About me...

My name is Mohd Azzizat Bin Abdul Rahman. I am a Malaysian. I was born in Hospital Besar Kuala Lumpur (HBKL) on 13 April 1987 but I stayed in Selangor specifically in Gombak. My father’s name is Abdul Rahman Bin Mohd Noor and my mother’s name is Nafisah Binti Ramli. They both are pensioner. In my family, I am the youngest one. I have seven siblings consists of two sisters and five brothers including me. As usual everyone has their own personal interest. For me my personal interest is more to sports. I like sports and the most sports that I like are football, handball and futsal. So, I can say that I am a sportsman. Besides that, I love to do business and also travel.

Educational and career goals

Early year 1992, I already went to primary school. Why is that happened is because when I was five years old, I did not go to kindergarten. I followed my mom to a primary school named Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Gombak 2 because my mom is a teacher during that time. From a five years old kid to twelve years old boy, I finished my primary school in SRK Gombak 2 with an excellent result in UPSR.
After finish study in primary school, I further my study in Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Sungai Pusu also known as Sekolah Menengah Bestari Gombak. I finish my secondary school in year 2004 with a good result in Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia.

After that, Alhamdulillah, I continue my study in Matriculation Centre of International Islamic University of Malaysia (MCIIUM) currently known as Centre for Foundation Studies (CENFOS) for a one and half years taking Information and Communication Technology programme. On July 2006, I transferred from MCIIUM to main campus of IIUM in Gombak with proud and happy feelings. Only God knows how i feel.

Why I choose IIUM? The first thing that I choose IIUM is because the university provides an Islamic environment. The university emphasizes Islamic teaching for their students to learn. Furthermore, the title of international university level that the university had makes me eager to join the IIUM community. Now I'm taking Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS). Why I choose BCS? This is because in my secondary school, I already learnt about IT stuff. So, I like to continue about it.

Now, I’m 3^rd year student in IIUM. What I found that I have a lot of strengths. As I mentioned earlier, I have strength in sports. Basically I can play any kind of sports. Besides that, I found that I’m good to be a leader. Most of leader’s characteristics I have it and the most important is the leadership skills. Alhamdulillah God gave it to me. It makes me easy to communicate and cooperates with other people. Therefore, I can have lots of friends. However, there is some problem that I cannot solve until now. It is my weakness. I have problem with my English. My English is not very well. I know English and I can speak in English but maybe because I’m afraid to use it, it becomes my problem until now. Due to this problem, now I always try to speak in English with my friends. Even my English is bad, got grammatical error here and there, I just bear it. What is the important now, I’m not afraid to communicate in English.

Now let talks about my career goals. For your information, I like to do business. Therefore, in the future I want to be a success Islamic businessman. How to achieve it? Since my 1^st year in IIUM, I already done some small business and until now I’m still do it. I do business in Islamic ways. There is ‘akad’ in the business transaction means there is a person who sell and a person who buy the thing. In fact, I’m always avoiding bribery since it is ‘haram’ in Islam. Hopefully in the future, I will be a successful Islamic businessman. Ameen~

IT Project Management Tips

There is lots of IT Project Management tips I have learnt in class. From what I have learnt, I like to share with you all some of the tips. It is about tips to have better communication with Project Stakeholder Management. For your information, Project managers spend 80% to 90% of their time communicating. So we need to actively manage communication with the various project stakeholders.

There are four different strategies for the different groups of stakeholders. We need to know what is it and what it does. Below is some information about it:

• Key Players - Manage them closely and keep them fully engaged
• Important Stakeholders - Keep them satisfied. Don’t burden them with too much detail
• Affected Stakeholders - Keep them informed. Communicate regularly to check that no major issues are appearing
• Other Stakeholders - Monitor them. Communicate, but do not bother them with too much information

Further than this, we need to spend time and effort to improve our own communication skills in these important areas:

• Written and oral (involving verbal and non-verbal communications skills)

Venues for communication:

• Internal- with the project team and organisation
• External- with the customer, the media, the public

Types of communication:

• Formal - Reports, meetings
• Informal - emails, conversations
• Vertical - within the organisation and functional group (for example engineering, sales, finance)
• Horizontal - with peers and other groups within the organisation

Hopefully these tips will help you in communicate with Project Stakeholders Management.

The Benefits of Learning IT Project Management

• We can understand the growing need for better project management, especially for information technology projects.
• We can know the role of the project manager by describing what project managers do, what skills they need, and what the career field is like for IT projects managers.
• We can know what are the IT project software tools and describe how software can assist in creating an IT project.