http://kareemshaker.com Everyday is a New Day Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:51:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/microsoft-project-does-not-make-a-project-manager/ http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/microsoft-project-does-not-make-a-project-manager/#comments Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:36:00 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=610 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 [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/microsoft-project-does-not-make-a-project-manager/feed/ 8 http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/why-projects-fail-procurement/ http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/why-projects-fail-procurement/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:09:10 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=372 In part four of Why Projects Fail series, we will examine the procurement root cause and see how it can cause the project failure, procurement involves establishing a relationship with a vendor to build the project’s deliverables, if a wrong vendor is selected, the entire project will be threatened, the project manager has to have [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/why-projects-fail-procurement/feed/ 0 http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/10-ways-to-avoid-marketecture-trap/ http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/10-ways-to-avoid-marketecture-trap/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:26:54 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=196 If you work on IT projects and have not heard about Marketecture before this is a must read for you, Marketecture (Marketing Architecture) is a very common technique that most of vendors use to market and sell their products, in Marketecture, marketing people use the architectural advantages of a product to tout it and influence [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/10-ways-to-avoid-marketecture-trap/feed/ 1