Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches

What You Do

Summing up the project manager role in one tidy sentence that you can pull out at Thanksgiving to explain to Aunt Martha what you do for a living is not easy. The tasks you are charged with are widely varied and require skills ranging from the ability to write and speak well to understanding the principles of a relational database. When you tell Aunt Martha that you “manage Web development projects,” chances are she'll respond with a kindly, “That's nice, dear” and return her attention to her glass of wine. However, Uncle Dick may not let you off the hook so easily and will want to know just what this “Web development” stuff is all about. In that case, here is a short list of the tasks that comprise the Web project manager role and ...