by Mounir Ajam | Aug 1, 2013 | Human Aspects of Project Management, Learning
This is one of a series of inter-related articles on learning and training; if interested in this subject, please check other blog posts. Every self-respecting educational professional has heard of Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Domains. Most of us distinguish...
by Mounir Ajam | Jul 11, 2013 | Human Aspects of Project Management, Management
This is a short blog just for fun – of course this is a story and not an actual situation although the scenario is inspired from experience! Only, the names are changed to protect the guilty and not embarrassed the victim — oops did I swap these? Although...
by Mounir Ajam | Jun 12, 2013 | Human Aspects of Project Management, Organizational Project Management
Introduction This week we published an article on building the project management organizational system. In that article we suggested our approach, using the SUKAD Seven Elements of Project Management Maturity. One of those elements is: “Professional...
by Mounir Ajam | May 28, 2013 | Human Aspects of Project Management, Project Management Case Studies
This article is the third of a series of articles specific to case studies from the author own projects’ experience. We have recently presented these case studies as a workshop; part of a Project Management Conference (PM360) in Singapore that was organized by...
by Mounir Ajam | Apr 7, 2013 | Human Aspects of Project Management, Management
The Situational Leadership theory, developed by Hersey and Blanchard from the 1970’s onwards, stated that leadership needed both task behavior as well as relationship behavior in order to get the best performance from people. It also understood that people that are...
by Mounir Ajam | Nov 30, 2012 | Human Aspects of Project Management, Lessons Learned
This article is a personal story – it is an experience I had while working on a project where I learned a key lesson that I have been carrying with me since and use on a regular basis. More than once, this lessons helped me get out of difficult situations and...