This Presentation is about the overview of Digital Project Management. The role of Digital project Manager and the additional skills required for project manager to compete in digital world
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Software Project
Management
IS THE ART AND SCIENCE OF PLANNING AND LEADING SOFTWARE PROJECTS [1].
Software project management comprises of a number of activities, which contains
planning of project, deciding scope of software product, estimation of cost in various
terms, scheduling of tasks and events, and resource management.
4. The job pattern of an IT company engaged
in software development can be split in two
parts:
• SOFTWARE CREATION
• SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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6. By 2017, global business-to-customer (B2C) eCommerce sales are expected to reach $2.3 trillion. Given the
amazing growth of online marketing and eCommerce [3].
8. Digital Project Management?
Digital project management is a process of managing online projects from concept to
completion within budget and using a certain amount of resources.
11. Development:
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:
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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12. Quality Assurance:
Quality assurance goes hand-in-hand with UX. Keep the teams aligned, and ensure a
continuous proactive, progressive and quality-based development.
Business analysis:
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.
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13. Strategy:
Develop and refine your strategy on a regular basis. Strategy is the top-level
foundation on which to build the rest of the business upon. Make sure it’s healthy and
flexible.
Account Management:
Keep important clients and relations engaged at all times. A major part of
running a successful business is to build relationships between people.
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14. Collaboration:
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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15. About Methodology:
Some of the most popular project management methodologies fall into either waterfall or Agile.
Agile is a much more evolved methodology: built on the backbone of flexibility and collaboration. While
waterfall has a strict plan to follow, Agile approaches give the team the ability to respond to change
quickly and efficiently.
16. The Manifesto for Agile
Software Development
Individuals and Interactions over processes and tools
Working Software over comprehensive documentation
Customer Collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to Change over following a plan
18. Digital Project Manager
The role of a digital project manager might include additional
responsibilities, such as:
Business development
Digital Strategist
Account Manager
Quality Assurance Specialist
19. Business Development:
Project management requires an understanding of the client’s needs and a strong
development of client trust. Your mutual relation with the client may give you even
greater influence on the client’s purchasing decisions than your sales team has.
Digital Strategist:
Often clients don’t have a clear vision of the project. This can work in your
favor to gently guide clients through the discovery and design process with
your knowledge of web architecture, user experience, design, content,
search engine optimization, social media and analytics.
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20. Account Manager:
As someone who works closely with clients, you will practice the art of setting and
adjusting client expectations. This could involve knowing which issues your team can
handle and which need to be delegated.
Quality Assurance Specialist:
It is your responsibility to set the standards for quality testing. By working
closely with the client, you understand the refinements of the project. You
also know that client satisfaction is about more than just meeting
requirements on a specification sheet.
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21. A little bit challenging:
Digital project management can be challenging. You may have to deal with mixed teams, all with
different roles and responsibilities, and manage tight budgets and deadlines. And you have to
keep,
Strong Understanding of Digital Sector.
Best suited technology for their client and
projects
Constantly be on the look-out of the latest and
emerging digital technologies.
22. Skills for a Digital Project Manager
Digital project managers require a slightly different set of skills than traditional
project managers. In addition to traditional project management tool sets, the
digital project manager should be adept at:
o Using Content Management Systems (CMS)
o Understanding Information Architecture
o Interpreting Analytics
o Writing in HTML
o Employing Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
o Managing Social Media
23. Tools for Digital Project
Management
Wrike
Active Collab
Teamdeck
synergist
Paymo, etc.
24. References:
1. Stellman, Andrew; Greene, Jennifer (2005). Applied Software Project Management. O'Reilly
Media. ISBN 978-0-596-00948-9
2. Software Project Management. Retrieved from
www.tutorialspoint.com/software_engineering/software_project_management.htm
3. An Overview of Digital Project Management. Retrieved from
https://www.villanovau.com/resources/project-management/an-overview-of-digital-project-
management/#.WnnYGOnhjIU
4. Digital Project Management Tools. Retrieved from https://thedigitalprojectmanager.com
5. What is digital project management? . Retrieved from https://blog.forecast.it/blog/what-is-digital-
project-management
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