SIMPLY PROJECTS

Opps Sikap as a project

The recent Opps Sikap XX has ended and we have seen nothing of significant in the nobel efforts to reduce accidents and deaths on our Malaysian roads especially during festival times.The amount of money,time and efforts were quite a significant over the last few years and yet the results showed no improvement.I just wonder why???

My first question begins with: Are we doing the right things?

And the second question: Are we doing them right?

The above are two basic questions that sometimes got lost in many of our national campaigns.

From my humble and little knowledge in change  management, these issues of careless and reckless driving need a CHANGE MANAGEMENT approach and NOT a monitoring and control approach as I have seen in the activities of the Opps Sikap so far.I suggest the authority to look into this matter as a change process and manage this as annual project with specific deliverables,milestones and KPI's.The performance reviews should be done every quarter and not at every Hari Raya.

No excused at all

This is a sheer neglect on my side about this blog.It should be updated at least once a week but I failed miserably when I got involved in cycling.It is for my professional interests as well in the interest of my business and personal social responsibility to share information and knowledge with fellow readers in the field of project management.By the way,it is easier to write about my cycling,photography,sketching hobbies than my passion for project management,not to mention my latest involvement in facilities management.When it comes to construction projects,facilities managemnet is the other half that may take 25 to 50 years after the project is completed and ready for use.Research indicated that the cost of physical assets acquisition is about 34 % of the total life cost.

In the late 80's,I invited time management expert to teach my managers on how to use Time Management system in their work.When PDA came to my life in late 90's,I left the good pen and paper time management system  behind and now,after reading about Autofocus system by Mark Forster,I am going back to pen and papers.Now, I know the strenghts and weaknesses of both systems.

InsyaAllah,I will try to blog here more on matters relating to the management of projects,facilities and time.