31 March 2009

Master and Teacher

I had the pleasure to join the workshop for project management in healthcare IT, which was held as an adjacent activity to the e-HIM symposium I attended last week.The workshop was much like an introductory course in project management for IT professionals who don't know about PM, and for me, was a kind of a refesher course with emphasis on healthcare IT projects, which we become involved in every now and then.I must admit that the most useful thing in this course is being instructed (unknowingly) by the teacher of my teacher who gave me the PMP course before. I've noticed some similarity in the teaching style and flow, and confirmed that when I spoke to the instructor (Eng.Momen) in one of the breaks,and it turned out that my former PM instructor (Eng.Nael) was one of his students, and that they worked together in one of the major e-government projects in the country.I don't know why, but it felt good to be trained by the master and the teacher, both of great knowledge and personality.
The emphasis on the importance and the usual failure in risk management in IT projects was very clear, as well as the focus on meeting the end-user requirements and satisfaction for a successful outcome.

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