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“IF THEY CAN, WE ALSO CAN” ACTIONABLE TALKS FORBY DUMMY ON

MANAGEMENT OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT Name of the Dummy:

(MBA, PMP, CISSP, CCNA, JapanProfessional in Business Law)

Passion of the Dummy:

see the illustration above

* Illustration is courtesy by Unmad Magazine


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OBJECTIVE OF TODAY’S PRESENTATION

At the end of this presentation, each of you would be like … … …


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MORE ABOUT THE “DUMMY” 3 Different industryjob-experience

1. Manufacturer: Bell Labs R&D Lucent Technologies

2. Service provider: KVH Telecom

3. Financial Industry: Citigroup

3 Key strengths 1. Quality Management (the establishment and certification of ISO9001 inLucent Bell Labs R&D in Japan as the lead Management Representative),

2. Project Management (through crucial technical projects in Fidelity-groupcompany and Citi)

3. Process Engineering (end-to-end process creation for organizationaldevelopment and risk management for delivery with quality, leveraging thetechnical and business knowledge)

3 AcademicMilestones

1. MBA (Y2008)

2. Masters in Electronics Engineering (Y1999, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

3. Japan Government Scholarship student to study engineering inundergrad.

3 Languages 1. Japanese 2. Bengali 3. English

3 Words I do not feelcomfortable with

“Support” “SLA” “Sub-optimization”

3 Words I like most Tell me, and I will forget;

Show me, and I may remember;

Involve me, and I will understand.” – Chinese Proverb

http://www.kvh.co.jp/


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HOW TO BE N FFECTIVE DUMMY (RULES OF THE ROAD FOR TODAY)

Be Engaged 1. Respond to Questions without thinking. Use your nativelanguage so that I can feel your passion.

2. Ask Questions if you do NOT understand ( no need for intelligentquestion or good question. Any question if it is authentic, is good)

Stick to theschedule

1. After around every 45-minutes, there will be 12-minutes break(use that time to yawn, or to fall into sleep)

2. At the end of the session, I will be available for 30-minutes. Wecan also catch up

Follow-up Email Address:

[email protected] (after Nov 18th , 2014)

(London is 6-hours behind from Dhaka in non-Summer Time)


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THE BIG PICTURE


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LETS THINK ABOUT A STORY

Three persons have been building a wall with bricks A passers-by, Mr. M, is asking them what they are doing

Reply of the 1st person: Don’t you see what we are doing?

Reply of the 2nd person:Hmmm, we are making a wall


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LETS CONTINUE WITH THAT STORY Reply of the 3rd person: We are building a wall which is part of a magnificent palace and will remain as amilestone for man’s love to woman, in the history of mankind


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MANAGEMENT OF SOFTWARE

DEVELOPMENT What is your definition of a “manager”?

What limits you to be the next Infosis or Wipro orAccenture?


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WHO IS A MANAGER?

Or, Alternatively What is Management?

Simply speaking, yes, so simply,Management is a combination of

-planning

-doing-checking-acting (on checking results)

Management is NOT-a function-an organization

But a-discipline


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MANAGEMENT OF SOFTWARE

DEVELOPMENT Just use any model, e.g., SDLC


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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MODEL

Stick to the principle

Planning is more important than the plan itself

Be disciplined to any model (but only one model)

SDLC, SILC, PMP anything whatever definition there is

SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle)

Define/Design/Plan

Implement

Validate/Handover

Closure

Manage theproject (PDCA)


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REAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT WORK

Let’s discuss about a simple quotation from the company

Item CalculationUnit

Unit Charge RequiredMonths

Sub-total

ProjectManagement

Man-month

100,000BDT/month

12-months 1,200,000BDT

SoftwareDevelopment

Man-month

60,000BDT/month

12-months 720,000 BDT

Total 1,920,000BDT

Why pay for Project Management?


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REAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT WORK

Can we link the quote to project deliverables?

Item Calculatio

nUnit

Unit

Charge

Required

Months

Sub-total

Project PlanDocument

Doc 400,000BDT/doc

N/A 400,000

ProjectImplementation

Document

Doc 200,000BDT/doc

N/A 300,000

Project ValidationDocument

Doc 350,000BDT/doc

N/A 350,000

Project ClosureDocument

Doc 150,000 N/A 150,000

SoftwareDevelopment Man-month 60,000BDT/month 12-months 720,000

Total 1,920,000


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FINAL WORDS FROM THE MOST

PASSIONATE DUMMY Please Never Never Never Ever Forget

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SHINBOUMETSU 親 (Shin, Shitashimu) To Learn

忘 (Bou, Wasureru) To Unlearn

滅 (Metsu, Horobiru) To Destruct and Relearn

Terms What I learnt long ago What I destructed and re-learnt

Manager • Manager is who manages.• Manager is different fromleader.

• Manager is who does ALL of PDCA.• Manager or Leader are all the same. PDCAis the key that distinguishes them fromothers.

Strategy • Strategy is something oflong-term.• One needs Vision, Missionand strategy for long-term.

• Strategy is selection from options andcoherent actions on the options• Vision /Mission are the last thing acompany or an individual needs. Strategy

covers everything.Need ofNetworking

• Networking is crucial forvertical/lateral careerprogression

• Networking harms to select the rightperson for right function.• Be honest, have integrity and be desperateto shape your own future rather thanrelying on network.

Extra-ordinary

What you learnt about thedefinition of extra-ordinary?

What you today think about the definitionof extra-ordinary?


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NOW IT’S YOUR TURN

To be the Manager

In the family

In the corporate life

You know the basics of Management

You know how you can develop strategies

Can you field your candidature some day(including today) for the CEO position of Unilever,GP, HSBC, Stanchart, LaFarge and so on?

Why NOT?

If They Can, We Also Can


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HAVE WE MET OUR OBJECTIVES OF TODAY’S SESSION? At the end of this presentation, each of you would be

like

Please answer to the following :

I have become equally passionate and would recommend this sessionto other people or replicate this in my own life (individual and

corporate)

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