by Mounir Ajam | Mar 16, 2016 | Methodology-CAM2P, Project Life Cycle, Project Management Process Groups
Introduction Over the years, the PMBOK Guide has the ANSI stamp on the cover, giving the impression that the whole guide is an ANSI Standard. However, inside the guide, one can find a mention that the ANSI Standard was part of Chapter 3 in the 3rd and 4th edition of...
by Mounir Ajam | Mar 11, 2016 | Applied Project Management (4PM), Project Management Process Groups
I struggled with writing or starting this blog since I honestly did not know what to say. Is “I told you so” appropriate? Is it good that some of the PMI volunteers are finally waking up, appropriate? Maybe the question should be: Is PMI listening to us...
by Mounir Ajam | Mar 9, 2016 | Applied Project Management (4PM)
This blog post is a presentation that the author delivered to the Lebanese American University (LAU) Engineering Student on 26 February. The post is from slide share and is only slides. Later on, we will work to add voice recording to it. To access the presentation,...
by Mounir Ajam | Feb 27, 2016 | Methodology-CAM2P, Project Life Cycle, Project Management Methodology
Let us expand on the question: how to build a universal methodological approach, for managing projects that is flexible enough to adjust for project type, domain, classification, or a learning platform (international standard)? First, let us include some definitions....
by Mounir Ajam | Feb 23, 2016 | Project Management Certification
The questions in the image is for people working in project management, their managers, and executives. We tried to put the question as simply as possible to draw an analogy to project management certifications. When any of us go to a restaurant, we are either given...
by Mounir Ajam | Feb 18, 2016 | Competence, Human Aspects of Project Management, Projects Performance
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...
