Personal Branding of a Project Manager: Part – 3

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP

In my previous articles (Part-1 and Part-2) I elaborated on the importance of personal branding and impacts of first introduction with new team and organization for creating a long-term relationship. In this article I will narrate the beginning of the journey while nurturing the base of establishing personal reputation within the new organization and the new project team. Well, these are definitely based on my personal experiences and understanding.

Future Leadership in Bangladesh: The Next Predicament

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP

Baby Boomers (Those who were born during the post World War II era from 1946 to 1964) retirement in the United States has been a growing concern since 2005 due to the sudden vacuums in the leadership positions across public and private sectors. Whilst this generational extinction in the natural cycle of evolution is neither unexpected nor is supposed to be catastrophic, this may cause endemic impacts across the country due to the absence of imbalanced generic rule of ‘demand and supply’.

Managing Projects Through Emotional Intelligence

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP

Managing projects demands soft skills more than the hard skills. The most realistic rationale for this empirical maxim is due to the importance of people and relationship management for the successful delivery of the projects. Speaking from my thousands hours of project management experiences, I found most of the projects suffer heavily due to the mismanagement of project stakeholders including core project team. 

Project Management: An Effective Methodology of Integrating 21st Century Skills in Education System

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP

Exponential changes taking place across the world have contributed paradigm shift in every sectors of modern civilization. One of the most visible changes is in the workplace making the employment ever more challenging than before despite of increased avenues of employment opportunities.

A Compilation of Contemporary Leadership Concepts and Personal Thoughts

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP

‘Leaders are born, not made’ – has been a widely spoken metaphor for decades. Interestingly, this belief on leadership is still a paradox since think tanks of leadership doctrine in the past and present have neither quashed out nor embraced the idea with spontaneity. However, with the evolutionary research outcomes on the Neuroscience and discovery of much talked-about Emotional Intelligence (EI) in the last decade has been the most encouraging in the belief of leadership development across the world.

Personal Branding of a Project Manager: Part – 2

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP

In my previous article (Part-1) I presented a brief synopsis on the importance and impact of personal branding or personal reputation of a Project Manager (PM) in an organization based on my experiences. I also reflected as to how the lack of personal reputation can trail the project success to failure.

Personal Branding of a Project Manager: Part – 1

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP

Managing projects has inherent challenges. The magnitude of the challenges is even greater in functional or matrix organizations. Challenges get further multifaceted based on the level of organizational maturity on project management. A Project Manager (PM) is the first point of contract to encounter every such challenge in a project.

Realities of Risk Management in Financial Sectors

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently inquired about the updates on the high profile financial scams that took place since last one year and sent a letter to the Finance Ministry to know about the recovery drives undertaken by the Government for one of the largest scams. Three main financial scams namely Hall Mark Group (Sonali Bank), AB Trade Link (Basic Bank) and Bismillah Group (Janata Bank Limited, Prime Bank Limited, Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited, Jamuna Bank Limited and Premier Bank Limited) involved a disputed amount of more than Taka 90 billion.

Implementation of Development Projects in Bangladesh: Focal Areas of Improvement

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP

Development projects in Bangladesh have been the lifeline of improvements ever since its independence. These projects, either funded by Government or International development agencies, have been mostly focused in the areas of emerging micro economy developments, poverty alleviation, establishment of infrastructures, and improvements of health, hygiene and sanitation. Irrespective of sources of funding these projects have been predominantly contributing in the ongoing

Trend of Investment in Information Technology

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP

Information Technology (IT) has been globally accepted as one of the key drivers in coping up with the rapid changing marketplace. Even living a life in this century has become almost impossible without the inevitable intervention of technology in our day-to-day affairs. In fact, fusion of IT has been imperceptibly got embedded into our entire value system. In the corporate world, technology hype is now ascending towards the pinnacle faster than ever before particularly in the developing countries where acceleration of IT investment got momentum in the early 90s. In most of the developed countries where IT investment got its induction in the late 70s are already at the peak of maturity curve. Irrespective of geographical boundaries, expected ‘Return on Investment (ROI)’ from IT has been paradoxical due to the reasons, which indeed are controllable but often are overlooked or neglected by the organizations and thereby turning the blessing of IT into burden.

How to Study and Prepare for PMP® Exam: Suggestive Guidelines

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP

I have been receiving many requests from my friends, peers and colleagues including some professional training institutions for providing guidelines and trainings on PMP exam preparation. Unfortunately due to my professional engagements and extremely busy schedules I have not been able to respond positively to those requests. However, in a piecemeal basis I tried to share my experiences through briefing, sharing documents and published references/study materials on PMP exam preparation. I have written this article for all those PMP aspirants and anyone who may be considering to become a globally certified PMP credential holder.

How Many Is One?

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP


It sounds ridiculous and foolish when one asks the question, “How many is one?” Well, this was asked by one of the legendary hero of the world history ‘Alexander The Great’. At the age of thirteen Alexander’s father Philip of Macedonia arranged for a tutor who’s name was Aristotle, one of the greatest philosopher of the world. Alexander asked his teacher Aristotle, “How many is one?” Hearing the question of his young student, Aristotle was stunned and equally got amazed. But he was not sure on that moment how to answer this question; should he answer mathematically, metaphorically or philosophically? He told his young student that he would answer on the following day. And on the next day, Aristotle answered, “One can be a great many”.

A Complaint But Not A Complaint..!

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP

Many a times we tumble into the trap of evoking agonizing sentiments to others that often turn into an uncontrollable debacle in our personal, social and professional life due to the failure of identifying the sheer impacts of a complaint on a person. The art of expressing and communicating a complaint plays the most crucial role in regard to impacting the emotional mind of a person against whom a complaint is expressed.

A Tribute to Nelson Mandela

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP

Nelson Mandela is my role model – a continuous source of inspiration and motivation. He always reminds me about - inspires me a sense – and gives me the feeling of serenity, tranquility, peace and love. In many cross-roads of my personal and professional life, I followed the rays of lights that Mandela promoted and fostered throughout his eternal life. Legacy of his life always radiates his devotion and love for humanity. Looking into the lens of past-present-future, Mandela is undoubtedly one of the greatest leaders and a visionary statesman in the history.

A Tiny Book with a Trove of Knowledge on Lean Six Sigma

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP

‘Six Sigma’ or ‘Lean Six Sigma’ is used to be unfamiliar terminologies a few decades ago. This is now a globally recognized process improvement initiative across all types of industries. Particularly, when companies like Toyota, Motorola and GE, being some of the successful first movers of Six Sigma implementation, evidenced tangible benefits by securing service excellence, quality improvements and costs optimization, Six Sigma has become synonymous as the driving engine of any types of quality improvements.

Tips for PMP Exam: Before and During the Exam

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP

Congratulations to all registered PMP Exam Participants!

I wish you all an excellent exam and hope to see you onboard with your PMP Credential - the most prestigious recognition in project management profession in particular and definitely highly credible in the entire spectrum of professional domains. Based on my personal experiences and also shared knowledge from Ida Harding, one of the most experienced Council Leads in 'Leadership in Project Management Community of Practice (LiPM CoP)' of PMI, I have prepared the following tips and suggestions which I thought would be helpful:

Impacts of Positive Emotional Attractor (PEA) and Negative Emotional Attractor (NEA)

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP

Recently I completed a course on “Inspiring Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence” conducted by Professor Richard E. Boyatzis, Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, USA. It was an amazing experience and enormous learning endeavor for me. I really enjoyed all the lectures of Professor Boyatzis and learnt many aspects of Emotional Intelligence (EI). Thanks to Coursera (www.coursera.org) for partnering and organizing this course. I would like to share some of my learning of Emotional Intelligence through reflecting and sharing my real life experiences.

A Case Study of Emotional Intelligence (EI): Narayana Murthy – A Unique Example of Humility

Md. Abdullah Al Mamoon, PMP

Some exceptionally inspiring thoughts that I ever come to know from one of the richest person in the world yet very humble in his deliberation, expression and actions while remaining focused on the ultimate vision of the company. Mr. Murthy exhibited almost all the emotional and social competencies throughout his life.