by Mounir Ajam | Aug 6, 2016 | Applied Project Management (4PM), Project Management Certification, Projects Performance
What do you think, is project management becoming a commodity? I am a member on numerous online groups related to project management. There is a huge focus on certifications, PMP being the most popular but others as well like ACP, Agile, PRINCE2, RMP and numerous...
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...
by Mounir Ajam | Mar 22, 2015 | Methodology-CAM2P, Organizational Project Management, Project Management Maturity - The 7Es, Projects Performance
How do organizations measure project and project management performance? Is it based on a customer satisfaction survey or is there more to it? Is it enough to measure the performance of a given project or should we also measure the organizational performance in...
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 | 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 | 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 –...
