by Mounir Ajam | Jun 28, 2017 | Project Management Maturity, Project Success, Projects Failure
Many, if not most people in project management know Murphy or Murphy’s Law. According to the Murphy’s Law Website, “If anything can go wrong, it will”. For more information about the origin of this law,...
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 | 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...
by Mounir Ajam | Apr 17, 2017 | Organizational Project Management, Project Management in Government Sector, Project Management Maturity, Project Success, Projects Failure
I am writing this article with the feeling that I am either courageous or stupid since what I will write about might be touching many or stepping on people soft toes. I must start by saying, I am writing this article based on observations from working in this region...
by Mounir Ajam | Apr 15, 2017 | Methodology-CAMMP, Project Management Maturity, Project Success, Projects Failure
As you read this article you replace over budget with behind schedule and overrun with delayed to shift the discussion from cost to schedule and reach the same conclusion. In recent days I have posted on Social Media about delayed mega projects and even did a video on...
by Mounir Ajam | Mar 1, 2017 | Management, Organizational Project Management, Project Management Maturity, Strategy
Ah – abbreviations – abbreviations. PMO, PMD, PMF, PM, OPM, what do all of these things mean and should we care? Well, let us start with the last part of the opening sentence, should we care? Should we care? If you work in an organization as a manager or...