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/project-management/project-failure-voice-of-the-professionals/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/project-failure-voice-of-the-professionals/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:42:15 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=626 Project failure has always been a hot topic; many organizations have come a very long way to define the root causes of project failure hoping to reduce the increasing rates of project failure. Arras People have recently released the 2010 Project Management Benchmark Report that has been conducted to understand how the recession has impacted [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/project-failure-voice-of-the-professionals/feed/ 2 http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/brand-conversation-with-al-taee/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/brand-conversation-with-al-taee/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:15:44 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=515 I have been honoured to get a great brand conversation with Mohammed Al Taee, Mohammed is an enthusiastic entrepreneur who is specialized in personal branding and social media, he had brand conversations with many celebrities such as Seth Godin, our conversation was centred around project management, you can read the full conversation here Tweet This! [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/brand-conversation-with-al-taee/feed/ 5 http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/scope-creep-and-gold-plating-are-two-sides-of-the-same-coin/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/scope-creep-and-gold-plating-are-two-sides-of-the-same-coin/#comments Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:06:10 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=507 While Scope Creep and Gold Plating may appear as two different issues in project management, they are relevant and very likely to result in unsatisfied customers, the creep term is so true, you start a small change and accept it without enough analysis then you find yourself doing another change in order to implement the [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/scope-creep-and-gold-plating-are-two-sides-of-the-same-coin/feed/ 8 http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/methodology-matters/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/methodology-matters/#comments Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:52:07 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=494 A couple of days ago I had a chance to attend a project management workshop about a new project management methodology called CAM2P (Customizable and Adaptable Methodology for Managing Projects), the workshop had different people from different industries such as IT, construction, oil & gas, and marketing & media, there have been many discussions about [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/methodology-matters/feed/ 4 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/do-the-right-things-right/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/do-the-right-things-right/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:13:16 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=473 What do you do if you get asked to handle a wrong project that if it was your call you wouldn’t do it at all? I have seen many discussions about this topic on Twitter, while the main duty of the project manager is to deliver the project within the triple constraints, yet effective project [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/do-the-right-things-right/feed/ 7 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/the-doormat-project-manager-syndrome/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/the-doormat-project-manager-syndrome/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:51:53 +0000 Kareem http://kareemshaker.com/?p=413 Do you always say YES? It’s time to say NO! many project mangers intentionally play this role of a doormat, they mistakenly think it would make them successful or at least get seen as obedient and trying to always please each and every stakeholder, being a doormat destroys the professional image of the project manager [...]]]> http://kareemshaker.com/project-management/the-doormat-project-manager-syndrome/feed/ 0 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/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/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