http://kareemshaker.com Everyday is a New Day Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:05:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/why-do-projects-really-fail/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/why-do-projects-really-fail/#comments Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:42:33 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=686 Project failure has always been a hot topic. Yet the mystery behind what drives projects off track is starting to fade. Organizations have come a long way when it comes to ferreting out the root causes of failure. Here are some of the top reasons projects fall short – and rips for how you can [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/why-do-projects-really-fail/feed/ 3 http://kareemshaker.com/communication/top-5-communication-skills-for-project-managers-and-leaders/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://kareemshaker.com/communication/top-5-communication-skills-for-project-managers-and-leaders/#comments Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:56:22 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=660 I have been honoured to be interviewed by Jo Ann Sweeney to select top five from a list of 15 communication skills project mangers and leaders need to have in order to lead their teams, despite the innovative communication technologies we have, yet most of today’s business problems are due to poor communication, in this [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/communication/top-5-communication-skills-for-project-managers-and-leaders/feed/ 5 http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/first-time-project-manager/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/first-time-project-manager/#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:03:34 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=484 Are you furious about high rates of failing projects? does it bother you? project failure has been a hot topic for many years, companies and countries lose billions every year because of projects failure, look around you will find many stumbling projects, if you are unhappy about project failure, stop talking and start acting, we [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/first-time-project-manager/feed/ 20 http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/100-ways-to-know-your-project-is-fubar/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/100-ways-to-know-your-project-is-fubar/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:09:24 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=424 Have you watched Saving Private Ryan? If not it’s time to watch that great movie, in Saving Private Ryan a group of soldiers have been sent behind enemy lines to look for a solider called Ryan, and bring him back home, it was like searching for a needle in a haystack, soldiers were calling the [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/100-ways-to-know-your-project-is-fubar/feed/ 10 http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/there-are-too-many-projects-and-few-project-managers/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/there-are-too-many-projects-and-few-project-managers/#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:37:38 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=344 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 [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/there-are-too-many-projects-and-few-project-managers/feed/ 35 http://kareemshaker.com/communication/90-for-communication-is-not-enough/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://kareemshaker.com/communication/90-for-communication-is-not-enough/#comments Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:52:11 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=294 If you ask a project manager about what 90% percentage means for him, he would definitely answer “Communication”, as a rule of thumb the project manager spends 90% of his time in communication, this figure has been there for such a long time, and I think it has to be revisited, we have entered a [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/communication/90-for-communication-is-not-enough/feed/ 5 http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/weak-matrix-syndrome/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/weak-matrix-syndrome/#comments Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:24:55 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=261 A quote can summarize a whole life experience and can convey a great deal of knowledge and wisdom to the world. In my pursuit of developing project management quotes, I always try to compose new ones that represent general and project management, this is the first of a series I am going to start on [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/weak-matrix-syndrome/feed/ 5 http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/5-ways-to-influence-a-hippo/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/5-ways-to-influence-a-hippo/#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:31:35 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=221 Do you know the HIPPO? not the hippopotamus animal, it is a different HIPPO, a HIPPO is an acronym that stands for a “Highest Paid Person’s Opinion” or “Highest Paid Person in Organization”, whether you work in a small or gigantic enterprise, you will always find a HIPPO (aka CEO) around, chances are you will [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/5-ways-to-influence-a-hippo/feed/ 8 http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/10-ways-to-avoid-marketecture-trap/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed 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 http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/why-projects-fail-part-three/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/why-projects-fail-part-three/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:16:07 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=183 In part three we will examine a very interesting root cause which will make a lot of people scratch their heads, it is Project Manager, yes the project manager is one of the root causes why projects fail, while from the first look this may seem awkward as so many people will simply say that [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/why-projects-fail-part-three/feed/ 1 http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/why-projects-fail-part-two/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/why-projects-fail-part-two/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:29:25 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=164 Initiating is one of the most overlooked phases of a project lifecycle (so as is Closing), you have to keep in my mind that if you start wrong, chances are you will end wrong, just like a building’s foundation, if the foundation is not solid the building may collapse any time before or after completing [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/why-projects-fail-part-two/feed/ 0 http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/why-projects-fail-part-one/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/why-projects-fail-part-one/#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:02:59 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=146 If you google “why projects fail” you will get about 10 million results, which implies an undeniable fact, that is projects do fail, as per the study conducted by the Standish group (2004 edition), 18% of projects are considered failed (cancelled before completion), 53% of projects have been tagged as “challenged” (over budget and/or overtime [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/why-projects-fail-part-one/feed/ 5