Mounir Ajam; The Author of

Project Management beyond Waterfall and Agile (Best Practices in Portfolio, Program, and Project Management)

About the Author

Mounir A. Ajam is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, coach, advisor, consultant, volunteer leader, and project management thought leader. He is a senior executive with more than three decades of outstanding global and practical experience in capital project industries such as engineering, construction, petroleum, utilities, project management, and management consultancy. He has worked on projects worth billions of US dollars in North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, and West Asia. His experience includes working small and multiple projects and large and complex projects, including mega projects in the United States and in Southeast Asia. Mr. Ajam is a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of SUKAD Group, a leading project management provider with offices in Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates, founded in 2004.

Leading Megaprojects: A Tailored Approach

This book’s core focus is on how to lead megaprojects, concept to success, using a tailored approach.

We will introduce the fundamentals and vital concepts for the tailored approach in the first part of the book, then follow it with a simulation of a realistic project in the second part. However, before presenting the tailored approach and the simulation, the book addresses the current reality and the challenges of the megaproject management practice.

Our discussions emphasize a project life cycle (PLC) model to lead megaprojects from concepts to closure (concept to success), which makes this book’s focus ideal for project owners. This owners’ PLC focus is critical because (1) the success and failure of megaprojects start with the project owner in the discovery phase of a project; and (2) there are not enough resources covering projects from concept to closure. Even the numerous postgraduate programs from leading universities are focused on engineering or construction management—that is, the implementation (execution) phase of capital projects. Further, the emphasis on the project owners is that these organizations are the ones that launch the projects and will own their products to generate the benefits from the produced asset. In this context, a project owner could be a private or public entity.

Although this book is ideal for project owners and their executives, senior managers, and project teams, it is highly valuable for all other organizations involved in projects, including engineering, construction, and project/construction management companies. Another message to stress at this time is that this book is also suitable for all industries that handle large and complex projects, so do not let the title of megaprojects intimidate you into believing it is limited to engineering and construction.

to order and to read more, consider the below links

https://www.crcpress.com/Leading-Megaprojects-A-Tailored-Approach/Ajam/p/book/9780367340506

https://sukad.com/ski/books/leading-megaprojects-a-tailored-approach