02/06/2024 Ziad Albasir Budget, Business Development, Business Transformation, Cost Control, EPMO, EPPM, Main Pages, PMO, PPMO, Project Cost Controls, Project Portfolio Management Office, Resources Planning

How To Build Successful EPMO?

Are your real estate development ambitions crumbling under the weight of chronic delays and budget overrun? Every missed deadline and overrun, not just eroding your profit margins, but it is turning your strategic goals into dust. Are you ready to control it and stop the risk of failure? Is this the legacy you want to leave as a business leader – a trail of stalled projects and shattered dreams? Do you feel frustrated by EPMO processes that is helpless of […]

26/05/2023 Ziad Albasir Business Development, Business Transformation, Cost Control, EPMO, EPPM, Planning, Planning & Control, PMO, Portfolio Management, PPMO

How To Create an Effective Project Portfolio Management Governance

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15/03/2023 Ziad Albasir Cost Control, Planning & Control, PMO, Portfolio Management

Roadmap To A Successful Project Control Governance

Designing and implementing good project control practices require a comprehensive and collaborative understanding approach that involves various stakeholders and needs full commitment until completion. This approach guarantees successful implementation and ease the challenge it might face during execution which is very expected and normal from the old guards who used to the old systems or benefit from it. From different projects experience on different implementations, I suggest the following steps to be considered during designing the policies and governance of the […]

27/11/2022 Ziad Albasir PMO, Portfolio Management, Project Cost Controls, Project Portfolio Management Office

Project Charter

The project charter is an important part of the project development. It is the first control ground for the project. If the project doesn’t have a project charter, the project owner is missing a very important control of the project. Having an approved project charter / brief means that the project manager and the board are: 1- Understand and agree the terms of reference of the project. 2- They are willing and able to commit their time to the direction […]

16/11/2022 Ziad Albasir PMO, Portfolio Management, PPMO, Strategic Planning

The Project Director / Manager Governance

Most certified project managers know about project governance. However, some of them would have different understanding of their liability when a project doomed as failed. For the experienced project managers, when they take over a project, they will ask about the used project’s governance model. Usually, the relevant department will give the governance system to them to apply and comment. Most of the time, they are worried about its practicality and applicability. In PMI Global Congress 2015 – North America, […]

25/05/2019 Ziad Albasir Business Transformation, EPMO, EPPM, PMO, Portfolio Management, PPMO, Project Portfolio Management Office

How Old Are You In The PPMO Maturity?

How old are you in the PPMO maturity? The integration maturity of Project Portfolio Processes with Business Processes is the core of a successful PPMO to achieve the business goals of selection the right projects and delivering the projects according to its established goals. This article is a an important to read to understand the organisation maturity to manage expectations and to do the right implementation planning. This article is discussing , the project portfolio management office (PPMO) maturity levels […]

20/05/2019 Ziad Albasir Planning & Control, PMO, Portfolio Management, Project Cost Controls, Project Portfolio Management Office

Project Controls Vs. PMO

In the world of project management, there are several different terms used to describe the organizational structures that oversee projects. These terms include project control departments, Enterprise Project Management Offices (EPMOs), Program and Portfolio Management Offices (PPMOs), and Project Management Offices (PMOs). While each of these structures serves a similar purpose, there are some key differences between them that are important to understand, particularly for contractors and developers. Project Control Department A project control department is a centralized unit within […]

12/02/2019 Ziad Albasir Main Pages, PMO, Project Cost Controls, Shared Resources, Strategic Planning

Do You Measure GDP Contribution In Portfolio Management Model?

Investment on infrastructure is a critical factor for country economic health and wealth. It enables the private sector and individuals to invest and produce goods and services more efficiently. Infrastructure spending by the government or in partnership with private sector is generally, expected to result in higher economic output in the short term by stimulating demand and in the long term by increasing overall productivity. However, there are many factors involved to understand and calculate the infrastructure contribution to the […]

12/01/2019 Ziad Albasir PMO

PMO Starts With P For People

People are the core for any initiative. That’s the fact we might forget sometimes. An important idea I am finding it everyday so important since I graduated and since I started reading about project management on 1994. After that when I got PMBOK 1996 first edition , I became so addicted to project methodologies and processes. If someone asked me to do something, I will ask “do you have a process”. If they do not, I create it for myself […]

11/07/2018 Ziad Albasir Annual Budget, Budget, Cost Control, EPMO, EPPM, Forecast, PMO, Project Cost Controls, Resources Planning, Shared Resources

How to Budget EPMO/EPPM – Part1?

Calculation of the annual forecasted cost for budgeting purposes for EPMO and EPPM is a challenge for many Project Based Organisations (PBO). I am not talking here about contracted defined projects which is easy to forecast. I am talking here about permanent staff, shared staff and non-project cost budgeting. We see this also in pre-construction stage where the development of the project studies and design are on progress. We see this mainly in the client’s side, developers, consultants, project management […]

08/06/2018 Ziad Albasir PMO

Is It PrPMO Or PuPMO?

PMO is a new methodology to manage portfolios and projects. It is less than two decades of age. All limited publications and books are from personal experience more than approved methods which might (or not) give the right framework and processes for PMOs implementation and operation which applicable and fit for all organisation types. We can’t generalise PMOs governance and processes for public sector and private sectors. Even we can’t generalise it for computer software developments projects, micro management and […]

17/04/2018 Ziad Albasir PMO

Project Portfolio Implementation Check List

Project Portfolio Management is a dynamic ongoing process of selecting and delivering projects on a shared portfolio model to achieve the maximum benefits realized from the available resources to deliver the organization vision on a long term and the assigned business plans and targets on the short term (monthly, quarterly and annually). Project based organizations (PBO) are managing portfolios, programs and projects. However, are they delivering it to the maximum efficiency. In most organizations, they would have big load every […]

28/03/2018 Ziad Albasir PMO

Do You Have Portfolio Analysis Skills? – Part 2

This article is a second article for the first related article in my LinkedIn profile. please refer to it for more understanding of the article. https://zalbasireppm.com/pmo/do-you-have-portfolio-analysis-skills-part-1/ Portfolios might be defined for certain type of projects with similarity or not, with shared resources or not. The main goal is to have a director who is responsible to deliver the projects goals and the strategic goals. The following scenario is for a small consultant who defined portfolios for each region. Please refer […]

28/03/2018 Ziad Albasir PMO

Do You Have Portfolio Analysis Skills? – Part 1

Project Portfolio Analysis is so sample for a trained person. So for some of us, it will be very easy to understand the charts and tables very fast and for some, it might be new skill to gain. So please for the trained ones, give some insights to what the charts and table data are telling us. In a fast track and busy time for management, they would like to have a tool to tell them a lot by one […]

10/10/2017 Ziad Albasir PMO

Who Plan and Deliver the PMO / EPMO ?

Most organizations plan and implement their strategic initiatives all the time. However, delivering it faces difficulties and even failure. One of the important initiatives for government, developers and contractors is the PMO implementation Initiative which is a restructuring initiative which make it more difficult to plan and implement. The good news I read in the recent PMI Pulse of The Profession 2017 report, is that: ” We have learned in the past: that when proven project, program, and portfolio management […]

25/06/2017 Ziad Albasir PMO

Why PMO Is The Solution Not To Fail?

Why PMO is the solution not to fail? Project management office is a new organization structure to deliver projects. It is not a coordinating efforts by different departments to deliver projects. It is a new organization with new vision, mission and goals. It is a new culture created to rid off the bad records, prioritizing ambiguity, conflicts of authority, obstacles excuses, bottleneck and centralized decision making in the different type of organizations. Trying to build a PMO within an organization […]

04/11/2016 Ziad Albasir PMO

How to Manage Projects’ Design Shared Resources – Part 2

Goal: To demonstrate how to manage shared design resources. Level: Intermediate. Direct Users: Planning Engineers, Design Managers, Design Coordinators, and Program / Project Managers, Project Control Manager, PMO Manager and Portfolio Managers Indirect Users: CEO, COO, CFO and Directors Gained Skills Corporate Strategic Planning Resource Planning and Management Project Cost Planning and Management Resource Reporting Tools P6 Primavera Professional Rev 16.2 This article is a series of articles under the title How to Manage Projects’ Design Shared Resources. Please refer […]

02/11/2016 Ziad Albasir PMO

How to Manage Projects’ Design Shared Resources ? – Part 1

22/09/2016 Ziad Albasir PMO

Project Portfolio Implementation – The Secret Strategy

Project portfolio approach and practice is still developing for many organisations. Organisations with responsibility to deliver many projects a year like utilities companies, government organisations, assets and financial management, contractors, consultants and projects developers are the most must users for it. Portfolio defined by the PMI in “The Standards for Portfolio Management – Third Edition” as a component collection of programs, project, or operation managed as a group to achieve strategic objectives. On simple words, the portfolio is an engineering […]

31/08/2016 Ziad Albasir PMO

Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) and Data Visualization

Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) is a database management system. Because it links the projects portfolio delivery schedule status with all related data in each project (Scope, Time, Resource, and Cost) from one side and the business processes in the other side. It is the future gate for managing and control projects in the project based organization like consultant, contractors and developers who work on projects delivery. The most important examples of the EPPM outcomes are: creating visual for project […]

21/08/2016 Ziad Albasir PMO

PMO Data Visualization and Uncorrelated Data

In PMO management, sometimes you have to present a dashboard with data visualization where you didn’t maintain its data accuracy. This happen when you start a new job for new organization or when you take over someone else responsibility. So be careful of being the scapegoat of bad and uncorrelated data. It is important to highlight your findings, the gaps and limitation on your data presentation. You should present the path forward plan. However, in some cases, you need to […]

05/08/2016 Ziad Albasir PMO

PMO Implementation Requirements & Challenges

Considering the current market changes and torments, consultants and contractors are focused on operational initiatives that would keep the business running. These thinking blocks them from initiatives to innovate and stay ahead of the competition and maximizing opportunities. It also forces them to take more risks and make difficult cost cutting. Because of this thinking, they always delay new system implementation to avoid more cost and long investment. The excuse are there like disruption to operation (which is already having trouble). However, on […]