Category archive for ‘Web Project Management’

Web project managers’ world

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 [...]

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Learning from one’s mistakes

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, [...]

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The 2008 web project managers’ census

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 [...]

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PMBOK and agile development

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 [...]

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Web Project Management FAQ

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 [...]

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Le Web ’08 – Itay Talgam

In a very interesting speech Itay Talgam, Israeli conductor of orchestras and musician, talked about leadership and “love” as seen from the perspective of music and conductors. The idea of music and love go well together. Love, in particular, is an easy object for music. When you just love music everything is easy, but when [...]

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Introduction to web project management

Update: I recently wrote the Web Project Management FAQs If you look at my profile you’ll see that I work as a web project manager. But what does a web project manager do and, consequently, what is web project management? A web project manager is a professional that deals with the management and coordination of a web [...]

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