Sketches by Sonaal Bangera

Memories

Memories are the archives of Times,
As we live, we compose those rhymes.

some r sweet some r sour
some r bright some r hazy

some bring in that broad smile
some bring in the blue Nile

some steer our lives to a new direction
some halt for a long time in one destination

some guide u like a shining star
some remind u of a hurting scar

Memories are the archives of Times
As we live, we compose those rhymes!

- Prof. Latha L

Padhaaro Mhaare Des

17-19th March..Destination Mt.Abu. Had great fun!




Cheers,
Ganga

Guest Lecture Invitation:

Dear All,

On Thursday, 15th March, Mr. Shekhar Agrawal, Director and Business Head of Alcatel-Lucent will be coming over to our campus for a guest lecture. He has over 20 years of experience in IT and Telecom with current assignment being ‘Director and Head of Enterprise and Vertical business for South Asia’ with Alcatel-Lucent. Prior to this he was holding senior management positions at Cisco, Lucent technologies and HCL Group at various points during his career. All through, he has been in Sales, Marketing and Business management positions.

Topic: Opportunities and success factors in IT and Telecom sector for management grads.

Date: 15th March 2007

Time: 5:15 pm to 7:30 pm

Venue: DOME 2

Kindly register yourself for the session in advance by filling details at the following location.

\\dataserver\students\GuestLecture\Register_GuestLecture_ Mr.ShekarAgrawal.xls

NB: Participants of PGDSM MIT 03 need not register in the sheet.

Cheers,
Ganga

Dr.Arthur 51 rule...

We are having a great time learning, unlearning, discussing and debating in Dr. Arthur's class. The best part is that he interacts with us in such an approachable way. Had a good time preparing for and presenting the critique of the MPSP (main prog sub prog) archi...Sonaal and Baldi were their usual creative best with the ppt master. What with the curvy lens effect on the title and all..simply soooperb! Javed and I had taken the mantle of presenting the ideas of our group (3). We did a decent job I guess...The context, our evaluation criteria and the critique layout went down well with the profs. Dr. Arthur congratulated both the groups.. 1 and 3..for a superlative effort. Prof. Gogate's words were also encouraging. After a hectic day of sessions and presentations, Dr. Arthur took a vote on whether or not to continue the sessions. A moment later he jokingly said that he reserved 51% stake in the voting :))

Earlier in the day, we discussed about the metrics management...Raleigh curve - staffing plan..mean time to failure etc. Dr. Arthur has a vast experience working for the DoD (Dept. of Defence, USA). He has worked on the Tomahawk Cruise Missile ground support system software. He also recollected how while working on SLBM, his team had to work on migration from Fortran to an OO language...and how one person from the client's side wanted to push C++ more than Java.

Dr. Arthur is a fan of tandoori chicken. He peppers his conversation with Hindi words like 'bachchon ka khel' and 'chai'. Know what, he owns a motor boat back home...enjoys fishing. He has recommended Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry and Tom Hanks' Apollo 13 for us to watch. So far we have had one *pop* quiz!

So, people..who handles a project that has budget and schedule over-runs and no metrics whatsoever? The class fervently shouts in unison... IIMmer.

It's bedtime folks...
Cheers,
Ganga

Hearty welcome to Dr. James Arthur!

It is a great pleasure for the students and faculty of PGDSM MIT to extend a warm welcome to Dr. James Arthur.
Cheers,
Ganga

Fascinating Quotes - 1

"Necessity is the invention of all mothers"

- Lord Mano Ranjan