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Digital Project Management
oDigital project management is a streamlined process of
managing online projects from concept to completion within
budget and using a certain amount of resources. It involves,
o planning, delegating, tracking, reviewing, and
measuring results.
ousually all done using a project management software.
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Digital Project Management
DEVELOPMENT.
o Keep the software developers up-to-date, and aligned
with the current business strategy. What is the
prioritization and why? Make sure everybody is on the
same page.
UX / DESIGN
o Work with the user experience and design teams to
deliver the maximum quality output based on the
prioritizations and current business strategy. User
experience is after all what keeps customers happy and
loyal.
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QUALITY ASSURANCE.
o QA goes hand-in-hand with UX. Keep the teams aligned,
and ensure a continuous proactive, progressive and
quality-based development. Focus on value for the
customer.
BUSINESS ANALYSIS.
o Make sure the business is profitable at all times, or at
least working towards a growing profitable state. Analyze
your project portfolio, and focus on the most valuable
projects and clients. Value is key to a successful business.
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Digital Project Management
STRATEGY .
o Develop and fine-tune your strategy on a regular basis.
Strategy is the top-level foundation on which to build the
rest of the business upon. Make sure itâs healthy and
flexible.
ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT.
o Keep important clients and relations engaged at all times.
A major part of running a successful business is to build
relationships between people, big and small.
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COLLABORATION.
o A collaborative environment across teams is probably the
most important factor for a healthy progressive business.
Keep everybody engaged and satisfied as you would your
important clients. Those people are the ones that will
build the value your clients pay for.
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Digital/IT Project Management Process
Idea/requirements and rough estimation.
o Before the start of the project, there is the idea. It might
be a customerâs idea or the product ownerâs idea. The idea
is then transformed into requirements and estimation in
time, money and other resources is provided based on the
requirements.
initiation documentation.
o If the customer or the product owner (stakeholders)
agrees with the estimation you are going to have a
contract or project initiation document signed.
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Digital/IT Project Management Process
Inception meeting.
o Inception meeting (with all project team members) purpose is
not only to introduce the team members to each other. The
project manager should organize the inception meeting with
prepared project plan to discuss and approve by the other team
members. Everybody in the team should know âwhatâ and
âwhenâ is about to happen (different stages) and also âwhoâ is
responsible for every specific task.
Detailed requirements and specifications
o The project manager and the product owner/customer should
sit together and go through the requirements and get into
details to clarify any queries. Clarified and detailed
requirements are important so the transformation to well
written specifications could happen.
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Digital/IT Project Management Process
Mock-up and design.
o The mock-up is just the outline of the visual structure of any
design or feature. If you are going to manage a huge web
project â mock-ups are mandatory to save a lot of time and
resources. Once there is an agreement over the mock-ups the
designers could finish the actual design (colors, buttons,
backgrounds, fonts, fancy items, etc...)
Development/Coding.
o The beta development could start even before the design. The
back-end system is the backbone of your digital/web project.
Every piece of data you see on the frontend is coming from
database/code and the back-end developers ensure that the
back-end system works without any flaws. Any critical and
major defects/bugs should be fixed during beta
revisions/development.
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Final revisions and polishing.
o This is the stage where you need to involve the product owner a
lot to ensure they/he/she is satisfied with the results. Any
smaller issues should be addressed before the digital/web
project is about to go live.
Going live and demo meeting.
o When you manage large digital/web projects it is important to
allocate enough time and resources for the âgoing liveâ stage.
Sometimes you need to ensure the hardware is going to stably
sustain the traffic and the load and work closely with the
system administrators too. It is always good to have a demo
meeting in the end of every project, where the project
manager, the product owner and/or the team members present
the projectâs features.
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Maintenance and Support.
o These should be ongoing. Any future developments are
better to be managed as separate projects and not just
under support and maintenance.
Hinweis der Redaktion
Using a project management tool can be of great advantage, since this gives the team and project manager a central hub that connects the whole team, and becomes the go-to-place for all of your data and files. If a task needs to get moved to another person, it only takes a click of a button, and that particular team member has everything he or she needs; all the files, comments, estimations, and so forth. Or, if you need an extra person working on a task, you can easily pick one thatâs available, and get things going in no time.
There are many great tools out there; all with different combinations of features and user experiences. Ours, Forecast, uses machine-learning to forecast your future estimates on the task-level and all the way up. It uses previous data collected on the business, and across organizations, the type of project, the type of task, the people involved, and the labels assigned to the task. All of these are parts of the algorithm, which helps you in predicting time and budget across all of your projects. In the end, giving you more reliable and actionable insights on your business, and making you able to deliver profitable projects on time, and on budget.