Target Audience: Product Managers, Project Managers, Individuals with higher than normal Openness to Experience. This is a post on how to build products, but as all groundbreaking historical moments, it must begin with a story. …

من يعرفني أكثر من شهر من الزمن ربما بلغه بعضاً من شغفي (المزعج أحيانا) عن التعليم والتعليم الالكتروني بالتحديد، وربما سمع عن مشروع أسسته مع أروع كوكبة من المهندسين في العالم العربي، بل وربما في العالم اجمع. لمن لا يعرف نسختي من قصة إنتاجي، فلقد فاتته وانتهت مرحلة مهمة منها…

كيف نخلق انظمة ومنصات واقعية لاثراء المحتوى الرقمي العربي بشكل مستدام — لطالما سمعت عن المشكلة الحقيقية التي تواجه العرب (أو المتحدثين باللغة العربية) لمن لديه حساسية تجاه المعاني القومية للكلمة. …

Research, Research, and Research — This is the first post in a series I’ve decided to create to document the chronicles of the lessons I hope to learn over the next couple of months as I embark on creating (within the village of supporters I work with) a content based business in the Gulf Cooperation…

Learning to measure performance is more important than learning to perform — I had a challenge recently at work where I came to conclusion the endless hours I had invested over the past 18 months might have actually turned out to not only be a waste of time, but a sign of my incompetence. So I set out one weekend, asking permission…

Every journey should start with a clear beginning, and a clear destination — I remember delivering a course over a 3 week period to a group of programmers in the Middle East. The topic was hard, the lab exercises challenging but being the amazing trainer I believe myself to be it would be a breeze. But as days passed I noticed fatigue signs…

Why it’s so terrifying to train the vets — How old you look is a very tricky ‘tell’ in the training industry. You don’t believe me? Well try walking into a room where you’re the youngest there expected to deliver training on a technology every else is a veteran in. Yeah, it’s scarier than it sounds. I can say…

Training English Content to Non-English Speakers — “The first pillar of Object Oriented Programming is Encapsulation” is what I decided to start my session on programming with C#.NET, a Microsoft developed programming language to a group of Arabic speaking trainees…Their reaction, wasn't understanding. To the majority of the English speaking population of the planet that first sentence…