A Project Manager's Diary

The more you know, the more you know there will be more to know! I found that in practical life, a project is a group of upside-down events and tasks. It is as much as if you are walking in Wonderland… People’s knowledge, way of thinking, decisions and behavior are countless and weird, accordingly, projects -which I consider kind of living creatures- follow people… and the results are well known in such cases! I discovered that bad practices usually take 2 years to be moved from the frustration memory to the experience memory. By time, the 2 years period -based on some self-extensive training- can be eliminated. It is also proportional to the duration of the bad practice itself. I used to believe that everything I see in a project is the utmost extreme of all what I saw and that there will be no odder situations to face, though this thought was proven wrong by time… I keep meeting and seeing new Wonderlands and new project management adventures! I was thinking about naming the blo...

Some people consciously choose to fail! Usually people write about their success stories… Well, I decided to write about what I call my failure story . You can consider this blog as part of a documentary book on the quickest steps and worst practices to attain failure smoothly! From my point of view, a good and very fast way to failure starts with having to deal with uneducated not willing to learn people who reinvent the wheel in everything they do while thinking they are making great achievements for humanity, which is of course by going many steps backward! Such people highly rely in their work on the concept of pretending to be smart and on applying theories in very wrong ways. This always ends with catastrophic failures in projects accompanied by huge financial losses. In our contemporary life, these people are not rare, I think they invaded and dominated the fields of Software Development and Software Development Management, though there are still many many good people who ...

My awareness with the field of Software started in my early childhood. Engineering Symptoms Some engineering symptoms started appearing on me when I was a kid… At first, I was staring at things for hours without talking… My father told me that he was always wondering “ what’s going on in her mind! ”… Sometime later, I started disassembling things, starting from toys and ending with electrical appliances (radio cassettes, washing machines…) and using the spare parts to build something else. I sometimes just disassembled machines just to rebuild them after a great exploration phase. I was kind of danger, but my folks liked this. I also used to sketch weird drawings for images in my mind till I was introduced to my first PC at the age of 11. When I saw it, new ideas started formulating in my head, I was reading a lot, and I wrote my first computer game at the age of 12, it was kind of strange for people around me but I liked the idea a lot and I decided to be an engineer, a computer’s...

I am a Project Manager and I love my job… I am a project Manager and I love doing my work! I am nothing more but a Project Manager amongst many others. I got married to my work (not job) after a great love story which started from early childhood ( coming soon ). I started my career as a Software Developer in the late 90s, then held many positions in the field of Software Development, some were promotions and some were kind of additional assignments due to my performance. Among the positions I held are Developer, Team Leader, Project Manager, Project Leader, Senior Project Manager, Senior Project Leader, Program Manager, Business Analyst… though I was dreaming about becoming an Architect! But seriously the job I loved the most is Project Management. The things I hated the most in my early years were politics and economics/finance, which both became the core of my daily work for some years now! 94% of my experience was built by working in Software Houses as a vendor/provider and ...