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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Pramod Biligiri
@pramodbiligiri
Submitted Jan 8, 2024
Date and time: Feb 1, Thursday, 7:30 pm IST
Venue: Online livestream
In this talk, Harsha Honnappa, an Associate Professor at the School of Industrial Engineering in Purdue University, will use his academic background to explain some concepts in queueing theory and probability. We will tie that in to project management questions like: Can I get this done faster, or cheaper? Should I have more slack for my team? Why is burstiness bad? And so on.
This talk should enable you to think more systematically about delays, variability, resource utilization, service times and so on. It will reference ideas discussed by people like Donald Reinertsen regarding product development flow: http://reinertsenassociates.com/videos/
We will try to run a queuing theory related simulator live to understand the concepts introduced, or look at some simulated results!
Harsha is happy to go off script if the audience has interesting questions or points to raise based on their experience. So do come armed with your questions :)
This session will be hosted by Pramod Biligiri.
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