A Dissected Path to Digital Transformation: The Indispensable Three-Pronged Approach

#Digitaltransformation, although a global term, remains an overwhelming journey for many. With the relentless evolution of the technological landscape, and competitors surging ahead, organizations must embrace transformation to stay viable. Many must realize that digital transformation combines #people, #processes, and #technology. Here is a critical analysis of the three linchpins: Human Capital Enlightenment: The anchor […]

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THE HUMAN FACTOR: PRIORITIZING PEOPLE IN THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY

INTRODUCTION In my years of navigating the business technology landscape, I have seen the term ‘digital transformation’ become almost synonymous with cutting-edge technology and streamlined processes. Nevertheless, in this whirlwind of technological advancement, I have noticed a critical element often overlooked: the human factor. Drawing from my own experiences and observations, I believe that the […]

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Memorize 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 […]

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PMBOK ® Guide Fifth Edition Review

PMI just released the draft version of PMBOK® Guide 5th edition for review; and I had the chance to go through it. There are some changes in the new Guide, the biggest change is that they introduced 7 new processes, one new knowledge area “Project Stakeholder Management“, and removed 2 processes “Manage Stakeholder Expectations, Report […]

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2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 14,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 5 sold-out performances for that many […]

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Agile Continuous Improvement

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

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PMI-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 […]

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2012 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 […]

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Scrum 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 […]

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How 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 […]

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Does 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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