Category: Project & Agile Management

Introduction: Project managers, especially PMP® certified, should acquire and master leadership skills because they have the ultimate responsibility to guide the project team to success.  A crucial leadership skill for project managers is Emotional intelligence (EQ or EI) techniques which developed in the 1990s last century to be recognized as a leadership skill. As Golman…

By: Hammam Elmahi Introduction The PMBOK® Guide, 7th Edition (PMP Reference) identifies 12 practices/principles that project practitioners need to master, in order to become more productive and deliver successful projects, it represents a part of the PMI framework for project management. One of these principles is to ‘’create a collaborative project team environment’’. This environment can help the project’s…

Introduction: The meeting is a vital technique in effective communication and can be utilised in management endeavours for any field. It may be defined as a gathering of individuals to conduct a discussion for a purpose. In organisations, meeting is a common practice to share ideas, discuss issues and make decisions. We have all once…

ʙʏ Hᴀᴍᴍᴀᴍ Eʟᴍᴀʜɪ Introduction: One of the insightful and intriguing concepts, which helps develop successful products or projects is Obeya. It crystallized from other notions like lean management and was crafted by Mr. Takeshi Uchiyamada (内山田 竹志) from Toyota, where he led a project to develop the novel Toyota Prius which is among the early…

By: Eng. Hammam Elmahi Introduction In the business field and project management, communication is vital to keep teams, stakeholders and managers posted about important information at the workplace. To keep the communication process, moving smoothly in a company functional, and project managers should develop their interpersonal skills (power skills) and emotional intelligence as well as…

Introduction Contracts and procurements are vital for project management, because the project team may not be able to develop or complete every activity or produce all the required services. in these circumstances, the management may decide to acquire these products, services or deliverables from outside the project, in other words, outsource it.To make such a…

By: Hammam Elmahi Introduction When the Project management body of knowledge PMBOK guide illustrates the project management development approaches PMD, it is categorised into 5 different methods which are: traditional, iterative, incremental, agile and hybrid.A deep understanding of the principles of these approaches in essential for the PMP exam, because some of the exam questions…

by E.HAMMAM ELMAHI When we plan the project, we focus on the main three constrains which create the baselines. We start by collecting the requirement, and the quality of data here is very critical for calcifying the scope of work, the main output here is the scope baseline. Based on the scope, we manage the…

Introduction: Scheduling and time management plays a vital role in projects management because time is a constraint which can affect the project scope and cost as they contain the overall goal of carrying out the project, business case and strategic objective.In the predictive Approach, the most important output of the schedule planning is the schedule…