As a Web Project Manager you’re often faced with unrealistic demands and an ugly, but necessary, part of the job to highlight this. Doing this wrongly means you’re labelled as negative, but doing it right can mean you avoid the damaging label and get your web project back on track.

A Web Project Manager should never seek the easy life, instead his or hers aim should be to make the lives of their web project team as easy, productive and stress free as possible. Stop blaming your web designers and developers and start to help them do their job.

Some Web Project Managers believe resolving an internal team issue is the job for their line manager, but I disagree. I believe this responsibility lies with the Web Project Manager if it is causing project problems. Read why and how to resolve some common issues.

After reading Rafael Mumme’s hilarious article on .net, where he lists 20 things that make web developers crazy, I just couldn’t resist… so here I go, all guns blazing with just a few of the things that drive Web Project Managers crazy when working with web designers and developers.

What’s one of the first things many do after winning a new web project… design the homepage? In my opinion this is one of the biggest mistakes you can make when starting to manage a web project! Find out why I refuse to produce designs for ages when in web project management mode.

A golden tip for all Web Project Managers out there is to always send your clients a weekly web project status report. Not only is the sign of a great professional service, but it will prove invaluable when it comes to maintaining project momentum and seeking additional schedule time or budget.

Do you ever get back from a long web project management meeting, where you discussed a multitude of complex functionality and web project requirements, only to find your notes resemble a collection of unintelligible scribbles and random drawings of swirls? Then perhaps it’s time to fire up the Excalibur of web project meetings – the digital voice recorder.

Find out a few more things all the hard working and passionate Web Project Managers out there want more than money. In this article I talk about reliable web project management support staff and understanding digital production teams.

Web Project Managers are some of the most passionate and hard working people out there, and because of this hardly any are really motivated by money. There are a few things they would gladly take over any pay rise that would make them much less of a Mr. Grumpy Gills.

While watching the latest Saw movie and seeing just how complex the plot was, with interconnecting stories from Saw 1 through to Saw 6, I realised that despite Jigsaw being a little disturbed, he is actually a fantastic project manager who could teach us all a thing or two about managing projects – what a guy!

When working as a Web Project Manager, sometimes you just know the latest request from a client is just plain wrong. But how can you go about explaining to the client they’re wrong? Read my latest article published on Smashing Magazine for some advice on dealing with this delicate situation.

We laugh at them, we snipe at them, we write hate-filled blog posts about them and we want them to die! But like them or loathe them, the fact is an awful lot of people use Windows and Internet Explorer to view the websites you build for clients. As Web Project Managers we just can’t afford to take the same stance as the cool kids!

Whether you’re a Web Project Manager or not, working in a small web company means you will undoubtedly have to act as a Digital Account Manager at one time or another. But what is good Digital Account Management, what skill set do you need and what makes a great Digital Account Manager?

Like it or loathe it, when working in a small web agency as a Web Project Manager you will have to perform Account Management duties, it’s as simple as that. But why should you actually embrace the opportunity rather than shun it and how can you go about managing the additional work load?

When hired as a Web Project Manager you expect to spend your days managing web projects. So why is it you always seem to end up performing Account Management tasks that appear out of nowhere and drain your valuable time and why do some hate it so much?