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With this post, we will start re-publishing some old articles and update them. Of course, we will continue to publish new articles. Project management is a serious business, but it does not hurt to have some fun with this interesting domain. In this post, we decided to play on words and learn the language of...

I hope this post will not be misunderstood and taken for what it is – sharing a personal career path that started in 1984 in engineering and shifted to project management in 1990 and continuing to today. This is a sample career path and we hope it will inspire others to lead. النسخة العربية English Version

Is the Project Manager the jack-of-all-trades?

Did some of the project management associations and organizations screw up the role of the project manager? Are they (or some of them) making the role of the project manager as the jack-of-all-trades and the master of none? Or, are some of these organizations confused about the role of the project manager and cannot make up...

What is the best way of teaching youth project management skills?

Earlier this week, I stumbled upon an online post on LinkedIn, where a project management training provider[1] conducted a CAPM® certification preparation class to high school students. This post brought a short debate with the instructor, who posted the original message. I had also started a discussion online, which has generated many responses. Also, this...

In the past, we had shared presentations on this blog but only rarely. Today, we will share a presentation with audio, which is an explanation of who are the project stakeholders that we present in an animated way. If this works and we get good feedback, we will post more educational content. Therefore, it would be...

Are you an accidental project manager? The Working Woman!

If you read our last article and you are reading this article now good news and welcome back to a fun article. In the last article we talked about the accidental project manager. We explained that the term was not offensive at all; if it were offensive, my project manager would have fired me a long time...