Beyond Herding Cats: Lessons for Project Management in a Small Agency
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Advice for small agencies with teams of 2–7: adopt lightweight, evolving practices instead of full Scrum, run timeboxed meetings with a shared agenda, and require a postmortem after every project. Use Asana (or equivalent) as the single source of truth, integrate time tracking, and clean duplicate/overdue tasks regularly. Hold regular one-on-ones even for a single developer project, set notification and response norms, and document action items during meetings so decisions, owners, and due dates exist immediately.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:04Why small agency PM is different
- 5:40Adopt agile practices flexibly
- 9:16Run efficient small team meetings
- 16:42Master project management software
- 22:01Improve team communication
- 24:39Build positive team culture
- 27:50Closing and Q&A
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