by Mounir Ajam | Aug 18, 2014 | Applied Project Management (4PM)
We have not been able to write frequently and we hope our readers can forgive us for that. It has been an extremely busy period for us delivering workshops from Singapore to Baghdad in addition to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and other locations. In addition to delivering other...
by Mounir Ajam | Aug 8, 2014 | Applied Project Management (4PM)
For our 10th anniversary as SUKAD we have decided to run a competition where we give away enrollment to our classes and sets of books. Every week we ask one question – and there will be 4 winners; 2 win courses’ enrollment and 2 win set of books. The first...
by Mounir Ajam | Jun 21, 2014 | Organizational Project Management, Projects Performance
I raise this question “Is the Project Management Institute (PMI) changing direction?” to generate some discussions on whether PMI is indeed changing its direction of it is being a follower or a leader for project management? Initially, we posted this...
by Mounir Ajam | Jun 15, 2014 | Project Management Certification
I have recently been looking at some data on PMI membership and certifications in the region (West Asia). These statistics are quite interesting and raise so many questions. I will just show some numbers and without comments. The data below is recent – a couple of...
by Mounir Ajam | Jun 3, 2014 | Methodology-CAM2P, Organizational Project Management, Project Management Maturity - The 7Es, Project Management Methodology
The Project Management Institute (PMI) has just published Implementing Organizational Project Management: Practice Standard. In this – just published standard – it emphasize the importance of tailoring a project management methodology. However, the main...
by Mounir Ajam | May 28, 2014 | Management, Organizational Project Management, Project Success
In this post we address two important concepts about project management, which are: How to manage projects in organizations, and How to manage projects successfully. We split these topics since the first deals with the organizational system – policies –...