Last Night a PM Saved My Life (workshop)
summary
Project management at Blink UX sculpts schedules, budgets, recruiting and stakeholder plans so design work actually lands; a scoped diary study that looked like “three weeks” of collection becomes a 10‑week project once recruiting and reporting are added, which PMs catch by building detailed schedules. PMs run daily standups, take meeting minutes, build mitigation plans for recruiting shortfalls, and assemble client‑facing timelines (internal detail in SmartSheet timelines, polished in Figma). Collaboration uses Mural for exercises and Google handbooks; PMs bridge teams and reduce practitioner context switching.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 10:06Project manager vs product manager
- 13:44PM contributions to projects
- 20:49Process and tool setup
- 25:31Communication in project management
- 27:16Risk management strategies
- 30:10Strategic PM perspective
- 33:45Q&A and closing activity
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