Reflections on the craft and science of managing software projects
While companies rightly spend a lot of time thinking about their business goals and technology choices, they often ignore how best to combine them effectively into a successful software delivery operation. We can all recount being in a software project that failed despite having good ideas and technology choices behind it, leaving everyone miserable in its aftermath: “Is it the team’s fault?.. But didn’t we hire the best? What could have gone wrong?” Join us in this series as we explore such questions and more...
5. Mar 1, Friday: Measuring engineering productivity: Old pitfalls and new approaches - by Sudheer Bandaru
4. Feb 1, Thu: Exploring connections between queueing theory and project management, by Harsha Honnappa
3. Dec 21, Thu: When Quality Matters: Transcending resource barriers during software delivery - by Deepti Agrawal
2. Nov 29, Wed: Software Delivery: Prioritizing and optimizing for impact - by Gaurav Lochan
1. Nov 3, Friday: A bird’s eye view of software project management - a conversation with Ranjan Sakalley
Below is a selective snapshot of some major recent community conversations regarding how software projects are being run:
Pramod Biligiri is founder and CEO at Bitken Technologies. He works as a consultant for data engineering and data infrastructure related projects.
Mayankk Banerjee is a veteran CTO who has led Technology, Operations and Data science teams for global organizations like HelloFresh, Delhivery, Yahoo and Tally. He now spends his time being a fractional-Cxo at OldMonks,tinkering with code and coaching young engineering leaders and founders towards their next level of growth.
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Mayankk Banerjee Curated by our speakers: Further reading and viewingAs part of this series, we are sourcing further resources about project management from each of our speakers. You can find them below: more
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Ranjan Sakalley A bird's eye view of software project management - a conversation with Ranjan SakalleyDate and time: Nov 3, Fri, 5:30 PM - 6:15 PM IST What makes software project management hard or distinct? How would you guide today’s engineering leaders to situate themselves in the vast landscape of software delivery? Do people apply processes without understanding why they work? Ranjan Sakalley will share his perspective on these and more such questions. more
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Gaurav Lochan Editor Software Delivery: Prioritizing and optimizing for impactDate and time: Nov 29, Wed, 9 PM - 9:30 PM IST, followed by 30 min of Q&A more
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Deepti Agrawal When Quality Matters: Transcending resource barriers during software deliveryDate and time: Dec 21, Thu, 6 PM - 7 PM IST Can the pressure to satisfy short term deadlines be detrimental to solving genuinely hard problems? Does it prevent you from iterating upon what you have achieved so far? How do you decide when to dig deep and ask for more time and resources in the best interest of a project’s success? Deepti Agrawal will reflect upon these questions based on her experi… more
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Pramod Biligiri Exploring connections between project management and queueing theoryDate and time: Feb 1, Thursday, 7:30 pm IST Venue: Online livestream more
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Pramod Biligiri Measuring engineering productivity: Old pitfalls and new approachesCan you measure how efficient and productive your engineers are? Or is it a fraught notion? Can you go beyond gut instincts when it comes to measuring how well your team is doing? Are there new metrics and analytics tools that can help you in this regard? What are DORA Metrics? What are SPACE metrics? more
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