Posts Tagged ‘Project Management Fundamentals’
Communication and the Failure of the First Skyscraper Project
Long before steel beams and concrete pilings, humanity attempted its first recorded megaproject: a tower designed to reach the heavens. Genesis 11 tells us the builders had everything a modern project director would envy – unlimited manpower, a unified workforce, abundant materials, and total organizational alignment. “The whole earth had one language,” the text says,…
Read MoreFrom Technical Expert to Reluctant Project Manager: Why Talented Professionals Struggle
Across industries worldwide, talented technical professionals find themselves thrust into project management roles with little warning and even less preparation. One moment they’re excelling as engineers, developers, or subject matter experts; the next, they’re responsible for budgets, stakeholder expectations, and team dynamics they never anticipated managing.
Read MoreFundamentals of Project Management
I am developing a project management course to help project professionals bridge the theoretical gap, for those who have only experience, and the practice gap, for those who know only the theory.I am drawing from my 30+ years of oil and gas project experience both onshore and offshore, in Africa and the Middle East, working…
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