PM Footprints 2014

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Date / Venue	Topic	Presenter
11 Dec 2014 Central Park	Informal Communication Management - Impact of Humor in Project Management	Mr. Shankar Ramaswamy, Project Manager, SAP India – Solution Delivery Center
27 Nov 2014 Central Park	Outsourcing – the new paradigm with SMAC (Social Media, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud Computing) Technologies	Ms. Jamuna Ravi Managing Director - Pinovs Consulting Pvt Ltd
13 Nov 2014 Central Park	Leadership behaviours in successful projects	Mr. Lakshminarayana Sarma Bhamidipati Project Manager - Cegedim Software India Pvt Ltd
30 Oct 2014 Central Park	Enhance Quality in Project Delivery	Ms. Indrani Rao PMO Manager - Cegedim Software India Private Limited
09 Oct 2014 Central Park	Improve Customer Satisfaction by Managing Customer Expectations	Mr. Johncey George, Director – Software Delivery Center Schneider-Electric
11 Sep 2014 Central Park	The Strategies of Success - Dealing with North American Companies (Focus on the USA).	Mr. Jacob Mathews, Supervisor, Software Engineering Division, Optivus Inc., (Southern California), USA
28 Aug 2014 Central Park	Myth of Project End dates- creating value beyond it.	Mr. Sammeer S. Raawat Chief Catalyst, Suxess Multiplierz – Innovation and Growth Catalyst.
14 Aug 2014 Central Park	Lean in IT – Designed to Deliver : A Case Study Presentation	Mr. Dwaraki Rao , Mr. Ajay Nair Program Manager(s), HP Global e-Business Operations Pvt. Ltd
31 July 2014 Central Park	Managing Mindsets of those around helps manage projects better	Mr. Ajit Kaikini Director - Growth & Corporate Training, Buoyancee - A Poly Training Centre
17 July 2014 Central Park	New Paradigms for Knowledge Era	Mr. Vishweshwar Hegde (Vishu) Partner, PM Power Consulting
03 July 2014 Central Park	Maximising Throughput in Projects the TOC Way	Mr. Akshat Agrawal Senior Viable Vision Expert, Goldratt Consulting India Pvt. Ltd.
19 Jun 2014 Central Park	An Agile Journey – Brick by Brick a Transformation Journey and Lessons Learnt from Pilot to Large Scale Adoption.	Mr. Gopal N General Manager – Quality, Alcatel Lucent India Limited.
05 Jun 2014 Central Park	Challenges of Transitioning to Agile – The Team vis-à-vis PM	Ms. Padma Satyamurthy Independent Agile Coach and Consultant Fountainhead Consulting Pvt. Ltd.
22nd May 2014 Central Park	Functional Innovation Methodology – A systematic approach to accelerate patentable and profitable Ideas.	Mr. Lokesh Venkataswamy Managing Director Innomantra Consulting Private Limited
8th May 2014 Central Park	Leaping from Waterfall to Agility	Mr. Rudresha T. Shetty Director of Engineering (Professional BU)
24th April 2014 Central Park	PM Perspectives - Lessons learnth from large office construction Project	Mr. Sesha Sai Regional Manager, Project Management, Cushman & Wakefield India P Ltd.
10th April 2014 Central Park	Applying Startup Principles in Virtual Project Management	Mr. Srinidhi Prahlad CEO, Reinventio
27th Mar 2014 Central Park	Deep Self Awareness - How it can help at work	Mr. Venkatesh Seshadri CEO Arisawake,Bangalore
13th Mar 2014 Central Park	Key Project Management Practices in a R&D focused product development environment	Mr. S. A. Kumar InfineonTechnologies India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore.
27th Feb 2014 Central Park	Lean Startup in Enterprise	Mr. Manik Choudhary Project Development Expert, SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd.
13th Feb 2014 Central Park	Changing Role of Project Managers in Product Companies?	Prof. Pinkesh Shah Director Programs, Institute of Product Leadership
30th Jan 2014 Central Park	How Business Knowledge and Personality of PM affects Project Delivery?	Mr. Arun R Yadwad Delivery Manager, Professional Access Software Development Pvt Ltd., Bangalore
16th Jan 2014 Central Park	Key Insights into Project Portfolio Management (PPM)	Mr. Niladri Choudhury Expert Consultant and Trainer in Portfolio, Program and Project Management
2nd Jan 2014 Central Park	Common mistakes by Agile teams	Mr. Anand Murthy Raj Project Manager/Scrum Master, HP, Bangalore

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PM Footprints - Informal Communication Management - Impact of Humor in Project Management.


Mr. Shankar Ramaswamy Project Manager SAP India – Solution Delivery Center.

Date:
11-Dec-2014

Time:
6.30 PM to 8.00 PM

Venue:
Royal Orchid Central Hotel,
47/1, Manipal Center,
Dickenson Road, Bangalore

Profile of Speaker(s):

Shankar Ramaswamy, a Project Manager with SAP India – Solution Delivery Center has over 13 years’ experience in project management and consulting.

Throughout his professional career, Mr.Shankar has worked with several organizations, such as L&T Infotech, Tata Consultancy Services, IBM and Bearing Point. He has successfully managed large domestic and international projects in the areas of SAP implementations and is very experienced in onsite –offshore project management.

Mr. Shankar holds an MBA in Marketing Management from Mumbai University. He is a certified as a PMP by PMI since 2004.

Topic Description:

As a part of Project Management, PMBOK talks about structured communication management which covers process areas namely Planning, Managing and Controlling Communication.

As much as formal communication structures are important in Project Management, the importance of Informal Communication structures cannot be ignored. For any project to be success, informal communication channels must be open which speeds up decision making and prevents escalations. Humor as a part of Informal communication Management plays an important role. In this presentation we shall explore at a high level into what role does humor plays in any Project Management and the importance of it.

Expected Take-away:

Importance of informal communications in execution of projects is the key takeaway in this presentation. The audience may also be able to correlate the presentation with their past experiences.

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PM Footprints - Outsourcing – the new paradigm with SMAC (Social Media, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud Computing) Technologies.


Ms. Jamuna Ravi Managing Director Pinovus Consulting Pvt Ltd.

Date:
27-Nov-2014

Time:
6.30 PM to 8.00 PM

Venue:
Royal Orchid Central Hotel,
47/1, Manipal Center,
Dickenson Road, Bangalore

Profile of Speaker(s):

Ms. Jamuna is a Computer Science Engineer from BITS Pilani. She is also a CISA, CGEIT and a certified CMM assessor and ISO 9001 auditor. She is also a trained assessor in the Malcolm Baldrige Business Excellence model.

Ms. Jamuna has over 25 years of experience in IT industry with 23+ years with TCS and Infosys in leadership roles. She has held End-to-end Delivery Management responsibility for 3 years for Banking and Capital Markets customers of Infosys in the US managing a team of over 7000 people working on Application Development and Maintenance services. Her responsibilities included managing large accounts in financial services with geographically spread development teams.

She has been an entrepreneur for the past 2 years .Her company Pinovus Consulting has developed an Analytics and Reporting framework called COMPASS (COMPliance and AnalyticS Suite) on leading BI technologies like COGNOS and Jaspersoft which is available in SaaS models on the Cloud. The company also has a mobile application development platform called MOSAIC (Mobile Smart Applications) for the Android platform.

Topic Description:

The Indian software industry’s exports may grow by about 13% in fiscal year 2014 to $87 billion (around Rs.5.4 trillion today), driven by its ability to offer solutions that integrate new business models such as analytics and cloud-based services, which are part of SMAC (cloud, mobile, analytics, big data and social media services) with traditional ones, according to Nasscom’s Strategic Review 2014 report.

SMAC technologies account for less than 10% of the total revenue of IT companies, but according to research firm International Data Corp.’s (IDC’s) estimate, Indian IT vendors will generate at least $225 billion in SMAC-related revenue in 2020. This data shows the need for the Indian IT vendors to undertake a capability building in these technologies for their work force which needs to be led from the front by project managers.

The presentation will cover the new outsourcing paradigm of SMAC and how project managers can equip themselves to face the new challenges..

Expected Take-away:

The audience of project managers will gain the following details from the presentation :

- Role of the project managers in the new business models

- Strategic, facilitative, collaborative and scalable aspects of the Project Manager for SMAC projects

- Inherent risks in SMAC projects

- Increased need for customer engagement and interaction for project managers while managing SMAC projects

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PM Footprints - Leadership behaviours in successful projects.


Mr. Lakshminarayana Sarma Bhamidipati Project Manager Cegedim Software India Pvt Ltd.

Date:
13-Nov-2014

Time:
6.30 PM to 8.00 PM

Venue:
Royal Orchid Central Hotel,
47/1, Manipal Center,
Dickenson Road, Bangalore

Profile of Speaker(s):

Mr. Lakshminarayana has about 20+ years of experience and working as a Project Manager in Cegedim Software India Pvt Ltd., since last 4 years.

He is a PMP Certified professional and holds additional certifications:

Function Point Certification from Mahindra Satyam Computer services Ltd.,

ITIL Foundation certification from Mahindra Satyam Computer services Ltd.,

Microsoft Architect Accredition from Microsoft, Hyderabad

Speachcraft certification from Toastmasters International

Topic Description:

Leadership skills are synonymous with project management skills in any type of industry. A project manager shall have leadership qualities along with project management skills to run a project successfully. These required traits are discussed in detail in the presentation. Also the required leadership behaviours also discussed here.

Expected Take-away:

After the end of the presentation audience will gain knowledge on:

What leadership skills are, how to enhance them and how to use them in real time scenario to help them in managing projects in a better way?

They will understand the difference between leading & managing the teams. They will also understand to combine both the skills as and when required.

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PM Footprints - The science of successfully transitioning legacy product knowledge .


Ms. Meenalochani Rajnish - Engineering Director Unisys	Mr. Sathiswaran Thiruvenkadam - Engineering Manager Unisys

Date:
13-Nov-2014

Time:
6.30 PM to 8.00 PM

Venue:
Royal Orchid Central Hotel,
47/1, Manipal Center,
Dickenson Road, Bangalore

Profile of Speaker(s):

Ms. Meenalochani Rajnish

Have 20+ years of experience in the IT industry with a successful track record in providing delivery leadership for software products and managing large scale projects for customers across the globe.

As Engineering Director, presently responsible for driving product development on mission critical platforms. Responsible for incubating innovative ideas for new products, to planning, delivery and managing the entire product development life cycle.

Have also managed large scale complex projects for customers across the globe on cutting edge technologies.

Have a master’s degree in Computer Science and is a certified PMP.

Mr. Sathiswaran Thiruvenkadam

Engineering manager with over 16 years of experience in Project Management, Product Engineering, Delivery Management, Application Development & Implementation, and People Management.

Demonstrated success in end-to-end Product/Project management and ensuring effective management of various resources to meet project specifications.

He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, He is a certified PMP and also hold ITIL V3 and Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP).

Topic Description:

Building a technically strong with good systems programming skills and an in-depth product knowledge is key for successful product management. While it makes business sense to transition products built by high cost labs to countries with lower cost, this is often a huge challenge and not many companies have been successful. The challenges are compounded when it involves operating systems products, which are core to the customers’ business. These products have been developed using proprietary languages and technologies, and these skills are not available in the Indian market. Often the products lack documentation, which makes knowledge transition so much more challenging.

This is a case study on how a set of proprietary products were successfully transitioned, and the tools and methodology used for this transition.

Expected Take-away:

After the end of the presentation audience will gain knowledge on:

Product Transition – Best practices

Knowledge Management – Best practices

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