Hi all,

I have had a chance to chat with Cornelius Fichtner of Project Management Podcast. We were discussing my new book "Project Scope Management: A Practical Guide to Requirements for Engineering, Product, Construction, IT and Enterprise Projects" and in the course of the interview I was asked to answer the following questions:

1. What is project scope management?
2. What is the state of project scope management nowadays?
3. Why did you decide to write a book about it?
4. What makes this book unique?
5. Who is this book for?
6. What are the main processes in the project scope management?
7. What is the state of project scope management in the IT and software development industries?
8. What is the state of project scope management in construction, product development, engineering?
9. What is your perspective on project scope management in multidisciplinary or enterprise projects?
10. How does project management play into this?

The interview has already been downloaded more than 27,000 times from the PM Podcast website.. Hope you enjoy it as well.

About the Author

Hi all,

I have had a chance to chat with Cornelius Fichtner of Project Management Podcast. We were discussing my new book "Project Scope Management: A Practical Guide to Requirements for Engineering, Product, Construction, IT and Enterprise Projects" and in the course of the interview I was asked to answer the following questions:

1. What is project scope management?
2. What is the state of project scope management nowadays?
3. Why did you decide to write a book about it?
4. What makes this book unique?
5. Who is this book for?
6. What are the main processes in the project scope management?
7. What is the state of project scope management in the IT and software development industries?
8. What is the state of project scope management in construction, product development, engineering?
9. What is your perspective on project scope management in multidisciplinary or enterprise projects?
10. How does project management play into this?

I have already received some very positive feedback regarding the interview. Hope you enjoy it as well.

About the Author

Hi all,

Just wanted to let you know that I will be teaching my 2-day “Project and Portfolio Management Masterclass” in London, UK in partnership with Marcus Evans on 13-14-Nov of this year. Here is a high-level outline of the class:

• How to Deliver Exceptional Project Results
• The Art of Estimation
• Are we Supposed to Negotiate on Projects?
• How to Define Project Scope?
• Customer Walkthroughs, Technical Inspections and Peer Reviews
• Why Should You Manage Scope and Customer Expectations?
• How to Maximise a Portfolio Value?
• How to Balance Your Portfolio?
• How to Link Portfolio to Strategy
• How to Implement Project Portfolio Management?

The detailed course outline can be accessed here (note you will be taken to the Marcus Evans website). For a detailed course brochure and registration information click here.

Let me know if you have any questions @ jmoustafaev@gmail.com

Cheers,

Jamal

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Interview with PPM2012 speaker: Jamal Moustafaev, MBA, PMP, Author of the book – Delivering Exceptional Project Results

We are pleased to announce that PPM2012 speaker: Jamal Moustafaev, MBA, PMP, Author of the book ‘Delivering Exceptional Project Results’, has given an exclusive interview with iCompetences in the run up to his speaking session at the Strategic Program & Portfolio Management International Seminar.

Farid Yandouz, iCompetences: Today we are talking to Jamal Moustafaev, MBA and PMP from Vancouver, Canada. Jamal is an internationally acclaimed expert and speaker in the areas of project/portfolio management and an author of the book titled “Delivering Exceptional Project Results: A Practical Guide to Project Selection, Scoping, Estimation and Management”.  Jamal, thank you very much for agreeing to chat with me today.

Jamal Moustafaev: It is my pleasure, Farid. Thank you for the invitation.

Farid Yandouz, iCompetences: So, Jamal, let us start at the very beginning: what is project portfolio management?

Jamal Moustafaev: My favourite “textbook” definition of project portfolio management is:

The science and the art of selecting the best  (i.e. optimal) project mix for the organization subject to known internal and external constraints.

In other words, as a leader of my organization how do I ensure that I deliver the best possible mix of products or services to my customers while respecting my human and other resource constraints?

Farid Yandouz, iCompetences: Why is project portfolio management becoming so popular lately?

Jamal Moustafaev: It has been recently estimated that approximately 40% of our project investments fail to deliver their intended results partially because of our poor delivery and partially because we end up selecting the wrong projects for implementation. To put this in perspective, that is more than $5.2 trillion wasted worldwide. That is trillion with a “t”!

We are very proud to announce that Jamal Moustafaev, the president and CEO of Thinktank Consulting as been designated as a project and portfolio management subject matter expert by the British Columbia Technology Industry Association.

http://www.bctia.org/Centre4Growth/Experts/Subject-Matter-Experts#Jamal%...

About the Author

Jamal Moustafaev, MBA, PMP – president and founder of Thinktank Consulting is an internationally acclaimed expert and speaker in the areas of project/portfolio management, scope definition, process improvement and corporate training. Jamal Moustafaev has done work for private-sector companies and government organizations in Canada, US, Asia, Europe and Middle East.  Read Jamal’s Blog @ www.thinktankconsulting.ca

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Jamal is an author of two very popular books: Delivering Exceptional Project Results: A Practical Guide to Project Selection, Scoping, Estimation and Management and Project Scope Management: A Practical Guide to Requirements for Engineering, Product, Construction, IT and Enterprise Projects.

The "Program & Portfolio Management Case Studies" presentation at the PPM conference in Casablanca, Morocco in 2012

The "How To Implement Project Portfolio Management?" presentation at the PPM conference in Casablanca, Morocco in 2012

A presentation I did at the Project Portfolio Management conference in Casablanca, Morocco in 2012

The "Questions and Answers" portion of my Vancouver Board of Trade keynote on project portfolio management. Very interesting and thoughtful comments and inquiries from the participants.

In the modern business landscape where lean resources are the norm, are your teams optimized to deliver exceptional project results? This presentation will focus on the key question facing executives and project managers alike: "what does it take to deliver great projects and/or products?