October 12, 2024 — Komplexe Projekte zum Erfolg zu führen ist eine Herausforderung, das kann wohl jeder Projektmanagerin bestätigen. In dieser Session gibt Ann-Cathrin Einblick in ihre Erfahrungen mit Enterprise-Projekten, dem magischen Dreieck (Time. Money. Budget: Du kannst nicht alles haben), agilen Methoden und der Kunden-Kommunikation.

Die Teilnehmenden können aus der Session Impulse für ihr eigenes Toolkit mitnehmen, die nicht nur für das erste Projekt anwendbar sind. Angefangen bei der Frage, wie der Kunde seine Anforderungen denn jetzt meint, bis zur richtigen Handhabung des Go Live schauen wir uns gemeinsam die verschiedenen Stationen eines typischen Kundenprojekts mit WordPress an.

December 30, 2023 — You can’t know everything going into a digital development project. Almost everything we do, and every problem we face, is a direct result of these gaps in our knowledge and the risks they create.

This talk suggests an approach to account for this gap. Learn how to use tools and techniques to deliver better results.

November 3, 2021 — This talk reviews some of the most common WordPress mistakes. It explores how we can learn from our mistakes and make our projects better.

June 26, 2020 — Has a client ever wasted your time in a consulting session? Have you ever had a one-hour consultation turn into three? Have you experienced the sinking feeling that happens when you leave the consultation and realize you failed to ask a key question? This talk provides answers to these issues and more.

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June 26, 2020 — Clients can be the best and worst part of running a WordPress business. This talk suggests strategies and practices to help prevent the most common problems freelancers face with clients.

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June 19, 2020 — This talk recommends five essential questions to ask on a sales call. Make better use of your time and improve your chances of success.

April 22, 2020 — As somebody who has been both a developer and marketing team leader in my career, I’ve been able to see when projects go wrong between developers and outside or internal marketing team. In this talk, I’ll share a few areas on where relationships break down, how to avoid problems before they arise, and also tips to get marketing teams on your side so you can both serve a happy client.

March 26, 2020 — Spend time talking with a group of web business owners and the conversation will inevitably include someone’s unfortunate experience with a terrible client. Most web pros have a story or two (or eight). While bad clients can’t be completely avoided, there are strategic steps any business owner can take to contain the impact of a bad client.

In this session, Nathan will explain the how to create a system that preserves workflow and keeps problem clients in check.

Take aways: (1) four fences that will keep problem clients in check, (2) the friendly monsters you should know and how to contain them, and (3) the payoff of protecting your business by building good fences.

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October 6, 2019

November 20, 2018 — Waiting on content is one of the biggest bottlenecks in digital agencies. In this talk I cover

Why clients take to long to send content
3 ways to help your clients provide content faster
Some great tools to help the process along
How to request content in a way that makes it easy for clients