Web project management in action

I am not a professional speaker at conferences: I do it on my spare time and usually no more than twice a year. But there are some things I learned and that I want to share with you. No, I’m not talking about using a Presentation Zen or Slide:ology approach because, as it was clear [...]

Sam Barnes, a web project manager based in Windsor, had the great idea of organizing a series of interviews with some web project managers. There’s also one with me. In the 30 questions I address many topics, more or less serious, from the tools that help in the web project management discipline to the reasons [...]

Some projects fail. Once I received this email from one of our clients: Good morning [account manager] and Antonio, we want to express our disappointment regarding your behavior and the work done. We believe that the many requests and modifications we are asking you are a direct consequence of your work. We refer, in particular, [...]

In April the webzine A List Apart published the findings from a survey that – for the second year – tries to highlight patterns and behaviours among web job titles. Last year I isolated some information regarding web project managers [in Italian] so it’s quite interesting to compare this hypothesis with the new findings. There [...]

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) is considered the bible of project management. Bible in that it deals with every facet of project management by means of 5 process groups (initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, closing). Bible also for its size, more than 400 pages packed with concepts that often [...]

Last saturday in Ljubljana (Slovenia) I attended my first barcamp. Or, better, I attended the first barcamp worthy of its name. The success of this initiative has to be equally shared between organizers, speakers and the ones that filled the rooms. The organizers set a simple, yet winning formula: 20 minutes for every speech including [...]

This article contains answers to several questions I receive regarding web project management and can be considered a sequel to what I wrote in Introduction to web project management. It’s a starting point. If you think that there are some aspects that deserve to be deepened you can use comments or the contact page. What [...]

End one of Le Web ’08 in Paris ends here. Here are some citations and feelings from today Le Web ’08 that I agree with: We yet have to see the consequences of this economical crisis (during the panel Getting financed in a recession) I hope the market will fall down till people understand what [...]

Mike Butcher from TechCrunch noted that year 2007 saw lot of activity concerning European startups, with Webex, Double click,Reuters, Aquantive being the more productive. Market clearly picked last year, but then prices started to fall. Recent investments were: networks go niche (the updown, kindo, visible path) advertisers get smarter (adinfuse, smaato, consorte) everything goes mobile [...]

Paulo Coelho in the past refused to give rights in order to make films from his books but, starting with the Witch of Portobello he started a project. Coelho has asked aspiring filmmakers to tell the tale from the point of view of one of the 13 characters in the book. He had an impressive [...]