Episode 42
Hustle: Empathetic Project Management (feat. Rachel Gertz)
Building teams, assessing how projects are run.
The Funsize Show · Funsize
May 13, 201650m 6s
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Show Notes
Rachel Gertz, Partner, Systems Consultant & Trainer at Louder than ten discusses some philosophies around project management. And roles and disciplines as teams grow and projects evolve over time.
Discussion points
- Emotional intelligence: empathy is taught.
- Be a champion for your team, they are dealing with a lot
- Should designers PM? Designers need to have empathy too
- When building teams hire less for fit, and more for the ability to make decisions based on business goals.
- PM's role needs to be unique because they need to be held accountable for project success/failure. Strategy focus
- Creative has the load of creativity, is it fair to have the role of asking the hard questions like scope, goals, body language.
Links
- Soap conference (Travis speaks about Design Machines)
- Collaboration workshop - http://soapconf.com/edu-summit/ (workshop with Travis and Rachel)
- Design & content conference, Vancouver
- Fall workshop in Calgary, Canada TBA
- Article by Mike Davidson, former Design Director at Twitter
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