AHMED ZOUHAIR
Ahmed is a seasoned project and program management practitioner with more than 20 years of professional services in training, teaching, IT, telecommunications, oil and gas, and consulting in Project and Program Management. He is an active Certified SCORE Mentor and a workshop presenter with SCORE.
Bio
Fluent in three languages (English, French, and Arabic) and with three degrees—including a doctorate in Business Administration—serial entrepreneur and seasoned project, product, and program management consultant Ahmed Zouhair knows the value of hard work.
He also understands what it takes to build an enterprise from scratch. While today his international roster of clients includes companies and individuals from the education, IT, telecommunications, digital security, oil and gas, finance/ banking, and non-profit sectors, Ahmed’s career didn’t start out that way.
His first job after college involved collecting mud samples during 12-hour shifts on an oil and gas rig. Such tedious work in a harsh environment taught him patience and how to think on his feet when things go wrong. He likewise learned to interact with many different types of people, skills he would later refine as a volunteer business coach and workshop presenter for SCORE.
Ahmed is a seasoned project management expert and consultant who can take your organization through what it takes to experience success. His prescriptive processes, planning, and implementation strategies employ industry best practices and leverage his 30+ years of experience. These best practices have been captured in his recent book entitled Demystifying Project Management: Project Management in Plain English for Startups. His overall life mission is to inspire and help people reach their full potential, in whatever capacity.
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Mission
My mission is to inspire and help people reach their full potential
Mission
My mission is to inspire and help people reach their full potential
About the book
What I can promise is a book that is written in plain English and chapters that are jargon-free and designed to show you how to manage projects of all types whether they are small or large, local or global, in person or digital, and for any organization. This book will serve as a toolbox for anyone. This includes for example engineers, software developers, managers, and teachers, working across the board for any industry. It will create a structure for concepts you already know, and show you how to apply them properly. This will serve as a reference book to be used all the time when managing projects.
Today, project management requires that most startups and entrepreneurs must have great customer skills, technical skills, and management skills. They have to be adaptable and great communicators to be successful in their business (See diagram).
In this book, I outline how to effectively manage your small business as a project. Small business owners will benefit greatly by incorporating more discipline, structure, methodology, and processes into their businesses.
This will allow them to standardize and establish basic but effective procedures and processes, giving them more free time to spend with their family, on their hobbies, or exercise. For example, small business owners have found a great deal of success by using for example marketing and communication plan processes with good reporting structures. They can establish goals by key results to prioritize what’s most important for their business and what’s not.
Small business owners can also benefit from utilizing a procedure toolbox that will help them track and improve the success of their business. Key components of the toolbox with details include a Customer Relationship management system (CRM), Work Break Down Structure (WBS), Backlog, Roadmap, Business Strategy, and much more. An important benefit of this book is it allows small business owners to use their own methodology of project management but optimize it to be documented and directly applied to the business..
Demystifying Project Management: Project Management in Plain English for Startups is his first book.
Beyond Certifications
There are so many certifications in Project Management. You DO NOT need all of the certificates to be a successful Project Manager. It would be best if you worked hard and got as much training as possible. The credentials will eventually come later and get you through the door for better opportunities. It depends on organizations, some may require you to have the PMP Certifications, CSM, and ITIL, while some don’t.
The point is that most folks who have PMP and other certifications are unfortunately, not qualified Project Managers. I would highly recommend focusing first on getting as much experience in project management before getting any certifications. Some of the resources for how to gain experience without credentials are on the website (see demystifyingprojectmanagement.com)