27/03/2023 Ziad Albasir Cost Control, Forecast, Leadership, Main Pages, Planning & Control, Project Cost Controls, Project Portfolio Management Office, Strategic Planning

“How Big Things Get Done” Book Review – Part 2, The Success

Success road is always paved with failure. Success which creates value and benefits is rare as shown in part 1 of this review. That’s why part 1 of the Book “How Big Things Get Done” review was first about failure not success. Success starts by learning from others’ failures before you learn from yours. The provided cases give us very good positive learning. The book discussed many successful mega medium and small projects cases to understand how projects team succeed […]

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, […]

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 […]

13/05/2018 Ziad Albasir Strategic Planning

Do you have a VSP?

Project based organisations (PBO) visionary leaders must have a Visual Strategic Portfolio (VSP) within their enterprise project portfolios management (EPPMS) system. Visualisation of the SP means visualisation of your ultimate goals. The current or near future goals are business as usual. It doesn’t reflect the main existence of your organisation. Another reason to have the VSP is that the visionary leaders know they will face many challenges to manoeuvre defining initial targets to make it easy to manage. However, not […]

12/12/2016 Ziad Albasir Strategic Planning

Projects Delivery KPIs

Projects delivery KPIs are important to measure the risks and opportunities that influence the strategic performance of projects and the team involved. The project management KPIs types could be defined mainly around the following Criteria: 1. Financial: These are typically utilized when the measure is monetary. 2. Quantitative: These are for projects where the relevant metric is not financial but is something that can be quantified numerically like time delivery. 3. Qualitative: A qualitative KPI is used when the relevant […]

10/12/2016 Ziad Albasir Strategic Planning

Do You Have A Competitive Mechanism?

In challenging market where the pressure to win new contracts to maintain the targeted profit becomes a survival risk, management tends to make very tough decisions. Some of these decisions are around cutting costs. Some are around increasing efficiency and some are about new thinking and new operation model. However, success is a habit. It is a defined process and systems. It is not a change forced to do. Therefore, when we study the successful models for big companies we […]

31/08/2016 Ziad Albasir Strategic Planning

Building The Organisation Systems Around Customers Need

It was so interesting to listen and read the in the different media the details of the PwC’s 19th Annual Global CEO Survey in Davos. What attracting me more in the survey was a point which I was advocating for long time which is organization transformation to use the latest technology related to how we do business. The survey showed that 90% of CEOs surveyed are trying to use latest technologies and inventions. However, they are being challenged to align all parts of their operating model behind customer strategies. In the field of engineering & construction, the challenge of aligning […]

31/08/2016 Ziad Albasir Strategic Planning

The Importance of Mapping the Right Project Delivery Process within the Enterprise Integrated System

Integration the business strategy within the project delivery process and vice versa is the core foundation to have a sustainable enterprise growth and profit. However, it is not that sample as it sounds. It is still a challenge for many organizations to have such integration. The first challenge is having ONE project delivery process from creation to closeout based on the different organization business lines. The detail within the processes is what marks the organization as successful on efficient delivery, successful […]