Mustafa Hafızoglu
- Program Management
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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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 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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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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Risk management: Threat or opportunity
On March 25th, 2019 a text message woke me up in the early hours of the morning. It was from my airline Pegasus telling me that since there would be a transport strike at Fiumicino Rome Airport on Monday, it…
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A starter’s guide to program management
What is a Program Manager and Program management? Here’s a quick guide to program management. T his role emerged as an extension of project management in the late 20th Century. This extension came from the increasing complexity of the projects,…
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How to create and unearth more benefits with program management
Philip Kotler, the guru of marketing, defined the purpose of marketing as the process of making people happier and more satisfied, in his speech at the World Marketing Summit in Istanbul in December 2018. Moreover, he suggested that creating a…
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The one inescapable risk of managing projects
I’ve just started a new project, and yes, the same risk is on the list as it was in the risk register for over 100 of the projects I completed. People… When I meet with my team at the initiation…
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7 Tips for adopting the right mindset for successful program management
Most organizations have various projects with various stakeholders. Market pressure on shortened life cycles of new products, minimizing costs and increasing the scope makes project management even more indispensable for these organizations. On the other hand, although it has been…
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5 Ambiguities in program management that every organization should understand
If an organization aims to obtain benefits that cannot be obtained by managing each of the related projects but is available by managing these projects in a coordinated manner, then programs can be defined in this organization. Although the academic…
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