Collaborative Project Planning |
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Information technology and software projects and service delivery continues to evolve and mature as it encounters the newer and harder challenges each passing day. The ever increasing competition for business to save that one more dollar of cost has propelled the internet revolution and virtualization has wrought a new shape to the world as Tom Friedman described in his book, “The world is flat.” The dynamics of projects particularly the IT and Software developments have become more complicated than ever before and terms like global distributed delivery, global teaming, offshore, rightshore delivery are getting coined and invented almost regularly as potential strategies to address them. |
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From the SEI CMMi perspective it can be said that the standards are the glue that hold firmly the “people-process-technology” triad. Distributed delivery has added multiple dimensions to each of these “people” , “process” and “technology” which necessitated SEI to upgrade CMM to CMMi with “i” signifying integration. So which ever way we look at one thing that stands out as key is the importance of working in synergy with diverse set of people, technology and processes. Hence the undisputed new mantra of successful project management is collaboration — collaboration with all entities right from project conceptualization to transition. The key objective of any project is the satisfaction of the stakeholder needs. The needs start getting detailed out and taking shape in the initial phase of the project because the cost for the change is lowest in this phase of the project as evident from this picture. The initial or inception phase of any project is when most of the planning takes place and the actual delivery of the project depend on the perfection, accuracy and level of details in the planning. Hence it is quite logical that collaboration is most significant in the planning phase of a project. |
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Tarun has over 15 years of industry experience and is currently working as Senior Service Delivery Manager in Capgemini Consulting India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India. He has vast experience in Project and Program Delivery Management working for global client in US and Europe. He also has experience is application support and maintenances of critical business applications with stringent SLA on application availability with experience at onsite as well as offshore. Tarun has successfully managed the development and market roll out of projects mandated by regulatory changes for clients in Financial Services and Energy and Utilities industry. Tarun always has passion to learn and upgrade himself. Besides being certified as PMP and ITIL, Tarun also is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA). He also has vast experience in project estimation using IFPUG Function Point methodology. Tarun is connoisseur of processes and passionate on contributing towards enrichment of processes and design products that ensures compliance to process and standards. He has experience as an Internal Auditor for ISO- CMM audits and also as SEPG member. Tarun is an Engineering graduate and has Diploma in Business Finance (DBF) |
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