Mustafa Hafızoglu
- Program Management
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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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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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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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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