by Mounir Ajam | Sep 22, 2016 | Careers, Entrepreneurship, Knowledge Management, Youth Leadership
Years ago, we had a concept to create cSMILE which we later changed it to iSMILE™. Since we cannot have a physical center or institute today, why cannot we have a virtual educational series? I will not write much today, I will let these two short videos explain. The...
by Mounir Ajam | Sep 6, 2016 | Careers, Knowledge Management, Project Management Certification
A while back, we tried to answer the question Is the PMBOK Guide Real World? The point was that many practitioners believe that the guide does not reflect the real world. We cannot agree and BELIEVE that the PMBOK Guide does reflect the real world. In order not to...
by Mounir Ajam | May 7, 2016 | Knowledge Management, Learning
I am a true believer in open communications and definitely not an advocate of censorship or imposing strict rules. People are free to post whatever they want, if I do not like it, I will delete, and if I find it offensive I will block the person or stop following him...
by Mounir Ajam | May 3, 2016 | Applied Project Management (4PM), Competence, Knowledge Management
In a recent article, we discussed if the project manager the jack-of-all-trades and the master of NONE. That discussion was due to the numerous online discussions and even publications by “leading” project management associations that cannot make up their...
by Mounir Ajam | Mar 8, 2015 | Knowledge Management, Projects Performance
This is the first of a series of short articles on “Three principles of … ” In this article we will just tease you and introduce the various sets of three principles … The first set Three Principles of Project (Project Management) Planning The...
by Mounir Ajam | Oct 24, 2014 | Human Aspects of Project Management, Knowledge Management, Organizational Project Management, Project Management Training
It is common to hear the following comments in feedback to classes and workshops: “it would have been great to link the materials to our own internal way of doing things”. Another comments, “it would also be great if the examples and case studies are...