Career and Professional Development (CSD)
Assessing Project Management Capabilities
Separating the best from the rest!
Are you involved in evaluating project management talent for your organization? If the answer is yes, then you are sure to have grappled with the problem of outlining the ingredients that go into determining that a project manager is indeed capable, competent and a professional; and then going a step further, taking a call on which project managers are the cream of the lot!
Across the industry, many others are in the same boat. So, we decided to talk to a number of CxOs, portfolio managers and HR professionals from around the world, to get a handle on what exactly goes into choosing the right project managers. While certification requirements have become de rigour, and assessment of core PM competencies is critical, most of our respondents agree that these alone only take you halfway to your objective. Therefore, our focus while writing this article was more on the qualitative indicators as opposed to developing a rigorous assessment model. Continue Reading
The Growing Project Management Profession in the Indian IT services industry
Ajay Parasrampuria, Managing Director i2m Management and Services IT’S A HOT SUMMER EVENING AND RAMESH HAS JUST WALKED OUT OF HARESH’S OFFICE, THE DELIVERY HEAD OF THE ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS PRACTICE AT GLOBALSYSTEMS. HE WAS JUST BRIEFED ABOUT HIS NEW ROLE REQUIREMENT. NOW IT TURNS OUT RAMESH HAS A MAJOR CAREER DECISION TO MAKE… Continue Reading
Don’t tell me how it’s done, just show me the results
Bridging the gap between knowledge and practice as viewed by practitioners and senior management
By Prof. Ajay Parasrampuria
Global standards and methodologies for project management are gaining 
recognition in the Indian corporate world. This is based partly on assumptions of a mutually informing relationship between standards and effective performance. But there are several obstacles—both practical and ideological—that is holding back progress on the adaptation of these standards. For example, there is no research or data that supports this assumption about standards and performance and many practitioners have started questioning the link.
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