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This is our fourth article on entrepreneurship and a continuation of our last post! In the last post, we stressed our view where we think that project management is the necessary link that is missing from the entrepreneurship world. We suggested a model, which is derived from the SUKAD Customizable and Adaptable Methodology for Managing...

There are too many challenges facing an entrepreneur today – some of it is legal structure and regulations. Other challenges related to the fear of failure and the stigma associated with that. Even if we overcome the fear of failure we will encounter the challenge of availability of capital

This is our second article on entrepreneurship! We wrote this article about a year ago while attending the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES 2) in Istanbul, Turkey. This week, the same summit (GES 3) is taking place in Dubai so it is appropriate to bring back this article the next two posts that are also related...

Do you need to memorize the ITTO’s to achieve the PMP?

We are re-posting this blog, which we had posted a while back on the old blog site. Introduction A while back I had a young lady wanting to meet me in our offices in Dubai to discuss with me the possibility of SUKAD using her techniques on how to get PMP Exam Prep class participants...

Introduction As an entrepreneur, I have made many mistakes and I will write about them in due time. Out of the numerous mistakes I made, three in particular almost devastated the company I co-founded. Today we will talk about one of those mistakes. The objective of this story is not Mounir but the decisions and...

This article is a follow up to our series on the PMBOK Guide and is for a colleague that we have met many years ago at a PMI Congress. Mr. Crispin (“Kik”) Piney. His bio is at the end of this post. We are honored to have Mr. Piney as a guest author on our...

Introduction This is the last article on our current series on the PMBOK® Guide. In this series, we published three articles on 14, 16, and 19 November 2012. In this article, we write about topics that are included in the PMBOK® Guide, yet many practitioners and project management professionals (PMP) do not fully understand; or...