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?

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 I was waiting to buy book at Kinokuniya, I met the chairman of one government agency. He told me that he has instructed his agency to improve project management system since three years ago ,but nothing happened. I told him that his people just do not know how to go about doing that. Plain ignorant.Period.

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 about the standard of project management and the quality of our project managers?

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 practice in your ex -organisation?
Ex- boss: Don't bother!
Beris Man: why?
Ex-boss: There was no such thing!
Beris Man: Then what the thousands of people doing there for years?
Ex-boss: Everything else except project management.

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. ..