeholders get their heads around some of the abstract concepts floating around in a marketing environmen...

It's tough to make predictions - especially about the future.                                                                     - Yog...

Below is one of the best articulations (definitely one of the most humorous) of why there needs to be a person or party looking holisticall...

I sent out a survey to some of the industry’s foremost interactive and integrated agency Project Management leaders to get at some of the m...

It's that time of year - where that is a variable for things like: "holiday", "peace", "joy", "depr...

One of Project Managers' most important roles is to drive continual improvement. In a multi-agenda, multi-stakeholder environment this p...

If nothing else, being a PM in an agency environment is about achieving balance. I'm just going to skim the surface of this topic in thi...

This one, "The Vendor Client relationship - in real world situations", has been making the rounds. I've already heard from sev...

For the purposes of this post, let's consider Project Manager and Producer roles the same thing. There is certainly no clear distinction...

Industry talk is tantalizing. Externally, ai ded in great part by the plethora of awards, trade pubs and blogs, buzz tends to center around ...

Last week I attended the Leadership Forum run by AdMonsters , the association dedicated to online advertising operations and technology. As ...

"Is there a signed Scope of Work (SOW)?" is one of the most frequently asked and important questions that comes up in an agency. ...

A discussion in the Advertising Professional group on LinkedIn, posted by Charisse Louis of Charene Graphic Design , stirred up some unpleas...

Stakes are higher now than ever for success - actually, high stakes for our survival are more like it. The level of dysfunction between agen...

It's a commonly held best-practice to perform a Post-Mortem session following a project - especially one that doesn't go very well. ...

I have developed and deployed numerous tools, techniques and templates that assist in completing high-quality projects on-time, on-budget an...

Not being able to find the soft copy (the latest version!) of a printed document is pretty high on the list of things at an agency that driv...

Successfully managing client relationships, especially in these pressured times, takes the combined efforts of skilled interactive agency pr...

This is a send up to entry-level Project Managers. At 0 - 1 year of experience, vetted for the core PM skills: intelligence, work ethic and...

The premise here is simple: aligning agencies and clients around results, rather than squabbling about costs and time, which further drives ...

You may have heard the old saying, "Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan". Ironic and appropriate that the source of...

I was surfing the ad agency advocate sites and came across the Advertising Educational Foundation (AEF), which initially drew my ire. When ...

Here's a refreshing topic from Andreas Roell and Sarah Kotlova of Geary Interactive in the iMEDIA Connection newsletter: 6 reasons agen...

The relationship between the Account Management and Project Management teams is one that needs constant attention and definition. Like any p...

An interesting bit of insight about the inherent contradiction of running a business that relies in great part on intangibles like creativit...

This is for all you PM's out there who are constantly trying to make the spot between the rock and the hard place better for all. I'...