In this post, I am taking a small section from Chapter 1 of my upcoming book, Leading Megaprojects, A Tailored Approach to deal with what I call blockers of project management knowledge. The type of people who think that everything we need to know has been invented and no room for new knowledge or another...
Project Background In SUKAD, we have been working on a substantial document with the title Project Management English-Arabic Glossary of Terms. Since 2010, we have published this reference to the community; versions 1 to 3. It has been shared free under the Creative Commons Guidelines. Recently, we have been involved in two projects to verify...
Project Management Seminars Would you be interested in attending an evening (or daytime) project management seminar? This article is to seek your input on selecting topics for a project management seminar series. We also want to address organizations if they would be interested in partnering with us by hosting one or more of these seminars...
In numerous discussions online, even in guides like the PMBOK Guide, there is so much focus on the project rather than the organization and on the project manager rather than organizational project management. What I mean is
ISO 21500 mentions the need to have three types of processes to deliver projects, project management processes, product processes and support processes. However, ISO focuses on the PM Processes.
SUKAD has been working to help promote professional project management since our founding in 2004. In addition to local events, we have been publishing this blog site and another in Arabic since 2011. We have a knowledge portal with some open information and other info that is restricted to SUKAD clients. In this short message,...
Years ago, we had a concept to create cSMILE which we later changed it to iSMILE™. Since we cannot have a physical center or institute today, why cannot we have a virtual educational series? I will not write much today, I will let these two short videos explain. The first video The second video What do...
A while back, we tried to answer the question Is the PMBOK Guide Real World? The point was that many practitioners believe that the guide does not reflect the real world. We cannot agree and BELIEVE that the PMBOK Guide does reflect the real world. In order not to repeat – refer to the blog...
I am a true believer in open communications and definitely not an advocate of censorship or imposing strict rules. People are free to post whatever they want, if I do not like it, I will delete, and if I find it offensive I will block the person or stop following him or her. However, we...
In a recent article, we discussed if the project manager the jack-of-all-trades and the master of NONE. That discussion was due to the numerous online discussions and even publications by “leading” project management associations that cannot make up their mind on what the role of the project manager is.
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