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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. |
Friday, May 1, 2009
Project and Process Management - Wrapping it Up!
For our final assignment in the Project and Process Management class, our team was called on to consider our response to a scenario in which the fictional company described in the second assignment had started down the project execution path and had encountered some difficulties. We assessed the project status, revised the resource, cost and schedule estimates, and recommended actions to improve the project’s chances of success.
Key elements of this assignment including recognizing the project issues and their impact, determining their cause, considering the lessons learned, and formulating recommendations. Among the lessons we learned were that hiring and getting a new project team up and running can take longer than expected.
Much of our learning and in-depth analysis on this assignment came near the end of the week in which it was due. We had to get to the point of fully characterizing the whole set of issues in order to craft a response that tied together. Building on the collaborative strengths we developed on the second assignment, team members could comfortably ask each other for help and benefit from the various perspectives that each one of us offered. The report went through multiple stages of refinement before we were satisfied with it. This project incorporated significant contributions from each team member and reinforced both our learning to work as a team and our application of the course’s core principles in a business setting.
posted by Rene Newton @ 12:19 PM
- Project and Process Management - Midway through
- Project and Process Management Class
- Finishing Up Metrics for Software Managers
- The Team's Learning Processes
- Metrics for Software Managers - First Impressions
- Wrapping up Elements of Software Management
- Elements of Software Management
- Orientation and First Week of Classes!
- An Introduction to Rene
- Summertime at CMU
