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/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/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/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-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