Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches

Internal and External Design Groups

The differences between working with an internal design group and an agency design team are explained in this section.

The Internal Design Experience

As you progress through your project management career, chances are good that you will work in internal development groups as well as in the agency environment. In either case the design production process is relatively the same. The biggest differences will be the actual design work and the clients. As you would assume, an internal design group may spend 80 percent of their time updating and working within an existing templated environment. The look and feel of the Web site has been established, and the designers spend the bulk of their time on new headers, images, ...