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Understanding your internal capabilities
From the course: Project Management for Creative Projects
Understanding your internal capabilities
- Before you can manage something, you have to understand it. And this comes down to first, understanding the capabilities of your team. This is really going to come down to a couple of different areas. The most obvious one, are internal services, what you can do as a company or an individual, without having to involve outside contractors. This means you have the people, the equipment, and the know how to deliver the goods for this particular service. Now this is key as your business grows. And the more you can bring internal, the more you reduce risk and control cost. But all creative projects have always been dependent on external services, the subject matter experts. That lighting person you hire, the food stylist, the graphic designer for a particular look. It's very common in our industries to work with freelance talent. And so you need to learn how to manage these folks as well as properly spec out the work…
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