Use the parts of it that you can, can understand, can work within the limitations of it and then if you don't like the parts and pieces of it, just kind of ignore them and we'll build out the parts that actually makes sense for us as administrators. Airtable was kind of essentially easing, easing them into “here's a project management system”, that they understand. And it's like, here's, here's this tool, and they don't know how to even I mean, I hate to say this log on, let alone use the, the, the tools that are kind of presented to them. We’ve tried-, there's a lot of project management tools where all of a sudden, it's shooting a knat with a cannon. You know, we we've tried Asana, we've tried a-, Trello. Which is I mean, we all kind of laugh, but when you're working with artists who are, and this is a really, I really don't want to offend anyone here, but slow to change and slow to adapt to new tools. And it's, what we like about Airtable is, it is kind of the, it's a more robust Excel. And what Airtable has afforded us the ability to do is to, to kind of track and I mean, back to what Stewart just said was accountability. So we have to manage a lot of pro-, ongoing programs that, that need, you know, we have, I would say, you know, five to six program managers who are simultaneously working on anywhere between five and 500 different programs that require management of guest artists and people and, and budgets. We are pretty dynamic and complex organization. I have been in that role since 2012 and I've been with Attack Theater since 2006. Rebecca: Hi, I'm Rebecca, uh, Executive Director of Attack Theater. And we find it’s really useful both for kind of managing our own workflows, and also for thinking strategically on kind of long-, longer term projects, and collecting all the resources to get those things done in one place, and keeping each other accountable on meeting the deadlines to make it happen. Right now, I'm using Asana and I use it kind of as a suite of productivity tools, but Asana is the main, you know, project management tool that we use. I'm really interested in tech tools, you know, different things to help my team work more efficiently. I've been Managing Director at Quantum Theater for about three years and before that I spent time in a number of other arts organizations, Ford's Theater Society in Washington, DC in New York, and I'm also a graduate of the Masters of Arts Management program (Carnegie Mellon University). We hope you enjoy this episode is brought to you by AMT Lab.Īlyssa: Okay, so before we begin, could you please take a moment to introduce yourselves to our listeners and tell us about which tool you have chosen for project management for your particular organization? Today we'll be getting into the nitty gritty of project management tools, particularly Airtable and Asana. I am the Executive Director and Publisher for the Arts Management and Technology Lab.Īlyssa: In this episode we are interviewing Rebecca Himberger, the Executive Director of Attack Theatre, and Stewart Urist, the Managing Director of Quantum Theater, both located here in Pittsburgh. My name is Alyssa and I am the Podcast Producer.īrett: Hi, my name is Brett. Alyssa: Hello, AMT Lab listeners and welcome to an interview episode with the Arts Management and Technology Lab.
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