Project Management
Get it Done Without the Drama
A good project manager has an innate sense of organization and discipline. She knows her tools and her team as well as her client’s goals and priorities.
A great project manager is able to improvise beyond all her careful planning because, to paraphrase the famous general, no plan survives contact with reality.
To find a project manager who can produce a reliable plan and manage a team to get it done right, you want to ascertain the following:
- What is her track record for accurate time and budget estimates?
- Is she able to communicate intelligibly with the various skill sets involved in the project–the designers, programmers, content strategists, producers, etc?
- Does she know which members of her team mean “7 hours” when they promise “5″?
- Does she command the respect to hold her team to her deadlines?
- Has she the guts to (tactfully) hold clients to their timeline?
- Can she think well on her feet to solve the inevitable problems that arise in the course of a project?
- And, of course, does she know how to use MS Project or Excel to plot a reliable project plan?
I’ve stacked the deck in my favor here, of course, because this is precisely what I bring to project management. Throughout my career I’ve been known as someone who runs high-performance, high-morale teams. I show my team a high level of respect and have high expectations of them in return. I over-communicate with my team and my client to unearth problems as early in the process as possible–oftentimes circumventing them altogether. (Early detection is useful with more than just cancer.)
So, if you’re looking for someone who can not just develop your strategy but execute it as well, I’m exactly the person you need.
Contact me to see what I can do for your organization.
