Through the years I have seen many people who use Microsoft Project (aka project management software) and claim they are project managers, I have also seen PMP certified people who don’t know the basics of Microsoft Project, and sadly I have seen project managers who are managing projects and don’t know the theory nor the software!

Who needs to know what by when and in which format? Every time you work on developing a new communication management plan, ask yourself this questions, it is the key to develop a robust communication plan, misevaluating a stakeholder is sometimes as bad as missing the stakeholder altogether, I will share with you a mindmap that can help you develop a comprehensive communication management plan

You cannot manage people from an ivory tower, you have to interact with your team, speak with them on daily basis and melt the ice that may stand as a big demotivator in many organizations, Management By Walking/Wandering Around (MBWA) is a simple yet effective technique to have a robust relationship with your team built on mutual trust, understanding, and agreement.

Yesterday I had a very interesting brief discussion with PMOT (project managers on Twitter), we were discussing how a lot of people are shifting their careers to project management and how some people who are not qualified to be project managers are really distorting the image of good ones, some PMOT said that most of today’s PMs are average ones and others found no issue at all, for me I have different view point, in this post I will reply to the discussion that we had on Twitter.

Are you quite happy with the email software you use? maybe you are, but I am not! Having used different applications for email I found most of them lack the intelligence to help me communicate efficiently and effectively, I am currently using Microsoft Office Outlook, and though it satisfies most of my needs, I think it needs major improvements so as are other Email applications,  In this post I will propose some thoughts about the future of email software as I dream of it and will elaborate on the way email software should consider the emotional aspect of communication which cannot be igonred.

We spend most of our time attending meetings, and a meeting is the most time waster if it is not managed properly, sometimes you find yourself walking into a meeting without even realizing why you are required for such a meeting. Meetings cost the enterprise a lot of money and most of times benefits are not realized nor quantified, meeting managed is one of the areas that seriously need some discipline and control, in this post I will give some tips to avoid meetings chaos and also will propose a concept called Meeting Calculator that I wish Calendars program will adopt it in the future.