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Amin is a second year grad student in the MS Software Management program, a former Software Design Engineer from Microsoft and a current Software Engineer at Adify, a Silicon Valley startup. He is passionate about entrepreneurship, software and traveling. He would love to start a software company someday. |
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Vineet is a second year part-time software management student, currently working @NetApp also nominated as the best place to work in North America recently. His area of expertise is Oracle ERP solutions. Other professional areas of interest are SaaS markets both technologically and business wise. @CMU he wants to grow his knowledge to manage software products and businesses. He is interested in work on start up ideas. On the personal side he loves to spend time with his family and travel. |
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Rene is a recent alum, a manager of operations and program manager in Cisco's software development organization, the mother of two daughters and a performing arts fan. |
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Wrapping up Elements of Software Management
In this entry I will discuss the last two weeks of the 7-week Elements of Software Management class. Our final assignment called on us to make a presentation about the software business prognosis of our assigned companies. This would draw on different skill sets. We needed to work with our teams to agree on a common approach to assessing the prognosis for each of our companies. We then needed to synthesize the key points from all of our earlier assignments, especially drawing on the market analysis, business strategy and financial analysis, and to determine where we believed our companies would be at a time in the future.
The task required that we organize our findings in a coherent presentation format suitable for communication in a short amount of time. We presented our findings to faculty and other students, fielding questions that called on more in-depth knowledge. These presentations gave us the opportunity to get feedback from faculty on our content and presentation styles as well as to observe our classmates and to learn from their characterizations of their own companies.
Reflecting on the entirety of the course, I have discovered how to work within the framework of the program, including team collaboration and learning by doing, while also considering my longer-term learning plan and how the current assignments relate to that plan. I better understand the larger software industry that is the subject of this course and of others that are coming later in the program. I have also
become an active member of the Carnegie Mellon University Silicon Valley community, and look forward to the learning opportunities to come.
I will return soon to share experiences related to the second class in the program.
posted by Rene Newton @ 11:54 AM
- Elements of Software Management
- Orientation and First Week of Classes!
- An Introduction to Rene
- Summertime at CMU
- Product Marketing and Human-Computer Interaction C...
- It's paying off already!
- Soup's On - Join the fun at Carnegie Mellon West!
- Back to School and the Electives
- Family Matters
- Winding Down One Class and Gearing Up for Another
