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PM Footprints 2007 Calendar
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The PM Footprints calendar is as follows.

 

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Date

Topic

Presenter

27th Dec 07

The art and science of project management

Mr. Ravindraprasad Elicherla
Development Manager
Tesco HSC

13th Dec 07

Steering Project Success

Mr. Mohan Srinivasan
Entrepreneur, leading an independent Business Consulting firm
Nth Dimenzion
6th Dec 07

Taking Risks

Mr. Ramakrishnan Lakshminarayana
Vice President
Operational Excellence Group
Sasken Communications
29th Nov 07

Strategic Portfolio Management

Mr. Kuldeep Singh
Technical Account Manager & Security Ambassador APAC
Sun Microsystems India
15th Nov 07

Programme Management challenges in development of modern fighter aircrafts

Mr. Rajeev Srivastava
Deputy Project Director
Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA)

1st Anniversary

PMI Bangalore India Chapter takes great pleasure in celebrating the first anniversary of "PM Footprints" on Thursday, 18th October 2007.

On this occasion, all the speakers who participated in the year long Footprint sessions are invited to honor them in recognition of their contributions. This event will be marked by the launch of first PM Footprint Journal. To commemorate this celebration, special guest lectures by eminent speakers from academia are arranged.

Prof. Sadagopan
Founder Director
IIIT-Bangalore

Prof. Sadagopan is the founder Director of the Institute from September 1999. He has taught at two premier educational Institutes in India, namely, the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, (IITK) during 1980 - 1995 and the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, (IIMB) during 1995-1999. He obtained his undergraduate engineering degree from Madras University and his Master's and Doctoral degrees from Purdue University, USA. He is a Fellow of the IEE, UK, Computer Society of India and the Institution of Engineers (India).

Prof. K B Akhilesh
India Institute of Science

Research Area: Knowledge management model for teams in the IT sector , Quality management and change model , Virtual Teams in global R&D organizations, Recruitment and assessment, HR global Bench Marking, Expertise Transfer.


Mr. Shankar Venkatagiri
Assistant Professor, Quantitative Methods & Information Systems
Indian Institute of Management

Holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, masters degrees from U.Southern California and IIT, Kharagpur.Has worked in the US software industry for six years in various roles: solutions architect, solutions engineer and lead developer at Reuters Consulting, Curl Corporation and Sapient Corporation.

Venue : Hotel Woodlands, Raja ram Mohan Roy road, Bangalore

Date : Thursday 18th Oct 2007

Time : 6:00 pm to 8:00pm followed by fellowship dinner.
4th Oct 07

Best Practices in people management in IT Industry

 

Mr. Sujit Mishra, PMP
Delivery manager
Dell
20th Sep 07 Does “One Size Fit All” paradigm suits Project Management Practitioners?

Mr. Manish Chandra, PMP
Senior Consultant - PMCoE
Infosys Technologies Limited
Bangalore
6th Sep 07 Today’s Reality in Project Management – SOX, Governance & Global Teams

 

Mr. Tamal Dutta Chowdhury, PMP
COP, Practice Manager
Unisys

Bangalore

23rd August 07 HR (Assets) Management in Projects. A closer look... A bigger impact... Mr. Srinivasa Ravi Kumar Kalluri
Solution Project Manager - FMS Europe Deployment, IBM India
Bangalore
09th August 07 Experiences in running a PMO for key accounts. Mrs. Shoba Ramesh
PM Consultant & Corporate Trainer
26th July 07 Learnings from a 24/7 production support project – fortune 10 Mr. SK Mishra
Vice President - Quality
Infinite Computer Solutions
12th July 07 Management of Feature-driven Agile Projects through an Integrated, Collaborative Toolset. Mr. Sai Krupa Sagar
Principal Architect
Cognizant Technology Solutions.
28th June 07 Project Management methodology: Rational Unified Process (RUP) as example Mr. Dinesh Pratap Singh , PMP
Team Leader,
Hewlett - Packard,
IPG, HSSL Bangalore.
14th June 07 Leadership, Project Management and Self Deception
Mr. Senthiyl S S G
Managing Director
Arbinger Institute Pte Ltd,
South East Asia.
31st May 07 Reliability & Quality Assurance for spacecraft projects – A managerial perspective Mr. Prakasha Rao .P.J.V.K.S
ISRO, Bangalore

17th May 07

Software Test Project Management - Suggested Improvements

Mr. Ajikumar TN
Senior Manager
Testing Services Division
Wipro Technologies Bangalore.

3rd May 07

Project Management Through Earned Value Management

Mr. V D SHAM DAYAL, PMP

Project Manager, Mphasis BFL Ltd.

19th Apr 07

Managing Global Outsourcing: Process to Integrate Culture, Business and Technology

Mr. Murali S. Iyer,
Director, SpiderLogic

05th Apr 07

PMO and Portfolio Management
 

Mr.Ravinder Pal Singh, PMP
Project Manager – IT
Cisco Systems (I) Pvt Ltd

22nd Mar 07

Selecting an Enterprise Project Management (EPM) tool for a project based organization

Mr. Sandeep Kochhar,
Alumnus IIM-B, IIM-K

08th Mar 07

Spacecraft Project Management

Mr. N.Neelakantan, Project Director, Eutelsat-W2M Spacecraft Project, ISRO Satellite Center, Department Of Space, Bangalore

22nd Feb 07

Application of Home Management best practices to Project Management –an analysis

Mrs. Hamsa Ravi Kiran, PMP
Free Lancer, Home Manager

15th Feb 07

Software Products Usage risk identification for Communication Service Providers

Mr. Senthil Kumar Ramachandran, PMP, Program Manager, Hewlett Packard - Global India Delivery Centre

25th Jan 07

Critical Chain Project Management, complementing the PMBOK Processes

Mr. Rajasekhar R Nandyala, BE, MBA, PMP
Proventures India

11th Jan 07

A product development methodology using agile concepts

Mr. Murali Manohar Setlur, PMP
MphasiS BFL Limited

 

Footprints Archives

Click here to see a list of 2006 PM Footprints program archive

Program:

PM Footprints - Experience & Knowledge sharing forum

Venue:

Central Park Hotel, 47/1, Manipal Center, Dickenson Road, Bangalore.

Time:

6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. (Every alternate Thursday)

Fees:

Rs. 200/- (50% discount for PMI Bangalore chapter members)

PDU:

1 PDU (Professional Development Unit)

The program content will comprise of a speech / presentation on contemporary PM topics of interest across industry. The program presentation will be for about an hour followed with interactions and knowledge sharing amongst fellow PM community. The program will provide great opportunity for both the people desirous of presenting their works / papers to share their learning and thoughts and also for the participants.

This program is being planned to be conducted every alternate week on a fixed day of the week, fixed time and fixed venue. All participants and presenters will be entitled for 1 PDU per program and they can claim the same using the registered number for the program given by PMI Bangalore Chapter provided they satisfy the criteria to attend the program completely. As per PMI norms, an attendance register will be maintained at the venue to record the details of the participants.

The fee for the PM Footprints is Rs.200 to be paid at the venue by cash. 50% discount for current PMI Bangalore Chapter Members. (Proof of valid membership number to be produced on request to avail discount). Light refreshments will be provided at the venue.

Seats for the programs are first cum first serve basis and we recommend you to call up PMI Bangalore Chapter Office, Mr. Sathyamurthy at 22370400 or 9886814


078.and confirm your attendance in advance to help us plan for the seats etc.

 

06th Feb 2008 Engineering Development of Combat Aircraft: Programme Management Challenges & Work Through

Presenter:

Sqn. Ldr. (Retd) B C Srikanta
Scientist/Engineer ‘G’ (Retd.)
Project Director (Programme Management)
Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA)

 

 

 

Sqadron Leader (Retd.) B.C. Srikanta holds a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Mysore, and has been trained in Aeronautical Engineering Course & Systems Management Course at IAF. He is a fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India), Member of the The Aeronautical Society of India (AeSI), Life Member of Programme Management Associates (PMA) and Life Member of United Service Institution (USI) of India.

He was working as Scientist/Engineer ‘G’ in Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA), Bangalore. He was responsible for coordinating the management of prestigious ‘Tejas’ Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Program of India. He joined LCA Design & Development Team of ADA in 1986 and has 35 years of aeronautics experience. Prior to joining ADA, he served as a Commissioned Officer of India Air Force (IAF) and gained vast experience in maintenance of military combat aircraft as well as in training of aircraft maintenance personnel.

Details:

Program Management and Project Management are treated as synonyms in some application areas. Project Management is considered a subset of Program Management in aircraft Development Program and organizational approach is invariably through management by Projects, treating many aspects of development as Projects. In order to be successful, Combat aircraft Program Management process has to continuously address different aspects of Program like factoring unique requirements of Defense Services, assignment of responsibilities, changing actions as Program moves through different development phases, scheduling, budgeting, etc,. Effectiveness of planning and implementing Program Management processes dictate success or failure.

 

Although a late entrant in the field of aeronautics Research & Development (R&D), India took the calculated risk of forging ahead with the formidable indigenous Design & Development Program of Combat Aircraft with the objective of becoming a dominant player in aeronautics. A virtual Program Management Organization, with an autonomous organizational structure and a committed professional team, was commissioned to face technological & managerial challenges. Its mandate was to network all aeronautical institutions spread across the country, to bring people & organizations together, to work as a cohesive body with project focus, to accelerate decision-making process, to usher fast track procedures and to derive benefits to the Program within a meaningful time frame.

 

Combat aircraft is a high technology, complex engineering system having close inter-dependencies amongst various systems/sub-systems of the aircraft. Long gestation period and expensive R&D investments are associated with De-novo development of a combat aircraft. Program Management challenge was in planning and exercising effective control over development strategy changes, resource mobilization, user requirement changes, mid-course design iterations, obsolescence management, cost over-run, time over-run and risk factors arising due to extraneous circumstances. Indigenous combat aircraft development success is attributed to innovative implementation of traditional Program Management concepts.


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21st Feb 2008 Spirituality and Project management

Presenter:

Ms. Rekha Anil, BE, PMP, Prince 2
Program Manager
Honeywell Technology Solutions

 



  • Project Management Professional, PMP
  • Prince 2 certified practitioner (UK Government standard for IT project management)
  • Six Sigma Green belt certified

 

Rekha Anil, PMP, has been in industry for 17 years and has vast experience in program management with demonstrated and proven track record of achievements in her field of work.

At present She is working with Honeywell Technologies Solutions as Program Manager. She was involved in managing multi disciplinary programs involving cross functional and global teams. Now she is part of Business and operation excellence team.

Apart from program management, she was extensively involved in customized Project management Competency development program in organization. 
Details:

Feeling stressed out, worn out……???

 

Take a minute to completely absorb yourself in the present moment. Read on……

 

Is there a way to alleviate the stress out of day to day grind?

 

Is there a better way to make sense out of situations in the projects?

 

Is there way to enjoy and have fun while you move on the journey of the projects?

 

Can one detach without disengaging ourselves from projects?

 

A number of theories on human motivation, personal competencies and techniques are defined and documented.  However the key is to take a step back and understand the bigger picture. Detach and rejoice to bring the best out of the people and the situation, in order to have a successful journey of the project without hang ups. 

 

The secret is to go beyond and unfold……., when this happens we enjoy the project journey in fullness, both in ourselves and in others


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07th Feb 2008 Quantitative Risk Profiling

Presenter:

Mr. Amrut Mohanty, PMP
Group Project Manager (Corporate Role)
Infosys


  • Currently working in Infosys in a CORPORATE role as a Group Project Manager
  • Over 16 years of IT experience in Delivery Management, Program Management , Client Relationship Management and Team Leadership at offshore and abroad
  • Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

 

Details:

Quantitative Risk Profiling process has changed the organizational approach of risk identification from reactive to proactive. The purpose is to identify the risk, quantify the risk, catagorize it in the proposal and contract stage. Our study says that most of the big ticket risks actually originates well in dvance in the lifecycle of the project. It was validated with lots of real data along with a cross functional team and all stake holders of a project. This new concept has been deployed organization wide to provide visibility at the proposal stage to mitigate the potential risks early on in the projects. Units are now enabled with organization wide standardized process, as a result of which the number of high/critical risk projects identified late in the life cycle has been considerably reduced.


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24th Jan 2008 Leadership in Project Management

Presenter:

Mr. Prakasha MS
PMP, Managing Principal
Oracle Solution Services

 

Has over 25 years of experience in Global organizations like Oracle, HCL Perot, Alstom,  Bharat Electronics ltd.

Experience covers IT Consulting industry, Electronics systems and Telecommunication systems Industry.

Areas worked includes Business development, Forecasting models, Pricing models, Strategy planning and implementation, Business consulting, Product Development, Program Management and Process models.

Current Position is Managing Principal at Oracle SSI located at Banagalore/India.

Expertise in conceptualizing, defining process models and frameworks, experienced in bringing models in to reality.
Details:

Leadership is subject widely discussed, researched and taught, it has wide influence on human performance. Despite of all the importance the subject remains a black box, its inner workings and specific dimensions can not be easily understood.  We often confronted with leadership issues in our work place, home, society, public places.

Qualities like integrity, honesty, enthusiasm, and ability to communicate are needed in a leader. Once these qualities are consistently demonstrated the subordinates automatically respect the individual and he is recognized as leader. Some argue that there is no way of training people to become leaders, however the statement

‘Leaders become leaders because they decided to become leaders’

opens up a way of training one to become leader; inspire individual to become leader.

Project Management in it’s classic definition is applying knowledge, skills, tools and techniques in activities of accomplishing tasks, which add up to become the project. Invariably balance need to be maintained between cost, time and quality, the stakeholders need to be managed to possible level of satisfaction.

Project Manager will be more empowered, will be more successful if he is inspired to become a leader and apply the leadership concepts in project management. The organization adapting leadership approach in Project Management will go a long way in improving the environment, community in which they operate and thereby making a big impact on the world and the way we live. 


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10th Jan 2008 An Introduction to Critical Chain

Presenter:

Mr. Srikant
Sr. Manager, Program Management
Sapient
 

Srikanth is a Sr. Manager, Program Management in Sapient. He joined Sapient in March 2003 and has since worked on several projects that encompass the complete software development lifecycle. Srikanth has valuable experience in managing and delivering projects from India and liaising / building relationships with onshore clients, ensuring the quality of delivery, mentoring the team. he has managed medium and large teams in India.
Srikanth has managed projects across numerous domains. He has managed projects in healthcare, energy trading and risk management and travel and hospitality industries.
Srikanth has a total of 13 years relevant IT experience. Before joining Sapient, Srikanth mainly worked on managing and developing web applications. He has also worked in the multimedia and e-learning industry for a sizeable amount of time. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree, majoring in Computer Science from Bangalore University, India.

Details: I am sure everybody reading this article has faced problems whilst managing their project or program. If you ask your neighbor or your colleague, in all probability he / she will concur that managing projects is not an easy task.

Have you ever introspected and compared notes with your neighbor about the problems you have had with your projects? Please take a moment to introspect and then answer the following questions:
- Do you see a trend with respect to the problems or do you see that every project having a completely different set of problems?
- What were the problems that you identified?
- What were the solutions / mitigation strategies that you identified to help solve these problems?

You will be surprised when you compare notes and list of problems and the solutions that was implemented. They look very similar!

According to a study conducted in 2003
- An amazing 30% of IT projects fail.
- Now if you are an extremely optimistic person you might conclude the good news is that 70% of these projects succeed. But many of the 70% of the “successful” projects were over budget, over time, or defective in function upon completion.


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27th Dec 2007 The art and science of project management

Presenter:

Mr. Ravindraprasad Elicherla
Development Manager
Tesco HSC




Ravindra Prasad is working as Development Manager at Tesco HSC. He has total 9 years 6 months of experience in IT in which 3.5 years are in project management. He has experience in different projects that span across production support, maintenance and application development areas. Before joining Tesco he worked with Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys. His stint at international locations Brazil, USA and Australia helped him gaining knowledge in different ways of knowledge transfer and project delivery. Other than project management, he actively participates and contributes to Knowledge management, competency development and CSR activities. He is member of PMI and KM forum. Painting is his hobby (www.ravindraprasad.net) and his new interest is web 2.0. He did his M.Tech in Production Engineering from Sri Venkateswara University and recently completed Retail Certification from IIM-B and Tesco.

Details:

Take great care of your people, they'll take great care of your customers, and your customers will come back and back and back. – Bill Mariott.

Who is first? People or Customers? Project Managers use people to deliver projects or services to customers. Project Manager’s project management capability is measured in scientific ways using mathematical formulas in relation to quality, cost and time. But there is also other side of project management which is people management and is difficult to measure. Most project managers agree people management is very difficult, very challenging but in reality it is also rewarding experience when we see people growing in their careers.

People management is an art because every person carries within him or her self patterns of thinking, feeling and every person is different. Project Manager’s success depends on how effectively team of different individuals is mobilized to the common project goal. It is more challenging in the offshore information technology industry we have in India as people have plenty of opportunities to choose from. Irrespective of soaring attrition levels, project manager need to satisfy all the stakeholders with available people.

The objective of this presentation is to discuss best practices and models that can be followed by project manager as people manager. Though the presentation is limited to Indian Information Technology scenario, these practices can be used in other industries as well. By following relevant aspects in this presentation, organizations would benefit tremendously with highly motivated people and successful project deliveries.


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13th Dec 2007 Steering Project Success

Presenter:

Mr. Mohan Srinivasan
Entrepreneur, leading an independent Business Consulting firm
Nth Dimenzion

 

Mohan Srinivasan is an entrepreneur, leading an independent Business Consulting firm based out of Bangalore – Nth Dimenzion. Before venturing on his own, Mohan headed the Business Consulting division at Satyam, dealing with the entire value chain viz. Supply Chain management, Product Lifecycle management , Supplier relationship management, Process Consulting , Quality Consulting and Customer Relationship management.
 
Cumulatively, he has around 20 years of work experience in IT services and manufacturing industries with companies like HAL, Kirloskar and Satyam. His focus has been on practice building, consulting and operations management. He is an alumnus of IIM-Ahmedabad and IIT-Chennai. He is an ardent exponent of TOC-Theory of constraints propounded by Dr. Goldratt

Details: In these times of great opportunities, project stakeholders are challenged with the need to be more responsive to changes, uncertainties and vulnerabilities in the environment. This paradigm change demands that project teams learn to think like entrepreneurs and leaders.
 
Steering Project Success addresses this evolving dimension of project management and presents an innovative approach to manage project challenges. It complements and supplements the current body of knowledge and best practices in project management.
 
The concept of steering projects successfully by practicing Seven Mantras as the key to delighting all stakeholders has been presented in a very lucid manner. The topics and about 100 illustrations bring out the insights of ace project managers, who have experienced project managers, who have experienced project challenges at the ground level.


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6th Dec 2007 Taking Risks

Presenter:

Mr. Ramakrishnan Lakshminarayana
Vice President
Operational Excellence Group
Sasken Communications

 

Ramakrishnan has over 25 years of experience in the IT industry, managing organizations delivering software products and solutions to global customers. As a Vice President, he currently heads the Operational Excellence Group at Sasken Communications. Earlier Ramakrishnan has taken on leadership roles at Mascon Global Ltd and PSI Data Systems in India; Citadel Investments, Reuters, McDonalds Corp among others in the USA and has been a key player in both technical and managerial functions. Ramakrishnan holds a Master of Project Management from Keller Graduate School, Chicago and Master of Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Details: Risk Management is a key component of managing projects. Literature and training relating to Project Management do emphasize risk management; however most view risks as to be “minimized” and “mitigated”. This presentation titled “Taking Risks” takes a fresh look at risks as inherent in all walks of life; how decisions we make are more often a matter of evaluating risks. Exploring further, the presentation attempts to show how risks can be welcomed, and taken head-on to reap rewards in projects. A model is developed to show how project execution can be tracked using measures based on risk. While “Taking Risks” is based upon IT industry experience, the concepts are applicable to any industry or domain.


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29th Nov 2007 Strategic Portfolio Management

Presenter:

Mr. Kuldeep Singh
Technical Account Manager & Security Ambassador APAC
Sun Microsystems India


Kuldeep Singh is presently the Technical Account Manager & Security Ambassador APAC at Sun Microsystems India.
He is responsible to support the Account Manager in the Region and evangelizing on Sun Technologies & a vision for information security strategy and architecture,working with teams across different location in the Region .


He has Sound experience in Information Technology & project management,ITIL (Service Delivery ),business development, Consulting & client solutions.


Program management with extensive experience in project planning, cost and schedule management, requirements analysis, Product Life Cycle (PLC) management,SDLC, project management infrastructure development, IT life-cycle
development process , and budgeting process, project leadership and best practices, project diagnosis and recovery,
project management training and group facilitation.

 

Kuldeep Singh's Specialises with:

  • Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Certified Information Technology Information Library(ITIL) –Service Delivery
  • Cisco Secure VPN Specialist(CSVPN)
  • Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Specialist (CSPFA)
  • Securing Cisco IOS Networks (SECUR)
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
  • Six Sigma Methodology & Tools
  • People management
Details: Project Management helps ensure that projects are done right. Strategic Portfolio Management determines the very future of the enterprise; its competitiveness, and ultimately, its survival. Strategic Portfolio Management is a closed-loop process encompassing all enterprise investments.Strategic Portfolio Management can be a vehicle for transformation and breakthrough. Breakthroughs typically result from largescale, long-term initiatives that use advanced technologies and radical process innovations to achieve leaps in operating performance, financial results, and market position. Enterprise project management (EPM) capability is an essential component of Strategic Portfolio Management.


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15th Nov 2007 Programme Management challenges in development of modern fighter aircrafts

Presenter:

Mr. Rajeev Srivastava
Deputy Project Director
Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA)


Rajeev Srivastava is working as the Deputy Project Director (Programme Management-MCA) with Aeronautical Development Agency, which is headquartered at Bangalore. His responsibilities at ADA have included Programme Management of the Air Force variant (Tejas) and naval variant of the Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) and the next generation fighter aircraft.

Starting his professional career as the first Graduate Engineer Trainee of Tata Davy Limited at the Tata Iron & Steel Company Ltd. (TISCO), Jamshedpur, he has handled projects right from the first day of his professional career, and has 19+ years of rich & diversified work-experience in execution and management of engineering and software projects.

He is guest-speaker/guest-faculty in seminars/workshops/training programmes on Project/Programme Management at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) [since 1999 which covers all knowledge-areas of Project Management], 92nd Indian Science Congress, Ahmedabad (2005), HAL Management Academy, Bangalore, Institute of Technology Management, Mussoorie (Uttaranchal), Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi (Jharkhand), Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore, Institution of Standards Engineers, Bangalore, Broadcom India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, BAe-HAL Software