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As we deliver project management workshops, work with clients, or people in general, we find that in the majority of cases, people use the term quality to refer to grade. Well, although these terms are related, quality is different from grade. An explanation is in this video.

Kids were having steak for lunch so they were steakeholders 🙂 Well, our topic today is not about steakholders but stakeholders and shareholders. No cup holders for today. Honestly, this topic is easy and straight forward. We do not often see too much confusion between the two terms in our workshops. People understand the term shareholder...

Why are project owners afraid of project management?

I am writing this article with the feeling that I am either courageous or stupid since what I will write about might be touching many or stepping on people soft toes. I must start by saying, I am writing this article based on observations from working in this region (West Asia, GCC) for close to...

As you read this article you replace over budget with behind schedule and overrun with delayed to shift the discussion from cost to schedule and reach the same conclusion. In recent days I have posted on Social Media about delayed mega projects and even did a video on the subject but in Arabic.

Busting the myth of Agile for most projects, most of the time – 2

This is the third article on Agile. The first one covered a discussion on LinkedIn and summarized the key points discussed. With the second article, we started to demystify the concept that Agile is for most projects most of the time. In this second Article, we highlighted the overview mission of the Agile Manifesto. Today,...

This is an update from an earlier post. In this update, I will focus only on the comments and other related information. On 21 March, I started the following discussion on LinkedIn We keep hearing about the PMBOK Guide sixth edition and that Agile is in every knowledge area. That brings two questions: Is Agile for...