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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

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

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:

• Developer Productivity report by McKinsey.
• Response to above McKinsey report by Gergely Orosz and Kent Beck: Part 1 and Part 2.
• Software Development Analytics tools in the market.
• Some threads on software project management which popped up on Hacker News in the last week of August 2023. They contain many first hand accounts of things going wrong:
  • Scrum is a cancer.
  • Ask HN: Do we need to revisit Agile/Scrum?
  • Ask HN: Why not Kanban?
• DORA Metrics

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 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.

Format

This project consists of a series of talks. View the schedule here. If you wish to speak on this forum, leave a comment.
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