In a region where PMP certification is assumed all-what-you-need for project management, occasionally, I have to answer the question “Why PRINCE2, you’re already a PMP?”.
PRINCE2 stands for PRojects In Controlled Environment. PRINCE2 is a project management methodology,that is mainly concerned with establishing, maintaining and controlling the project environment. Continue reading
In contrary to the prevailing belief that implementing SOA needs a big investment ahead, this presentation illustrates the process of implementing SOA in small/cost-effective iterations.
According to the presentation, SOA can be implemented similar to Agile development with one difference. Agile focuses on incremental implementation, while Zero Investment SOA is implemented as incremental deliveries, where each iteration deliver value to stakeholders, higher than the cost involved, using feedback from earlier steps to adjust requirements and design accordingly. Continue reading
Cover of The One Minute Manager
One Minute Manager is a book that you could finish in one session! the book is a story-like where a young man is meeting the One Minute Manager, his reports and coworkers to understand the secrets of the One Minute Manager efficiency.
According to the book, One Minute Goals, One Minute Praisings and one Minute Reprimands is all you need to be an effective manager. The main idea of the 3 techniques is to give straight forward directions and feedback in one minute only.
It all starts with One Minute Goals. The goal is no more 250 words, fits on one paper and requires only a minute to read
As the employee start with the implementation, Continue reading
A well-organized 6 pages case study published by Best Management Practices illustrating using ITIL and PRINCE2 together in setting up a service desk in an offshore site. Current service desk was reaching capacity and expansion in the current location was not physically possible or cost-effective. The new service desk should follow ITIL procedures.
The case study is very realistic, easy to understand, relate to and written in a very simple language. The case study illustrates how PRINCE2 supports ITIL and vice versa. Continue reading
Aditya Agarwal, Director of engineering at facebook, gave a very interesting presentation in May 28th at QCon illustrating Facebook architecture.
Aditya stressed on making it quickly to the market and not to over engineer. “Scalability is a good problem to have” as stated by Aditya.
1. users spend 8 billion a minute per day on Facebook
2. 5 billion piece of content shared every week
2. More than 400 million active users (logged in the the last 30 days)
3. Biggest photo site on the web! larger than the aggregated sum of all other sites Continue reading
I’ve conducted this presentation at Optimiza Academy in Amman, Jordan on Thursday 31st of December 2009
Based on Toastmasters Building a Team manual, from Club excellence series, the following presentation illustrate how to build and maintain harmony within a team in order to achieve goals.
