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Telecom Project Management: Naokhaiz Afaqui
Telecom Project Management: Naokhaiz Afaqui
Naokhaiz Afaqui
Naokhaiz.afaqui@waridtel.com
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• Fox, T.L. & Spence, J.W. 1998. Tools of the trade: A survey of project
management tools. Project Management Journal.
• #1 position that IT managers say they will need for contract help
End
User
PM
Project
Staff Executive
Mgt
The end user can be a residential consumer or it can be a huge multinational business using voice, data,
video and multimedia services in a business environment
Telecom Service provider industry includes the traditional telecommunications, which has typically been voice
service, with the addition many years ago of data service as well
Some vendors sell products in a single area while many sell products in multiple areas of telecom, maybe
having business lines with wireless, broadband and optical products. Some vendors are local or regional,
while many offer products nationally or internationally
At component manufacturer level, there will be a variety of projects specifically related to the development
and manufacturing processes
•In short, there is a need for Project Management Professionals at entry & managerial
levels who can handle end-to-end infrastructure in the following domains:
Project Managers are a fortunate lot, for, as everyone knows, a project manager
has nothing to do; that is, except...
To decide what is to be done;
to tell somebody to do it;
to listen to reasons why it should not be done,
why it should be done by somebody else,
or why it should be done in a different way;
And then:
And then:
•To follow up a second time to see if the thing has been done;
•to discover that it has been done incorrectly;
•to point out how it shall be done;
•to conclude that as long as it has been done it might as well be left as it is;
•to wonder if it is not time to get rid of the person who cannot do a thing correctly;
•to reflect that in all probability any successor would be just as bad, or worse.
And finally:
•To consider how much more simply and better the thing would have been done
had he done it himself in the first place;
•to reflect satisfactorily that if he had done it himself he would have been able to
do it right in 20 minutes
•and that as things turned out, he himself spent two days trying to find out why it is
that it has taken somebody else three weeks to do it wrong.
•To realise that such an idea would have a very demoralising effect on the project
team, because it would strike at the very foundation of the belief of all employees
that a project manager has nothing to do.