"With modern software project management, if a project is behind schedule, managers can add programmers to compress the schedule by about a quarter of the estimates"

"Variations among people account for the biggest differences on programmer productivity"

Indranil Nath , Ph.D. Professor, Technology Management & Strategy, MBA validated by University of Wales, UK, Visiting Lecturer, International University of Japan, Fellow Chartered Management Institute, UK. inath@ieee.org or i.nath@uow.jp

Indranil has in-depth understanding of emerging technologies and their commercial applications. Several years of success in planning and directing activities that provide innovative information technology and customer service solutions. He has performed a number of major engagements and held positions, particularly relevant to Software Engineering, Business Management, Change Management, BPR, Quality Management, Information Technology Delivery and Transformation, Vendor & Outsourcing Management, Business Process Innovation, Software Process Improvement and Training & Development functions and industry verticals. Indranil as a Six Sigma Process Leader and has helped established compelling vision for Information Systems functions that encompasses the bridging of the business needs with a technical solution, including company-wide systems development in the context of both buy and build scenarios, Products, CRM, ERP and MIS, maintenance of application systems and integration initiatives. He has managed improvement projects focused in five mega process areas - People, Sales, Services, Knowledge and Culture as change agent. He has worked on projects in Japan, USA, France, Germany, Singapore, United Kingdom, China, Australia and India.

Indranil took his graduate studies in Linguistics and post-graduate studies in Management Sciences and Doctorate in Engineering & Technology Management. He also holds a Graduate Diploma in Training & Development. Indranil is a Fellow of Chartered Management Institute in UK and member of Project Management Institute, Pennsylvania, USA, The Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, New Jersey, USA. He is a Chartered IT Professional (CITP) awarded by the British Computer Society and a Certified IT Project Manager (CITPM), endorsed by National IT Skills Certification Board, the INFOCOMM Development Authority of Singapore; accredited by the National University of Singapore and the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a Member of the Board of the Global Specific Interest Group (GSIG), the Japan Project Management Forum, a division of The Engineering Advancement Association of Japan (ENAA), Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Government of Japan and Chairs the Programs & Research Committee. He is also a member of the CIO Best Practice Exchange Forum in the US. He is assigned to various Technical Committees and Engineering Task Forces with some of the mentioned.

His current research study encompass the study to establish a Requirements Engineering model and encompass it under the evolutionary life cycle approach and show how requirements development and management can be integrated with a release-planning approach which might be an innovative way to capture, control and evolve the user requirements.

You can reach him at  inath@ieee.org or i.nath@uow.jp