[webproducers] Re: In search of web producer job description

From my experience, the Project Management side is about two big things:
first, communication - talking, listening, negotiating, facilitating,
motivating, solving problems, etc. Second, getting/helping others (the
client/team/stakeholders) to get things done - but not necessarily doing it
yourself (hands on PMs often try to put on the Hero cape in a crisis, which
usually addresses a symptom, not a cause). It's hard to put all that into a
single paragraph, but I've found bullets along the way that ring a PM's
bell, so to speak. The list below is a hybrid of listings I've seen and
expectations that I've experienced firsthand. Note that they focus on PM
skills (leadership, estimating, general management); hands-on experience
with or exposure to actual production work (copywriting, coding, GUI design,
IA, etc.) was listed as 'preferred' but not mandatory.

Some might look at the list and say that it's not specific enough for Web
but I think that's why it appealed to me - it treats PM as an actual
discipline and not an 'accidental profession.'

Hope this is a good start...any other opinions?


Strong business and technical skills (do you understand our business and the
common tools/apps)
Strong interpersonal skills, high degree of initiative and a good team
player
Ability to develop lasting business relationships with client mid-management
Excellent communications skills
Proven experience with various software development methodologies (RUP, RAD,
XP, custom, etc. - prove you can work in a structured environment)
Providing initial estimates of the size, effort, schedule and cost for a
profitable project
Developing and implementing a project communication plan
Developing and implementing a knowledge transfer plan
Managing team deliverables and assigned tasks
Providing leadership for larger and complex written communications
Leading and delivering client presentations
Leveraging team skills and experience
Supporting team members through mentoring
Working on teams of at least X to Y members (depends on your shop)
Leading N projects per year (again, depends on your shop, but I think 3-4 is
on target for web).


Greg Glaser, PMP
Sr. Project Manager
AGENCY.COM
greg@xxxxxxxxxx
469.467.1160
icq: 2249648


----- Original Message -----
From: "Beth Mazur" <bowseat@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <webproducers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 8:01 PM
Subject: [webproducers] In search of web producer job description


>
> In our web group (of about 20 folks), we've divvied things up so that
> there are content folks, design folks, and coding/scripting folks. What
> we're missing, of course, are the project mgmt folks.
>
> We'd like to "locate" this responsibility with the content folks. So
> we're thinking of having two different positions; one, which has
> traditional content responsibility (writing/editing/organization, etc.).
> The other has more project mgmt responsibility.
>
> I'm trying to find a reasonably detailed job description for this latter
> function (which seems to fit the web producer model) which isn't
> a 'one-stop-shop' (i.e., does design, web master tasks, and/or
> whatever) and is more about the actual mgmt/coordination of
> web projects in a larger shop.
>
> I was trying to find something useful in monster.com, but the
> job descriptions I found were either overly general or way too
> brief (the 'describe this job in 50 words' problem).
>
> If anyone has any pointers to some useful job descriptions, I'd
> greatly appreciate it!!
>
> Beth Mazur
> mazur@xxxxxxxxx
>
>
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