{"id":727,"date":"2022-04-24T09:18:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T09:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ideomedia.digital\/?p=727"},"modified":"2022-06-01T06:33:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T06:33:14","slug":"why-project-management-is-a-paid-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ideomedia.digital\/why-project-management-is-a-paid-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Project Management Is a Paid Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In order to understand why any particular process is a paid service we need to first understand what it actually means. According to the Association for Project Management<\/a> organization, project management is the application of processes, methods, skills, knowledge, and experience to achieve specific project objectives<\/strong> according to the project acceptance criteria within agreed parameters. Project management has final deliverables<\/strong> that are constrained to a finite timescale and budget. Additionally, a key factor that distinguishes project management from just ‘management’ is that it has this final deliverable and a finite timespan<\/strong>, unlike management which is an ongoing process. Because of this a project professional needs a wide range of skills; often technical skills, and certainly people management skills and good business awareness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt its most fundamental, project management is about people getting things done.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

But what does this all mean exactly and how does this pertain to a paid service? First of all, the differences appear straight out of the bat. While the definition seems to be pretty clear, at the same time it leaves room for a lot ot be played with. This is why companies deal with Project management in many different ways and Project managers can have experience in various areas from one company or another. For example, some are getting more involved in the technical aspects, as it can be seen in fields such as QA (Quality Assurance). This is where a Project manager can get himself involved in checking and verifying the completion of certain tasks by his team and in order to do so, a varying degree of technical knowledge is necessary. In other industries the Project managers often do a lot more people management, task management or have to maintain a healthy communication with the clients as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In our specific case, as a digital agency, Project managing includes almost everything as we have to work under specific deliverables and a finite timespan, and we also need to check and verify the completed tasks of our colleagues as well as sometimes even doing some of the more mundane work ourselves, work that doesn\u2019t require a professional set of skills, but one that requires nevertheles precious time and a great deal of attention, something that our clients don\u2019t always have. As an example, tasks like posting articles on a blog, changing a few images in a website, various text changes, and anything that doesn\u2019t really involve professional knowledge of coding, design or server infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be even more transparent, let\u2019s split the processes our Project manager is involved in two categories, one which would be tasks that are not considered a paid service and the second one which includes all tasks that are viewed as paid services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nonpaid Project management services would be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n