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This article is the first of a series that we published in a regional magazine a few years back. The concepts that we discussed then and the message of these articles are still applicable today, hence the republication here! In a place like Dubai, Jeddah, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Manama, and many other places in West...

In this post, we decided to share an interview that Bayt.com (“The Middle East’s #1 Job Site) conducted with our CEO, Mr. Mounir Ajam, as part of their Employer and Careers Insights. The interview is from November 2009. We include here without editing!

Are, Project and Program Management skills, core skills for knowledge workers and their managers in the knowledge organization? The Background A couple of months ago, while Mounir and I were presenting a SUKAD Program Management course, we showed a slide of a front cover of Business Week magazine, featuring a photograph of Peter F. Drucker,...

This article is by a Guest Author, Mr. Theofanis Giotis, a friend, partner, and project management leader! During all Project Management related conversations, workshops and trainings, a single question is always asked: “How do we organize the team members? What roles do we assign to them?”

All of our blogs has been text blogs so far and we will experiment with video blogs in the future. In the mean time we want to share these two short videos with you all. You can access the videos through our Project Management Knowledge Portal via http://knowledge.sukad.com/videos-and-audios or directly from the host site per...

This is a follow-up article to the last one on project success. Background We did write in the past a few articles on the PMBOK Guide – what is good about it, what is missing, its inconsistencies, its gaps, and practitioners misunderstandings. A few weeks ago, PMI officially released the fifth edition of the PMBOK...