PM-Expression
DATE: 16 th Jun , 2010 VOLUME: 15
Dear Professionals,

As temperatures hit new highs in most parts of India, people suffered from heat strokes, the danger of dehydration and violent heat waves. But since the monsoon has come at the right time much to our rescue, we have at last stopped sweating on soaring temperatures. Even northern India had pre-monsoon showers. Much like the weather, projects in most of the business industries were troubled due to delays caused by various reasons such as time over runs, cost over runs, loss of resources, management of vendors and so on. But thanks to the awareness in Project Management across most of the industries that today we have learnt to save the failed or troubled projects across various verticals. Project Management methodologies have not only been embraced by a good number of industries, but also been implemented successfully to carry out the projects.

The discipline of Project Management has recently started getting the due attention it deserves. As a result PMI and KPMG conducted a study in the field of Infrastructure Management. The market research revealed some interesting aspects like Infrastructure growth has been 22% in the year 2008-09 and the GOI plans to spend Rs 46.4 Trillion in this segment in the 12th Five Year Plan 2013-17. Imagine a saving of just 10% if systematic project management is adhered to instead of managing projects on ad-hoc basis. It also revealed that 82% of the projects had time over runs in a study of 1035 projects undertaken during the period 1992 to 2009 and 41% of the projects suffered from cost over runs. 77% of the respondents attributed project delays to weak project planning and monitoring. Another startling fact that came to light was that 46% of the respondents felt that monitoring of projects by independent agencies can be a critical factor to reduce the instances of Project delays and cost over runs.

All this shows that we have a long way to go. ALL PM professionals should take it upon them to ensure that all those involved in the serious business of managing projects are qualified project professionals.

After all, we go to a qualified CA for all our tax related problems and a super specialist cardiac surgeon for any heart problem. Why should we leave our projects worth hundreds and thousands of crores of rupees at the disposal of those who are not qualified and specialists in PM?  
Regards,

Veerendra Jaitly
President

CII and PMI’s Conference on Project Management

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Southern Region and Project Management Institute (PMI®) jointly organized a two-day conference on Project Management on May 21st -22nd , 2010 at Hotel Taj Coromandel, Chennai. The theme of the conference was Orchestrating Complex Projects and the knowledge partner of the event was KPMG. As the objective of the conference was taking project management practices across sectors, CII invited distinguished people from different industries to share their thoughts and experiences on the theme topic, including Mr.Upendra Giri, CEO & Founder, AstroWix Corporation. He presented on Project Rescue - Turning Around a Troubled Project to motivate and encourage all sectors and industry players for adopting project management principles. The other key speakers at the conference were Mr Pankaj Jain, IAS, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Statistics & Program Implementation; Dr Anil Sawhney, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi; Mr Partha Banerjee, Executive Director, KPMG Advisory Services Pvt Ltd; Mr M G Prashanth, General Manager – Programme Delivery, Wipro Infotech Ltd; Mr R Madhusudhan and Mr Vinod Venkateswaran, Group Project Managers, Infosys Technologies Ltd; Mr K Raghunathan, Global Delivery Head, Tata Consultancy Services.

AstroWix launches Prince 2 Certification Courses in Mumbai

AstroWix brings the World's Most Widely Used Project Management Method for IT & non-IT projects PRINCE®2. It is a process-based project management method covering the organization, management and control of projects. Although PRINCE 2TM was originally developed for the needs of IT projects, the method has also been adopted on many non-IT projects. The 5 day course by AstroWix on PRINCE 2TM consists of The Foundation Examination and the PRINCE 2TM Practitioner Examination. Professionals are required to pass the Foundation Examination to become a PRINCE 2TM Practitioner. 

Upcoming Workshop:
7th – 11th July, Mumbai

AstroWix introduces ITIL Courses in US

AstroWix is introducing ITSM course in order to deliver higher quality service resulting in improved IT operations to meet business commitments for the first time in the USA. ITIL V3 Foundation is a 3 days course that introduces the concepts of IT Service Management (ITSM) based on Version 3 of the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). It describes the IT Service Management Lifecycle. It also provides a set of specialized organizational capabilities for providing value to customers in the form of services.

Upcoming Workshop:
9th-10th, June, New York

CAPM: A Bright Opportunity for Young Professionals


Certified Associate in Project Management is a 3 day program by PMI. Through this course the participants not only become CAPM certified professionals but learn to implement the skills and knowledge to understand the overall project environment and manage the project through every stage of its lifecycle. This course by AstroWix has been especially designed for the freshers and junior project team members, IT staff, schedulers, planners, IT managers, software designers, project coordinators, engineers and many more. This training on CAPM increases the career opportunities for the young professionals. They gain a distinction and recognition in the growing community of project management practitioners. AstroWix is proud of its PMI certified trainers from various industries who help provide industry specific examples and case studies to simplify the ground-rules of Project Management.

FICCI Conference on Project Management

Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and Project Management Institute (PMI) organized a Consultative Meet on ‘Project Management Initiatives in India’ in theFederation House, New Delhi on 26-May-2010; Wednesday.The program was chaired by Mr. Pankaj Jain, IAS, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Statistics & Program Implementation.
Mr. Raj Kalady and Mr. Dhiraj Gyani from PMI and Mr. V.K Jaitly from AstroWix participated as experts in the Project Management. FICCI and PMI have undertaken a research study under the leadership of Mrs Bajaj, from FICCI to explore trends and practices in project management across six key sectors namely Automobile, Defence, Energy, Infrastructure, IT- ITES and Real Estate. Mr. Alok Kesri from FICCI presented  the findings from the survey conducted.

This consultative meet was part of the above mentioned research program and was aimed at capturing views and expert opinions from all the stakeholders on the key factors influencing successful project delivery, adoption of best practices to improve organizational project management and gaps in project management skills and initiatives towards building capability.

1. Who could be the stake holder of a project?
   
  1 ) Project manager 2 ) Customer
  3 )Team member 4 ) All of the above
     
 
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