Faster, Better, Cheaper - Together
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Faster, Better, Cheaper - Together

Reflections on the craft and science of managing software projects

Why Project Management matters

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...

The current schedule of talks

Here are the first three talks in this series:

  1. Nov 3, Friday: A bird’s eye view of software project management - a conversation with Ranjan Sakalley
  2. Nov 29, Wed: Software Delivery: Prioritizing and optimizing for impact - by Gaurav Lochan
  3. Dec 21, Thu: When Quality Matters: Transcending resource barriers during software delivery - by Deepti Agrawal

What is the tech community saying about software projects these days?

Below is a selective snapshot of some major recent community conversations regarding how software projects are being run:

Who should participate; who should attend

  • Software Developers: Participate to stay aware of current and future trends in how software projects are run
  • Tech leads and Engineering Managers: You should find this series extremely relevant. You are the current and future practitioners of all these skills.
  • VPs of Engineering or CEOs who are new to their role: Learn from experienced people how they run projects, and also their thoughts about what may/may not work in a context, rather than adopting practices blindly.

About the curators

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 CTO and founder. He views himself as builder of all things tech.

Format

This project consists of a series of talks. The first three talks - from October to December 2023 - are lined up. View the schedule here. If you wish to speak on this forum, leave a comment.
The talks will be held offline and online. RSVP to stay updated.

Membership support

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Contact information

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Ranjan Sakalley

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A bird's eye view of software project management - a conversation with Ranjan Sakalley

Submitted Oct 18, 2023

Date 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.

About the speaker
Ranjan managed engineering for an Indian edTech company called Vedantu. Before that, he worked for GoJek as CTO and VP of Engineering. He has been a software developer since 2002, and prior to GoJek, worked for about a decade at ThoughtWorks, a software consultancy firm.

About the moderator
Rubela has led technical project management teams across organisations like Oracle, Visa and is currently at Conde Nast. She has worked across and managed globally distributed teams.

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