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Last week I have conducted a very interesting PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner training for the Signal Regiment of the Sultanate Army of Oman. It was a very unique experience. It was a real pleasure working with such competent and smart group of people from Oman. At the end of the training I was honor with the … Continue reading TRAINING: PRINCE2 Foundation and Practitioner – SAF/Signal Regiment – Oman
In coordination with Optimza Academy I have conducted PRINCE2 Foundation training for a group of competent IT Managers from UNRWA. Delegates are managing IT units in Jordan, Palestine (West Bank an Gaza), Lebanon and Syria. The foundation training lasted for 3 days, December 3rd to December 5th, and took place in IBIS hotel in Amman.
Most people are married mentally to the status quo. They want what was, not what can be. They seek safety and simple answers from How Successful People Think
Thinking is a hard work; that’s why so few do it Albert Eisenstein
It is not a good idea to structure the whole organization according to processes. Processes are used to overcome the ‘silo effect’ of departments, not to create silos. From ITIL V3 Service Operation
Last week I conducted ITIL V3 Foundation training for a group of six managers and engineers at Texum. It was one of the best group I ever worked with. They were really very interested in acquiring new knowledge and practices. They have consistently challenged me with questions, that reflects great passion for knowledge, as well … Continue reading EVENT: ITIL V3 Foundation Training – Texum
Yesterday I have attended GJordan, my impressions were not really very good. I found that presentations and discussions were really very shallow, and I did not really learned much about new technologies. That does not definitely means that Google does not have great and exciting technologies and tools, but, I believe it was improper organization.
The book is supposed to expose what’s going on inside Steve’s jobs brain and illustrate his thought process. I honestly found the book interesting to read, yet with no real value. Big part of the book is repeating over and over again how intensive the design process at apple is. At some stage I felt … Continue reading REVIEW: Inside Steve’s Brain
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.
A very interesting presentation about tackling scalability limitations in legacy databases- if I may. The presentation organization is well-organized. It started with illustrating, why we need to think differently in SQL and how all the “noSQL” solution focuses on new models and not focusing on the real issues like optimizing IO. They focus on making … Continue reading REVIEW: SQLFire – Scalable SQL instead of NoSQL
Ala' Yasin Abuhijleh 