One of PMI-ACP exam preparation chapters, these slides includes the following: Continuous Improvement Retrospectives Knowledge Sharing Process Tailoring Principles of Systems Thinking (Complex, Adaptive, Chaos) Process Analysis Continuous Improvement Processes Self Assessment Practice Exam Please share your comments. Agile Continuous improvement from Wafi Mohtaseb – PMP®, PMI-ACP
Read morePMI-ACP- Agile Framework
The first chapter of PMI-ACP exam preparation, these slides includes the following: Why Agile Methods? The Agile Manifesto The Declaration of Interdependence Agile Methods Scrum. Extreme Programming (XP). Feature-Driven Development (FDD). Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM). Crystal Clear Family. Lean Software Development Kanban Development. Practice Exam Please share your comments. PMI-ACP – Agile Framework from […]
Read more2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 8,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 13 years to get […]
Read moreSoftware Extension to the PMBOK® Guide Fifth Edition- Exposure Draft
The Software Extension to the PMBOK® Guide is now open for public review by PMI. The Exposure Draft of this standard will be open on 10 December 2012 and available until 10 January 2013. I have read most of it so far and it has some interesting content specially the Project/Product Life Cycle. Soon I will be posting some more details. […]
Read moreAgile Metrics – PM Network Magazine
PM Network Magazine December 2012 issue have published an article about Agile Metrics, the article includes part of my writing along with other Agile experts. Below is a copy from the Magazine, and I will be posting my full article on my blog soon. Please feel free to share your feedback. When it comes to […]
Read moreMemorize PMP Processes – The Easy Way
In this Article I will try to give some insight on how to memorize PMP processes, and how to relate them to the correspondent Process Group, and Knowledge Area. We will be using the famous Project Management Process Groups and Knowledge Areas Mapping table from PMBOK guide, which is shown below, to demonstrate how we […]
Read moreProject Scheduling Best Practices
I have been reading the Practice Standard for Scheduling – Second Edition by PMI, I found some useful information I wanted to share, below is a summary of the book: Mainly this book covers Scheduling Methods, Scheduling Techniques, How to create, maintain, and analyze a schedule. So What Is Scheduling and why we need a […]
Read moreScrum vs. Waterfall
WHAT IS WATERFALL? Waterfall is a classic software development life cycle, which is liner and sequential in nature, it has 5 main phases (Requirement Analysis, Design, Development, Test, Release), each of which has its distinct goals. In Waterfall you start the life cycle phases one at a time, each phase output is an input for […]
Read moreHow to get your employees MAD
15th of March was the fourth PM Corner Kuwait meeting, the subject of the meeting was about Team Motivation Methods ,and how to apply them in the project management field.The presentation was delivered by Mr. Taimoor Shah, who is a project management coach and trainer, I personnly enjoyed the session. Here are some of the Aims & Objects of […]
Read moreDoes Agile fit in Functional Organizations?
There was an argument between me and a friend of mine, and it was a very hot one. The argue was “Is it possible to apply Agile Methodologies in a Functional Organization?“. I was telling him that with some customization to Agile Processes & commitment from the Senior Management, we can apply Agile in such organizations; definitely it will […]
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April 7, 2013 
