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ShriKant Vashishtha

Challenges of a new project manager in Indian IT company

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I have been thinking about this problem for quite a long time now. The problem may be more evident in Indian software companies. I am not sure if it exist in other countries also but for sure, it does exist in Indian IT scenario.

Many Indian IT are companies are on hiring spree for quite sometime because of off-shoring boom. Some of the companies have a target of hiring 25000 people in a year. That’s a lot! It leads to resource crunch. You may not find as many good people as you want.
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Importance of Scrum based stand-ups in traditional IT projects!

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As discussed in my earlier JavaWorld article Agility meets the waterfall, there are various practices in Agile world which can be used in traditional projects also.

One of the best practice I came to know is the practice of stand-ups in Scrum based Agile project. A stand-up is all about having a 10-20 minutes meeting with all the team members of a Scrum team. In this meeting each member talks about what he did in the last day, what he’s supposed to do today and if there any impediments in his working. No detailed discussions are allowed in this meeting . In case you require them, they can be taken offline with the concerned stake-holders. However in this meeting you can discuss the need of that offline discussion.
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The future of software world???

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Things in software world are changing rapidly. But, what’s hidden in coming future leads to a lot of curiosity. Almost 20-25 years back, low level programming languages were introduced. It was a kind of revelation for the entire world as one could think that some computational work involving business logic could be done by machines. After a while some high level programming languages such as C and C++ got introduced. They provided a lot of power to software developers as now programming languages could be used for creating real time business softwares. However C and C++ came along with a lot of complexities. One had to think about complex language issues before using the language for implementing business logic.
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