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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 ...
Most certification pages tell you what a program covers in broad strokes. This post goes deeper. If you are considering the Creative Project Management Academy and want to know exactly what you are ge...
If you have come across the Creative Project Management Academy (CPMA) and want to know exactly what it is, who built it, and whether it is worth your time and money, this guide covers everything. No ...
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
...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...
If you have found the CPMA Level I certification and you are trying to decide whether it is worth buying, the most honest help we can offer is to tell you who Level I is built for and who should not b...