Team Training Only

Introduction to Digital Project Management

This course breaks down each stage of digital project management, from project planning and scoping through to delivery to your end-user.
FORMAT

In-person, online or hybrid

WHAT'S INCLUDED

  • Completion certificate
  • CIEP membership upgrade

PRICE

Please contact us to request a quote

Why should I take this course?

The course’s sessions combine knowledge acquisition with how to apply this knowledge to achieve results. There will be opportunities for group discussion, with examples of best practice underpinning what you learn. The course will use real-life case studies of recent projects throughout, and will provide you with sample documentation and templates for future reference and use.
Are you an editor or publisher who has been tasked with mining your backlist, and turning existing or new titles into a digital platform or product? Or perhaps you are launching a new digital offering, and aren’t sure where to start? Do you need to understand and learn more about how producing an online interface differs from making a print or e-book? If so, Introduction to Digital Project Management is for you. It looks at all aspects of digital project management and will give you the understanding to take on and run projects of your own.

Digital project management is challenging. This course breaks down each stage of a digital project, from planning and scoping through to delivery to your end-user. It considers how you can adapt your existing skills to work successfully as part of a team delivering digital projects. It will also equip you with the terminology and confidence needed to put these skills into practice. You’ll learn how to become an efficient and effective team player, and gain advice on how to manage suppliers and staff, budgets and schedules.
Benefits

Control how you learn and progress

Who is it for?

The course is for publishing staff who are new to project management or publishing, or those who are taking on digital projects. It is useful for staff who want an overview of digital project management, but are not themselves DPMs. This includes but is not limited to:
  • assistant editors
  • commissioning editors
  • digital project assistants, executives and managers
  • editors
  • managing editors
  • project-management assistants, executives and managers
  • publishing executives and managers.

Learning outcomes

On completing this course you’ll be able to:
  • understand the terminology of digital project management
  • adapt your existing publishing skills
  • set up, run and deliver a digital project
  • communicate well with internal and external stakeholders
  • work effectively as part of a team
  • manage budgets, suppliers, schedules and staff.

Programme


Each half-day will comprise two sessions, looking in turn at key aspects of digital project management in a step-by-step approach. There will be plenty of opportunities for discussion. 

Day 1: What makes an effective digital project manager?

Session 1
An introduction to concepts and terminology

Session 2
 The stages in a digital project, from set-up to delivery and beyond

Day 2: Working successfully as part of a team

Session 3
Getting stuck in: managing a project day-to-day

Session 4 
Managing teams
Details

What you need to know

Delivery

The course is delivered as a one-day workshop either in person, online or as a combination of both. Content is customised to meet your training objectives, based on your own materials. Staff will learn through working a range of specially prepared exercises, small-group and plenary discussion, and question-and-answer sessions, guided and supported by the tutor. They will receive a course outline and timetable at the start of the course, with discussion exercises listed. After the course they will be sent the slides, updated to include key points from group discussions.

Any information to be completed beforehand will be sent via email.

Zoom

Please contact us with any accessibility or special requirements, for example having in-session captions or the learning materials sent to you in advance.

Chartered Institute of Editing & Proofreading (CIEP) membership upgrade

Completing this course counts towards the continuing professional development (CPD) requirement of a CIEP membership upgrade. For more information about upgrade criteria, visit the CIEP Membership Upgrade Hub.

Certificate

Upon completing the course you will receive a certificate from the Institute of Publishing.

About the trainer

Alysoun Owen

Trainer
ABOUT ALYSOUN OWEN
Alysoun Owen is an experienced publisher and project manager of print and digital products. Through her consultancy company, she works with publishers at the forefront of digital innovation, including Bloomsbury Publishing, Class Publishing, Oxford University Press and Springer Nature. As Editor of the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook, she speaks at conferences, literary events and on university courses.