by Mounir Ajam | May 24, 2017 | Organizational Project Management, Project Management Videos
This is a video blog but focusing on a concept outlined in the PMBOK Guide that categorizes PMOs as Supporting, Controlling, or Directing. General categorization could be useful, however, it can be misleading. For example, we have recently received a request for...
by Mounir Ajam | May 8, 2017 | Methodology-CAMMP, Project Management Methodology
Once again, what is the project life cycle? Why this question? Because it is our belief that the most common misunderstanding in project management today, especially among those who follow PMI and learned project management through the PMBOK Guide. Notice, we used the...
by Mounir Ajam | May 6, 2017 | Applied Project Management (4PM)
In this post, we are providing a historical perspective on the PMBOK Guide, especially with the sixth edition coming out soon. 1996 Edition The first official consolidated copy of the PMBOK® Guide was published in 1996. It was about 180 pages; it had 37 processes,...
by Mounir Ajam | May 3, 2017 | How to, Methodology-CAMMP, Organizational Project Management, Project Management Maturity, Project Management Maturity - The 7Es, Project Management Methodology, Projects Performance
Every once in a while we focus on a certain topic and write a few articles about. Recently, we had a few posts with videos on terminology differences, and before that, we cover agile for capital projects. The most recent posts have been about large-complex, or mega...
by Mounir Ajam | May 1, 2017 | Project Management Videos
In project management, we continue to hear about requirements. PMBOK Guide has a process called Collect Requirements. The SUKAD CAMMP Model has a stage labeled Requirements Stage. Well, this is good and necessary but is it enough? The challenge with requirements is...
by Mounir Ajam | Apr 30, 2017 | How to, Lessons Learned, Methodology-CAMMP, Organizational Project Management, Project Life Cycle, Project Management Case Studies, Project Management Maturity, Project Management Maturity - The 7Es, Project Management Methodology, Project Success, Projects Failure
This post is specific to Executives, especially those leading Project Owners’s Organizations. How to lead large and complex (mega) projects to success? How you can minimize the chance of delays and overruns and maximizing value to your shareholders? In a recent...
