TIMING

TOPIC & FACULTY

09:00  -  09:30

Registration

09:30  -  09:45

Inauguration by Dr. Balaguruswamy, Vice Chancellor, Anna University

09:45  - 10:15

Kick-off and overview

This presentation sets the agenda for rest of the day; also covers the different dimensions of Global Software Project Management at a high level

Faculty: G. Ramesh

10:15 – 11:15

Globalisation –opportunities, impacts, challenges and success story

The evolution of global software from a pure resource model to today’s truly distributed team is placing increasing emphasis on a balanced treatment of people, process and technology. This presentation discusses the issues in this new paradigm and also the opportunities that India has in this arena and the success that Oracle has had in India with product development, support services and a number of IT arenas

Faculty: Ranjan Chak, Vice President, Asia Pacific Product Services, Oracle Corporation

11:15 – 11:30

BREAK

11:30 – 12 :30

Biography of a Project

Each project goes through an evolution of initiation, planning, ongoing tracking and finally wind-up. This presentation traces a project through these stages of evolution, covering issues like Inter-group co-ordination, carrying forward the learning, etc which are vital to the success of a global project

Faculty: G. Ramesh, Adjunct Professor, Anna University, Chennai and Indian Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore

12:30 – 13:15

LUNCH

13:15 – 14:15

Metrics in Project Management – Perspectives and Experiences

Metrics constitute a very important aspect of project management. In the era of outsourcing, quality and predictability become absolutely critical. The users have come to demand very high quality, substantiated by metrics and based on standard models. This presentation deals with the practical issues that pertain to collection, analysis and use of Metrics, covering the products and services spaces.

Faculty: M. Rajamanickam,  Vice President, Quality, HCL Technologies

14:15 – 15:15

People Issues in Global Product Teams

Software is a very people-centric industry. While the focus of the eighties and early nineties were on pure process models like SW-CMM, there is a growing realisation of the need to bring about people centricity to the models. This presentation looks at the people issues that especially confront global product development teams

Faculty: R. Vidyasagar, Director, HR, iFlex  Solutions.

15:15 – 15:30

BREAK

15:30 – 16:45

Infrastructure and Government Initiatives

If BPO and ITES were to succeed to the same level product development has succeeded in India, there will be a more critical dependence on the infrastructure. This presentation highlights the importance of infrastructure and the role of Govt. agencies, Software Technology Parks and  STPI Units..

 Faculty: Ms Rajalakshmi, Director, STPI, Chennai

16:45 – 17:15

Wind-up, Summary and Possible Futures

This presentation looks at what else lies in store for global software projects, emerging paradigms, tools and technologies

Faculty:  G. Ramesh

17:15 – 17:30

Valedictory function presided by Professor C R Muthukrishnan, IIT, Chennai