Reduced risk is perhaps the key reason for agile project management going mainstream in IT and development. It’s taken many years and annual losses running into billions to force top-down, budget focussed organisations like governments to change, but for small web agencies it should be much easier. We don’t have centuries of culture overturn and…

Agile focuses on continuous delivery where the traditional model works to deadlines. The feast and famine problem known to most web designers is a product of the traditional approach. Two common tactics have emerged to overcome this problem. Value pricing – getting high ticket jobs to cover the designer for longer periods. Recurring incomes –…

Web designing was my escape from the tedium of being a manager in the civil service. I loved working with staff to achieve our shared goals, but the processes and documentation requested by my office became soul destroying. I felt it prevented me from getting on with my job. Mostly, I was creating an unread…

In the last video I argued that selling websites as commodities was outdated because: The “build it and they will come” approach is rarely considered an effective online marketing strategy. Most web designers are using platforms (like WordPress) that need to evolve. Here, I am looking at how traditional project management can also make work…

This is the first of 5 posts on how web designers could benefit from adopting an agile mindset. This one, on better work quality and opportunities, will be a little bit longer as I need to offer some historical context. Traditional Vs Agile approaches Most will be familiar with Traditional web projects. They start with…