tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54005682011-04-22T04:41:18.548+08:00This blog discusses all matters related to the science, art and practice of project management in Malaysia.<br><br>Even beyond project management!Berismannoreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400568.post-1067994335352167282003-11-05T08:49:00.000+08:002003-11-05T09:05:33.940+08:00

Insufficient Equipment Delays Bakun Dam Tan Sri Nik Mohamed Nik Yaacob, chief executive, admitted that the Bakun dam project was behind schedule at Sime Darby's AGM yesterday. He said that the delay is partly due to insufficient equipment but is less than the six months reported elsewhere. He stressed that the project will be completed on time by September 2007. He further said that the delay

Kura-Kuranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400568.post-1067483539820033982003-10-30T11:06:00.000+08:002003-10-30T11:15:34.223+08:00

Highly Profitable Construction Industry Whatever their problems, Malaysian construction companies seem very profitable in comparison with their Western counterparts. A table of some major British construction companies' operating margins was recently published by a subsidiary of The Financial TImes. The margins seem so low in comparison: 3.3% Alfred McAlpine 2.9% Amec 2.4% Kier 2.2% Balfour

Kura-Kuranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400568.post-1067046224724072462003-10-25T09:42:00.000+08:002003-10-25T09:43:44.136+08:00

Smelter Asia Things are already starting to look tough for the Smelter Asia project even though it's four years before the scheduled opening of its aluminium smelting plant. The plant has a projected capacity of 500,000 tonnes which is much, much higher than the total demand for aluminium in Malaysia. The viability of the project must be highly dependant upon exports. According to one of its

Kura-Kuranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400568.post-1066791806778120772003-10-22T10:55:00.000+08:002003-10-22T11:05:40.023+08:00

Contingency Galore? Today's New Straits Times quoted the Deputy Transport Minister on progress on the double tracking project from Rawang to Ipoh. He said the project is 70 per cent complete, is on schedule, will be completed by December 2004 and operations will begin a year later. If I've read that correctly that's 12 months between project completion and starting operations. That's a lot of

Kura-Kuranoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400568.post-1058712803110207782003-07-20T22:53:00.000+08:002003-07-20T22:53:22.950+08:00

Last month,we have Mindef's project fiasco. Now, we have another interesting and juicy story of computer school labs that failed to be completed on time after two years of EoT.It was reported in the newspapers that the east coast projects have structural defects!May be more will be exposed later... We have been doing projects for more than 100 years in this country of ours.Now, we are in the 8th

Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400568.post-1057681397493332482003-07-09T00:23:00.000+08:002003-07-09T00:23:17.480+08:00

Now ,malaysia is in the middle of her 8th Malaysian Plan. Thousands of projects have been approved and implemented worth billions of ringgits. By now, we should have a project management culture of our own.But do we have a culture of excellence in managing projects?

Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400568.post-1056244285973598272003-06-22T09:11:00.000+08:002003-07-04T23:39:40.176+08:00

I hope the recent exposure by Army chief about "deviations" in implementing projects worth RM 114 millions will be a wake-up call to all those people in all sectors, especially the governments who are entrusted with public fund. This wake-up call will come to nothing if those who are involved in projects are NOT enabled with knowledge on how to go about managing their projects. Yesterday, while

Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400568.post-1053392902322643542003-05-20T09:08:00.000+08:002003-05-20T09:08:22.230+08:00

When I discover Project Management Institute(USA) and Association for Project Management(UK) in early 2000, I just wonder why we in Malaysia still do not have a body or an instituition for Project Management or for Project Managers? As far as I know and I could remember, we Malaysians have been doing thousands and billions ringgit of projects. How could this happened to us? Are we not concerned

Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400568.post-1053093630007974542003-05-16T22:00:00.000+08:002003-05-16T22:07:09.560+08:00

Oh good! It really works. Now, I can start writing about project management in Malaysia. As a start , I will do alone and later on invite a few others to chip in. To kick the ball rolling, I am posting a reply from ex-boss of a government department which was entrusted to manage and deliver billions ringgit projects a year: Beris Man: Sir, I would like to do a study of the project management

Berismannoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5400568.post-1053092598711948552003-05-16T21:43:00.000+08:002003-05-16T21:50:44.510+08:00

Hello, This is my first posting at this website.This is a trial posting to test how it works. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.In project management,it is the results that count? Not all will agree with that statement. That is the beauty of project management or any management at all. ..

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