….on this blog at least. I started this off with the intention of writing my experiences in Project and Program Management. And as the readers of the blogs would have noticed, most of my postings are related to Spirituality and Meditation. I deliberately stopped posting anything relating to PM since I did not want any [...]
Archive for the ‘Project Management’ Category
The Demise of Project Management
Posted in Project Management on August 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Methodology
Posted in Project Management on June 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I have been a passionate reader and implementor of methodologies right from James Martin’s Information Engineering to Tom De Marco’ SSAD to James Rumbaugh’ OMT to RUP. I also made a modest contribution to Accenture’s ADS during my tenure with them. When I first came across FDD a few years back, I really liked it [...]
Story Telling and PM
Posted in Project Management on May 19, 2005 | 1 Comment »
[From ASK overview]NASA Academy of Program and Project Leadership (APPL) publishes a magazine called ASK, which is available for online viewing. The ASK Magazine grew out of APPL’s Knowledge Sharing Initiative. The stories that appear in ASK are written by the ‘best of the best’ project managers, primarily from NASA, but also from other government [...]
Offshoring, exciting and new. Come aboard, we’re expecting you.
Posted in Project Management on April 7, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Talk about offshoring … Roger Green and David Cook, two San Diego tech execs are taking the term literally. The two plan to purchase a secondhand cruise ship, populate it with 600 of the brightest engineers they can find, and then park them all in international waters three miles off the coast of El Segundo, [...]
KM @ Infy
Posted in Project Management on March 28, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
V.P. Kochikar, KM Head, Education & Research Department, Infosys Technologies, says "KM helps us stay on top of new software projects, emerging technologies and customer satisfaction" I take every media interview especially when it comes from an IT organization, with a large grain of salt, but some of the things Kochikar talks in this interview [...]
Turd Polishing
Posted in Project Management on March 16, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
The latest issue of The Rational Edge has an interesting article on Software Management. Managing software projects successfully has proven to be very failure prone when using the traditional engineering management discipline. Comparing the challenge of software management to that of producing a major motion picture exposes some interesting perspectives. Both management problems are concerned [...]
Forced Ranking – II
Posted in Project Management on March 15, 2005 | 1 Comment »
841,500 is the number of software professionals according to an estimate in the IT industry in India. Assuming most of the IT companies follow the forced ranking that I talked about in my previous post, the question that I have is….where does that leave the 42,075 employees who fall under the bottom 5%? 42,075! That [...]
Forced Rankings
Posted in Project Management on March 14, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Johana Rothman maintains two must read blogs – Managing Product Development and Hiring Technical People. I have been following her blog for more than a year now. In her latest post she comments on a paper published in Workforce Management on Forced Ranking. If you force rank — even once — the people who find [...]
Paradox for Knowledge Workers
Posted in Project Management on March 4, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
[Via Sadagopan] Paul Allen writing in Connect Mag says: The paradox for knowledge workers is this: the more time you spend in gaining knowledge, the less time you have to apply it. The reverse is also true. We must strike a proper balance between learning and doing. Most people have their nose to the grindstone. [...]
Software Development and Movie Making
Posted in Project Management on March 4, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Way back in early 90′s, my brother and I were having a conversation around the theme as to how software development was more closer to making a movie. For some reason, this conversation stayed in my mind and I distinctly remember that it was right after a TV show featuring Subhash Ghai where he talked [...]
