Interactive projects require everyone involved to embrace a certain amount of chaos;
 how can project managers keep teams and clients connected and collaborating effectively amidst the insanity? We'll talk about the factors that make interactive work uniquely challenging, and the survival skills that bring a project manager from good to excellent.

1. Embracing Chaos:
An Interactive Project Management
Survival Guide

2. Nancy Lyons
@nylons
Meghan Wilker
@irishgirl

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5. Digital
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The Process Wars

9. What is
Project Management?

10. “Most engineers don’t know what a project
manager does, and if they do, they usually don’t
know what a good one looks like.”
“Crap project managers have ruined the
reputation of the gig.”
Source:: http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2013/07/15/entropy_crushers.html

11. Project management
is like air quality.
If you can see it,
it’s probably killing you.
@nylons | @irishgirl
Source: http://publichealthinchina.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/beijingairjpg.jpg

12. Project Management
is a leadership role.
“I'm trying hard to get this project
management thing down but there is a
hell of a lot of work in it. Thought its a
small thing and now it seems that the
project manager is holding down the
fort on everything.”
- a dude who read our book

13. PART
II
The
MY
N A T O ent
A
of an Excell
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P RO J E E R
M A N AG

14. Emotional
Intelligence
Empathy
Intuition
Instinct

15. Strategic Thinking
Live and breathe the work.
Connect what with why.
Know who, know when.
@nylons | @irishgirl

16. Guidance
Give meaning to tasks.
Communicate effectively.
Stay cool under pressure.
@nylons | @irishgirl

17. Motivation
Social engineering
Leadership
Likability

18. Bravery
Taking risks.
Building consensus.
Making mistakes.

19. PART
II
The
MY
N A T O ent
A
of an Excell
Bravery
Taking risks
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RO J E C R
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Motivation
Leadership
Strategic Thinking
Connect what with why
Emotional Intelligence
Empathy, intuition, instinct
Guidance
Give meaning to the process

20. You

21. “A number of empirical studies of on-the-job excellence
have clearly and repeatedly established that emotional
competencies —communication, interpersonal skills, selfcontrol, and so on — ‘play a far larger role in superior
job performance than do cognitive abilities and
technical expertise’.”
Source: Unwritten Laws of Engineering: Revised and Updated Edition, by W.J. King, James G. Skakoon.
Interior quote: Working with Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman

22. Thank you!
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