EVENT: Presentation at University of Jordan

Below  the presentation I gave today at the university of Jordan as part of the Open Source Technological Week, the presentation illustrates “where does the time go?” between typing a URL in the address bar till the page is completely rendered. The purpose of this presentation is to understand where and how the time is … Continue reading EVENT: Presentation at University of Jordan

PERSPECTIVE: The Best PM Tool!

Since my first days in project management, I realized that existing project management applications are so rigid, at least for software development. Documentation, reports and plans are solely managed and updated by the project managers, reports and status updates are reactive. They are submitted upon request or on timely manner.   Apparently, they perfectly cover planning … Continue reading PERSPECTIVE: The Best PM Tool!

EVENT: Jordan Web Awards

In a fogy atmosphere that is saturated with cigarettes smoke, Jordan Web Awards were distributed last Saturday in Hyatt. Being an anti-smoking fanatic, I have to say it was not a pleasant experience. In three hours, I believe that I inhaled an amount of cigarettes smoke that superseded the amount I inhaled in the last … Continue reading EVENT: Jordan Web Awards

REVIEW: IT Project Management: Best of 2009

The best IT project management articles on TechRepublic in 2009 20 cynical project management tips Very ironic yet realistic facts about project management. You’ll enjoy reading them. Agile project management: Estimating the unknown An excellent article to answer the dilemma of budgeting and time-estimating for the entire project, which is taking against agile methodologies as … Continue reading REVIEW: IT Project Management: Best of 2009

PERSPECTIVE: FDD vs SCRUM

“At Bayt.com, we had opted to use FDD. While I believe that SCRUM, as all other agile methodologies is excellent in supporting human-oriented software development environment, I continue to believe that it lacks well defined control points (milestones) that are required to track the progress of features implementation. It is clearly focused more on the … Continue reading PERSPECTIVE: FDD vs SCRUM

PERSPECTIVE: Project Management Wave

Experts say that up to 90% of a project manager’s time is spent on communication either with stakeholders, project team, suppliers or upper management within the organization. That volume speaks about the importance of communication to any project. Experienced project managers can relate to this, when communications is done properly, the project is more likely … Continue reading PERSPECTIVE: Project Management Wave