Demystifying Quantitative Project Management |
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Software development faces lot of challenges in delivering on time, within budget and consistent product quality. The reason for these challenges could be that projects do not monitor and control effectively the performance of software life cycle and project management activities. They are not able to predict the project performance and proactively take actions to avoid the undesirable performance. Quantitative project management provides proactive insight into the operation of an organization based on data and statistical analysis. The objective here is to understand the past, control the present and predict the future. Additionally quantitative project management should help achieve the business objectives by monitoring the process and sub process performance. While there is no magic wand, it is a progressive approach to inculcate metrics based management culture, stabilize the process and improve the processes to make it more capable. |
The granularity at which projects are managed using metrics gives enough controls to meet the business objectives consistently. Also the success to which the ongoing process and technology improvements are aligned with metrics helps to improve organization capability and achieve sustainable competitive edge. “Demystifying Quantitative Project Management” attempts to understand basic measures and metrics, relationships between them and simple methodologies that can be used to interpret the data and manage the project more effectively. |
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Hariharan has over 18 years experience in core quality assurance and continuous process improvement activities consisting of both software and systems engineering. His functional role involves interpreting and implementing quality management system, confirming to quality concepts & quality models, carrying out metric analysis to drive process improvement. He also plays a leadership role in the institutionalization of quality culture in the organization. Hariharan has successfully lead Cognizant to achieve several process improvement milestones conforming to ISO 9001, ISO 2001, ISO 27001, TL9000, CMMI Maturity Level 5 and eSCM for all the development centers globallyHe has participated several times as Appraisal Team Member for CMM / CMMI based appraisal and has contributed significantly in identifying continuous process improvement opportunities. He has played a key role in repeatedly driving organizations to achieve high process maturity status complying with the requirements of ISO9001, Software CMM, CMM Integrated, People CMM, BS7799, eSCM, QS 9000, TQM and TPM. Hariharan is an SEI Authorized CMMI Instructor, Candidate SCAMPI Lead Appraiser and Six Sigma Black Belt. He has presented over 20 technical papers in various technical journals, international and national conferences. Hariharan has a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from Regional Engineering College in Durgapur, West Bengal, India, and a Master’s in Software Systems from the reputable Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India |
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