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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. |
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Project and Process Management - Midway through
For the next assignment in our Project and Process Management class, our team delivered a presentation recommending a specific software methodology to the Vice President of Engineering of a fictional company. Included in the presentation were the evaluation method for selecting the methodology, refinements to the process, estimates of schedule, budget and resource, assessment of risks, and recommended action.
Our team worked on the underlying content for this presentation over several weeks. We allocated the work among ourselves in order to work in parallel and provide opportunity for in-depth research. We explored alternative approaches and collaborated through frequent meetings and shared documents. In this period, our coach offered valuable insights about effectively positioning our content for senior management. In the third week of this assignment, we organized our conclusions into slides. Finally, we presented our findings to the senior management of this fictional company.
During this period, our team members learned from each other. Our team meetings gradually became more effective, and we leveraged each others’ strengths to organize a high quality presentation. The learning that took place on this task came from our growing as a team, from applying the academic principles in a business setting, and from framing our findings for a senior management audience.
posted by Rene Newton @ 3:13 PM
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