:AACE CERTIFICATION 2009-2010:

5 days in Gran Mahakam class really a starter point for me to get to know a new knowledge behind that big books (Engineering Economic, Big blue Humphreys and our AACE prep course text book). Getting to know each other is another challenge for me. To synchronize our goals, vision and mission is not a simple job. Especially in this team that we have so much in difference, but yet for Indonesian we have wise idiom, "University in diversity". No matter we have so much in different but from that we can gather strong will to achieves for our goals.

Who could ever though that this great team is full of great people to work with. Have a great sense of humour and good tactical thinking, what good recipe for team discussion. It is my great honour to know single person of you, as this is my learning process for "people management" but internationally not locally that I used to have in my days work. Synchronize the terminology is one process that simple but a good ways to maintain to use in this group discussion. I am enjoying of every debate just because we have different saying of certain thing but have similar meaning.

Back to my professional line, I have made a promise to implement this as quickly as it could. My biggest challenge is in my organization project management is not its core competency. Therefore it is hard for me to implement. Not all line managers aware of project management process and system. What it matters is deliver in quality and on time. Sometime the cost and budget can be estimated 1 school year before in order to match to my cost estimate, so I can estimate the buffer from previous projects. Which this is good to be topic for my paper. I have heard that sentences before yet until now I have not get any topic to choose because too many topics in my head. Too much choices equals confusions for me.

I wish someday that I will become a program manager to my organization, I will implement project management process 100%. I am feeling like a penguin in sahara desert. Either I am creating a big fridge or I have to get used to the sun. Yet, I am sure this project management is can implement to any business line around the world. My closest student is my wife. I teach her how to manage her clients and treating that every clients is projects that have objectives and timelines.

"Do not tell a lie to your customers!", when Dr PDG said that word, a blitz of thunder strike into my mind. This practice is rarely I heard in my nation. Sometime the customer is like a raw meat that every sales want to have a bite on. A customer should be a member of a project so we can share, discuss and get the feedback in order to match their expectation, not in other side of the table. Directly I sent short message to my wife, that what ever she do, do not saying yes constantly, before knowing the risk. Just like "YES MAN" movie, you cannot says YES all the time.

Well, this week really high performance for me. After leaving 5 days from my work. I am predicting that my desk will be full of documents and drawings that need to pass on. Yes, it really did. I have 50 centimeters documents that need to initials on. While this week I am also having additional working load from AACE. AND for 4 coming months, my department will have strategic planning for future enhance development, which I am will be involving. I have to give Gant chart and estimated cost, which I could have done it in couple of hours. But I do not know I am acting as Program or Project Manager?

Last but not least, I am still struggling and I will keep struggling to make good changes to my organization. To all my colleagues member, together we can do it. If you have any hesitation, BUZZ me in my gtalk, I am ready 24/7 to remind you why you have gone this far.

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