Project Management Reflection

During my two years of study at NITIE, I came across quite a few exceedingly caring faculty members. Regarded as a father figure Prof. KKB, always ready to lend his ears to us, had a special disposition towards us as it was his panel that had shortlisted us. Prof. Donald with a polite smile, taught us project management and appraisal. He challenged us to examine a project and its financial aspects from various angles. Another fine professor, now no more, Prof SK Singh demonstrated foresight by ensuring inclusion of three programming languages (AUTOCODER, FORTRAN, COBOL) and a Systems Analysis course in our syllabus. I presume our program content was highly influenced by background and aspiration of Prof. NS Ramaswamy (NSR), who was earlier with Bajaj Institute of Management Studies and after NITIE stint, became the first Director of IIM Bangalore. Consequently, our IE program was different from the typical IE program, as covered at IIT-Madras and NPC (National Productivity Council).

Prof. NSR influenced many

Sharu Rangnekar, then CEO- Searle India, addressed us., They were acknowledged for communicating management principles in a extraordinarily jovial style, consequently, regarded as Laurel and Hardy on the Indian management scene . Author of an extremely popular book, titled – In the Wonderland of Indian Managers, Mr. Rangnekar has shared numerous accounts from his corporate life. I notice many of their observations still holding, e.g. a comment on the displacement of labour on introduction of automation in India. Citing overhead foot-bridge with an elevator, then constructed at Marine Drives, duo highlighted that this actually increased worker deployment; a sentry was employed to prevent fun seekers going up and down then a new civic toy. The situation has not changed. Our ATMs are guarded, and most road intersections with traffic lights require the help of a manual controller – a police or