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You have the credential. You have the experience. You know how to run a project. And yet something is not working the way it should.
The standup cadence that kept your engineering team aligned is mak...
You are already doing most of the job. You are tracking the timeline everyone else ignores. You are the one who noticed the scope quietly doubled three weeks ago. You are the person the creative direc...
In most creative orgs that staff both a creative project manager and a producer, the working relationship between the two roles is either undefined, lightly defined, or defined in ways that do not mat...
Design studio work has its own structural reality and the credentials that prepare you for it are narrower than the broader certification market suggests. If you are a senior designer running projects...
If you are weighing the Google Project Management Professional Certificate against a creative project management credential like CPMA Level I, you are looking at two of the most accessible PM cred
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If you are deciding between CPMA Level I and the AIGA Project Management Certificate for Creatives, you are looking at two of the most prominent creative-focused project management credentials availab...
If you are a producer, line producer, production manager, or production coordinator and you are thinking about moving into creative project management, the transition is shorter than it looks from the...
If you have searched "creative project management process," you have probably already seen the version of this post that lists five phases of generic project management, slaps the word "creative" in f...
Production work has its own structural reality and the credentials that prepare you for it are narrower than the broader certification market suggests. If you are a producer, line producer, production...
In-house creative work is not agency work in a different building. The structural differences are large enough that creative project management training built around the agency model often misses what...
If you have searched "creative project manager skills," you have probably already seen the version of this post that lists ten generic skills, every one of them ending in "-ation" or "-ship," every on...
Most articles on the creative project manager career path read like LinkedIn job ladders copy-pasted into prose. They list titles. They tell you that with more experience you get more responsibility a...
If you have searched "creative project management certification," you are trying to answer a question that the search results do not answer well. The first page is a mix of generic project management ...
If you are an account manager at an agency or in-house creative team and you are thinking about moving into creative project management, you are part of a much larger group than you might realize.
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If you are a designer thinking about moving into creative project management, the transition is more accessible than it looks from the outside. The skills do not transfer one-to-one, but the foundatio...
If you have an interview scheduled for a creative project manager role at an agency, studio, in-house creative team, or production company, you are going to be asked a specific kind of question. The q...
Every film that actually gets finished is held together by people whose job titles do not include the words "project manager." They are called producers, line producers, production managers, productio...
A design studio runs on a paradox. The work is intimate, iterative, and deeply personal to the people making it, but the studio itself is a business, and the business needs work to ship, clients to be...
Advertising agency project management is a specific craft, and the certifications that most accurately prepare people for it are not the ones with the biggest brand recognition. The Creative Project M...
If you are trying to decide between the PMP and a creative project management certification, the honest answer is that these are not the same kind of credential and they are not designed for the same ...
If you have heard about the CPMA certification and you are trying to figure out whether it is worth your time and money, this review gives you a direct answer. What the Creative Project Management
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If you are working in advertising, design, film, content production, or any creative environment and you find yourself drawn toward the coordination side of the work -- the briefs, the timelines,
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If you manage creative projects and you are looking for training that actually reflects the work you do, the options are more limited than they should be. Most project management courses were built fo...
If you have found your way to this page, you are probably close to a decision. You know what the CPMA certification is, you have looked at the price, and now you want an honest answer to a simple ques...