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Embrace your inner manager: Project management basics

Embrace your inner manager: Project management basics

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Embrace your inner manager: Project management basics

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- According to Cella's 2017 In-House Industry Report, half of all in-house creative teams do not have dedicated project managers. If your group falls into this bucket, then congrats to you; you've been promoted to a defacto project manager because someone's doing the project management, and if it isn't a dedicated project manager, then it's probably you. If this is the case, it's particularly important that you pay attention. Even if you have project managers, chances are, you engage in some level of project management in the flatter in-house team model. It also helps to understand project management basics so you can appreciate and support your PM team. Believe me, given they're on the client-facing frontlines, they can use all the help they can get. Project management involves pretty much what its name implies, managing projects. A bit more specifically though, project management is ensuring from project request to delivery and project closeout that all phases of the job are…

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