Chapter 2. Web Team Roles

Key Topics

  • Web Development Team Roles

  • The Producer and Project Manager Relationship

  • Working with Web Developers

Being a Web project manager means that you are coaching a diverse team of cross-functional experts whose talents range from banner buying to data modeling. Success depends not only on the project manager's familiarity with each team member's deliverable but also on the ability of this diverse group to work together. Leading a disparate band of talented, well-paid, and sometimes cranky experts into the white heat of a large-scale, expensive, and difficult development project is no picnic. The team will look to the project manager for leadership, solace, inspiration, and days off.

The project manager needs to understand ...

Get Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.