Changing Expectations from Project Managers |
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Managing IT projects has always been a challenging endeavour. More so in the current environment of escalating expectations on speed to market, rapidly changing business requirements and the ‘global context’ Today’s project managers need to understand the basics of the planning process. That planning is not just a list of activities but a means to control the future must be understood, and the techniques to plan effectively must be learnt. |
Project managers must also learn to accommodate scope creep. Scope creep is a reality. The answer to that is not containing it, but having flexible architecture and design to accommodate it. Modularization has been an age old dictum. It has reached newer heights in today’s SOA world. While its technical benefits are obvious; its leverage in project management activities to increase the speed to market is not. There has been a welcome trend in creating a track for technical specialists. This, however, does not absolve PMs of using technological accelerators. They can use code quality, design quality and defensive programming techniques to achieve ‘downskilling’. |
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Prof Amitava Banerjee is the faculty of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), SQC & OR Division. His primary responsibilities are teaching in the regular programmes and providing consultancy services to industries in the areas of application of quantitative techniques for improvement of quality and productivity. He has been working with ISI from 1982 onwards and has worked with a variety of industries in IT, ITES and the manufacturing sector. In the IT industry he has worked in the areas of design and code quality, estimation, project management, testing and defect control systems, risk management, management of Service Level Agreements as well as business analytics like analysis of attrition, pricing decisions and so on. He was with Infosys on sabbatical for two years from January 2005 to December 2006. In the teaching front, Prof. Amitava has taught software engineering and data structures. Apart from that he has also delivered several talks for SPIN Kolkata, Bangalore, Mumbai and has also taken several sessions for NASSCOM quality summits. He has worked closely with several IT industries like Novell, Patni, L&T, Robert Bosch etc. |
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