TechPM

Persuading people

2008-09-29T19:53:00.001+05:30

After long time I found something to write on this blog. :)While I have now kind of moved to full time management, it is essential that I persuade people about my propositions and convince them that they are good for them. Till now my motto is and will be to be as genuine in your intentions as possible. Be very true to yourself and to the person you are interacting with. This is the soul of

Developing WBS - Effort vs Result

2008-04-26T06:01:00.001+05:30

When we start working at a project we are very focused on the process that we follow. For most of IT projects following waterfall model, phases of the project are quite the same. Requirements, Design, Development, System Testing, Acceptance. Even in large projects, we have a time sequence in forms of iterations, phases and within each phase we follow similar patterns. Estimations are done before

Resource Management - a TODO list

2008-04-04T00:54:00.003+05:30

Quite some time back, I had listed various aspects of resource management on project. This was really in bulleted list format. But even in this form it is quite usable. Here it is: Aspects of Resource planning & management - People Management - Key areas · Individual goals · Work time

Follow up on competency

2008-03-17T20:10:00.001+05:30

My colleague Deepak Sharma wrote two good follow up articles on competency building. The one I liked most was the can do/ will do analysis of team members. To quote from the blog Here “Can do” refers to employee’s qualification to do the job and “Will do” refers to employee’s motivation to perform. The results are four

Thoughts on building technical competency

2008-03-02T19:21:00.001+05:30

Often we are faced with challenge of building competency in our organization. These competencies are required at all levels. I will be writing more about IT industry here as I belong to this industry. Last year, we started an initiative to build competency for our group. I had few ideas about developing competencies in areas of programming and designing. Our managers also were facing these

Anatomy of a personalized web portal - Part 1

2008-02-19T22:53:00.001+05:30

My team is currently working on a personalized portal for a large technology company. We worked on the complete design of the site on top of a proprietary content delivery platform. Although the content delivery is already take care of, a lot of stuff was remaining in terms of designing a personalized portal on this platform. First of all the platform is designed to serve static pages. This posed

Three companies

2008-02-12T15:04:00.001+05:30

The challenge Recently three IT companies were in news for job related issues. Due to the appreciating rupee most of the Indian IT companies are under margin pressures. The way these three companies are responding to the situations shows their character and the underlying message they want to give to the industry and the investors. Actions TCS in response to the challenges decided to cut VA of

TechPM - Technology or Management that is the question

2008-01-18T15:14:00.000+05:30

Sometime back, I was a technical guy. Exploring design, architecture, getting hands on experience on new technologies. Today I am a pure Project Manager. For long time I have been in two minds. Whether I should move to project management or not. I always felt that management is not my piece of cake and I am more a techie than a manager.Some of the questions I wanted to find answers were:1.