Mustafa Hafızoglu

Mustafa Hafizoglu, PMP, BS, M.Sc., is the co-founder and previous President of the PMI Chapter in Turkey, Program Director at Space & Defence Technologies Co., a part-time instructor at Middle East Technical University. He has 20 years of experience in hardware and software development projects, in the aerospace and defense industry. Mustafa established the PMO at SDT Space and Defense Tech and co-authored the book: Project Management Analytical Approaches. He’s also a speaker atPMI Global Congress and various international seminars. Mustafa writes about program management and risk management.

Risk Management
Mustafa HafızogluSeptember 16, 2020
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How to be flexible when faced with project uncertainty
Every successful project manager knows that managing risks is indispensable for project success. Being proactive especially at the beginning of the project where uncertainty is at the highest level helps project managers identify the risks as well as to assess…
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Risk Management
Mustafa HafızogluAugust 18, 2020
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Data and flexibility: Keys to managing uncertainty
Uncertainty is inevitable. There are two main ways to tackle uncertainty: You can either decrease the level of uncertainty or increase flexibility. My way of dealing with uncertainty is to apply both and find the optimum level. The efforts to…
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Program Management
Mustafa HafızogluAugust 6, 2020
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Creating learning organizations by using program management
Creating learning organizations by using program management. “Projects are one-time efforts in the organizations. As they are finished, all the resources including the people are adjourned. Then what happens to the knowledge gained by these people. What remains to the…
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Program Management
Mustafa HafızogluJuly 6, 2020
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What are the real enablers behind projects and programs?
In the project management challenge 2007 video below, Scott Horowitz, a former astronaut and NASA associate administrator for the exploration systems mission once said; “People ask me, having flown on the shuttle four times, what makes the shuttle go up?”…
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Risk Management
Mustafa HafızogluMay 29, 2020
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Take a risk and read this article
Be careful! By attempting to read this article you’re taking a risk. Will it be worth the time you spend reading this article? Is it the first time you read this author’s article? How are you sure you’ll gain benefit…
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Program Management
Mustafa HafızogluApril 23, 2020
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How to run programs and increase resilience during coronavirus?
The spread of the coronavirus has quickly become one of the biggest threats to the global economy and financial markets. The disease is spreading so rapidly around the world, as shown in Figure 1, which illustrates that confirmed cases reached…
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Program Management
Mustafa HafızogluMarch 17, 2020
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4 Steps to improve your benefits realization
It was my first time traveling to South America and for the first time. I was traveling with Latam Airlines from Bogota to Cartegena, Colombia. The most interesting thing for this flight was its departure time, that is, 10:47 a.m.…
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Program Management
Mustafa HafızogluDecember 12, 2019
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A solution to the dilemma of project success: Programs and benefits realization
The concept of success in project management has focused on completing the project on time, within budget, and at specifications, also called “triple constraint.” However, the triple constraint does not work in the modern business world anymore. Many scholars have…
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Program Management
Mustafa HafızogluAugust 19, 2019
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Program management in industry 4.0
While attending the PMI Turkey Chapter Summit I heard the best definition of Industry 4.0 from Ali Rıza Ersoy,program management, Deputy General Manager and Digital Factory Division Manager of Siemens: “Transforming from arm muscle to brain muscle.” This simple but…
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PMO and EPMO
Mustafa HafızogluMay 31, 2019
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Organizational structure as a project and program success enabler/disabler
At the beginning of May 2019, I organized the first Project Management Offices (PMO) Summit in Istanbul, Turkey. Over 25 PMOs shared and discussed their unique structures, challenges, expectations, solutions, and the trends for future PMOs. The three important results…
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