• Product development methodologies

    Product development methodologies

    I would like to start the discussion with statement, there is no “One size fits all” approach in product development. Ideal example of traditional (waterfall) product development can be referred from automobile engineering where the V-model is extensively followed. It’ is basically a sequential process, where the next step cannot proceed unless the previous one Read more

  • PMP – Acronyms

    PMP – Acronyms

    AC – Actual Cost ACWP – Actual Cost of Work Performed (same as AC) BAC – Budget at Completion BACP – Actual Cost of Work Performed BCR – Benefit Cost Ratio BCWP – Budgeted Cost of Work Performed (same as EV) BCWS – Budgets Cost of Work Scheduled (same as PV) CA – Control Account Read more

  • PMP – Exam preparation tips: questions category

    PMP – Exam preparation tips: questions category

    PMP exam will consist of 200 multiple choice questions covering all the domains of project management – Initiation, Planning, Executing, Monitoring and control, closing. I will try to categorise the types of questions that you can expect in the exam, and some tips on how to tackle these categorical questions. Formula based questions Since the Read more

  • AI in project management

    AI in project management

    Buzz around the machine learning and artificial intelligence is everywhere and project management is not excluded from it. Does this mean the project managers will be replaced by AI systems? My strong belief is that AI will not be able to mimic the cognitive and reasoning ability of humans. Project management is being flexible, compromising, Read more

  • Project Management : Templates

    Project Management : Templates

    In this blog i will share the templates that comes handy for the project manager. I have created the templates leveraging my project management experience. Please suggest improvements, so that the templates can be refined.   Communication plan template: I have experienced personally how critical a communication plan is for project execution. Project communication plan Read more

  • Embedded C: Optimization

    Embedded C: Optimization

    Most hard part of the coding is to optimize it for efficiency and minimizing resource usage. In embedded systems optimization becomes the highest priority because of the limited resources, so the program should be optimized to execute with less memory/storage, shrink power consumption and other resources. Largely program optimization is targeted to achieve more execution Read more