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-projects-fail-procurement/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed 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/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