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Project Management Research & Academic Conference 2011


Conference Agenda


Thursday, 31 January 2013
10:00 onwards
IC & SR Building
Registration
10:30 - 12:30
IC & SR Main Auditorium
Tutorial 1:
(Pre-Conference Workshop)
Resource Scheduling Heuristics
Dr C. Rajendran
Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch - IC & SR Dining Area
14:00 - 16:00
IC & SR Main Auditorium
Tutorial 2
(Pre-Conference Work shop)
Simulation tools for Teaching Project Management through video conferencing - Prof A. Shtub
Professor of Project Management, Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, Israel

Dr M. Suresh
Faculty from L&T IPM
15:00 - 16:30
IC & SR Hall 2
Academic Round Table discussion
Project Management Education - Issues and challenges
Chairperson: Dr. M. Rammohan Rao
Indian School of Business, Hyderabad

Panelists: Prof. Krishna Moorthy, Prof. G. Krishnamurthi, Prof. Raj Ponnuruli
16:30 - 17:00 High Tea for All Round Table participants discussion and Tutorial participants - IC & SR Dining Area
17:00 - 20:00
IC & SR Main Auditorium
Inaugural Session
- Welcome address by Conference Chair:
Dr. L.S. Ganesh
- Lighting of Lamp
- Address by Chair of Academic Advisory Group: Dr. Karuna Jain
- Address by IIT Director:
Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi
- Presidential Address: Mr S.Kanappan, Executive Vice President & Chief Executive of L&T Geo Structure
- Address by Chief Guest:
Dr. Srinivasan Sundarrajan, Director, National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
- Address by Guest of Honor
- Address by PMI India Managing Director:
Raj Kalady
- Vote of Thanks
20:00 onwards Banquet Dinner - Open Air Theatre (OAT)
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Friday, 01 February 2013
09:00 - 10:30
IC & SR Main Auditorium
Keynote address 1: Dr. Kaye Remington, Author of 'Leading Complex Projects'
Keynote address 2: Vikas Grover, Senior Vice President, Technology Planning, Vodafone
10:30 - 11:00 Tea / Coffee / Refreshments - IC & SR Dining Area
11:00 - 12:30
TRACK 1
(IT Project Processes and Methodologies)
TRACK 2
(Construction & Infrastructure Projects)
Location - IC & SR Building - Hall 3
Location - IC & SR Main Auditorium
Technical Paper Presentation 1:
Managing Complex Projects with Global Teams: A Project Manager’s Perspective - Vijay Gugnani,
Global Services Fiserv, Noida; Joe Hipp, Product Management & PlanningFiserv, Brookfield, USA

Technical Paper Presentation 2:
Deriving Process Performance Models - A Dimensional Analysis Approach -
Balamurali L, Samiya Salim, Arun Kumar V, Geethu K. Nair,
Network Systems & Technologies (P) Ltd

Technical Paper Presentation 3:
Abridge the High Maturity Complexities - Acclimatize Linear Programming Techniques -
Balamurali L, Samiya Salim, Sreepooja Anilkumar, Rahul Rajeev,
Network Systems & Technologies (P) Ltd

Technical Paper Presentation 4:
A New Approach for Project Management using Predictive Control Technology -
Ramesh Murugan Natarajan, Ranganathan Srinivasan,
Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab, Bangalore

Chairperson: Dr. Shashikant V. Albal,
SSN School of Advanced Software Engineering, Chennai
Technical Paper Presentation 1:
Public Private Partnership's (PPP): The Future of India’s Infrastructure Growth, A Myth, Mystery Or A Reality? -
Prasanna B Babli,
Employee to Entrepreneur (EtoE) Rail, Bengaluru

Technical Paper Presentation 2:
Learning the Construction Project Management System (CPMS): An Ontological Method -
Arkalgud Ramaprasad,
Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois Chicago
A.N. Prakash, Nagesh Rammurthy, A.N. Prakash,
CPMC, Pvt. Ltd. Bengaluru

Technical Paper Presentation 3:
Integration Management with Plant 3D Information System -
Sreekumar Pillai, L & T

Technical Paper Presentation 4:
Project Scheduling with the Workers Skill Level -
Dr. J. Uma Maheswari, Ratnesh Kumar,
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Chairperson: Prof. Anil Sawhney,
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch - IC & SR Dining Area
13:30 - 15:00
TRACK 1
(Project Management Methodologies)
TRACK 2
(Student Papers)
Location - IC & SR Building - Hall 3
Location - IC & SR Main Auditorium
Technical Paper Presentation 1:
Using Probabilistic Analysis in Project Planning - Ian Wallace, Palisade

Technical Paper Presentation 2:
Project Management Office - Beyond Strategic Project Management -
Diana Ambrose, Sreejith G Sreekumar
Network Systems and Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (NeST) Trivandrum

Technical Paper Presentation 3:
Integrating Materials Management of Large Projects with Project Management
Vijaya Dixit, Rajiv Kumar Srivastava, Atanu Chaudhuri IIM, Lucknow

Chairperson: Dr. M. Rammohan Rao,
Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
Technical Paper Presentation 1:
Social Impact Assessment for Infrastructure Projects -
Shubhayu Dutta, Shantanu Hazra, Ajay Ashok Chavan
National Institute of Construction Management And Research(NICMAR), Pune

Technical Paper Presentation 2:
Role of Sustainability and Energy Management in Projects -
Santosh S. Bagi, Naveen Sabbi, Sonal Shinde, Lakshmy N
National Institute of Construction Management and Research(NICMAR)Pune

Technical Paper Presentation 3:
Importance of Project Management Knowledge to meet complexity and for standardizing - Thuhin Prakash,
National Institute of Construction Management and Research (NICMAR), Pune

Technical Paper Presentation 4:
Assessment of Schedule Risk based on 'Tightness Index' -
Ankit Agarwal, Asjad Khan, Apparusu Bhargava,
Kuldeep OrpeNational Institute of Construction Management & Research (NICMAR), Pune

Chairperson: Prof. L.S. Ganesh
15:00 - 15:30 Tea / Coffee / Refreshments - IC & SR Dining Area
15:30 - 17:00
IC & SR Main Auditorium
Doctoral Students presentations and comments / discussions from expert panel.
Technical Paper Presentation 1: Venkata Santosh Kumar, IIT Madras
Technical Paper Presentation 2: Balachander Swaminathan , IIT Bombay
Technical Paper Presentation 3: Vijay Bilolikar , IIT Bombay
Technical Paper Presentation 4: B I Ravi , IIT Madras

Expert Panel : Prof. Tapan Bagchi, Dr. Karuna Jain, Dr. K.N. Satyanarayana and Prof. Goutam Dutta
AWARDS PROGRAM
18:00 - 20:30
Student Activity Centre (SAC)
Welcome address by PMI
Address by Chief Guest - Prof. Raghuram,Vice Chancellor Indian Maritime University, Chennai
Awards announcement
20:30 Onwards Cultural Programme
Vote of thanks
Dinner - IC & SR Dining Area
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Saturday, 02 February 2013
09:00 - 09:45
IC & SR Main Auditorium
Keynote address 1: Dr. Girija Vaidyanathan
(ex-Secretary, Department of Health and Family Welfare, GoTN
Professor V. R. Muraleedharan (among the most respected experts globally on Healthcare Systems and Policy)

Chairperson: Dr. M. Rammohan Rao, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad
09:45 - 11:15
TRACK 1
(Agile Methodologies)
TRACK 2
(Project Management Methodologies)
Location - IC & SR Main Auditorium
Location - IC & SR Hall 3
Technical Paper Presentation 1:
Risk Adjusted Agile - An Agile Start-up Approach for IT Organizations -
Mohammed Musthafa Soukath Ali,
Tata Consultancy Services Limited,Chennai

Technical Paper Presentation 2:
AGILE: Transitional Approach from Plan-Driven to Event-Based Development - Fayyaz Ahmed,
Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Toronto

Technical Paper Presentation 3:
Choice of Agile Methodologies in Global Software Projects -
R. Sriram, Dr. Saji K. Mathew,
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai

Chairperson: Prof. Gopalaswamy Ramesh
Technical Paper Presentation 1:
Residual Risk Quantification in the Engineering Outsourcing Industry -
Dr. Chakradhar Iyyunni,
L&T Institute of Project Management, Vadodara

Technical Paper Presentation 2:
A Performance Analysis of Priority Rules in Resource Constrained Multi Project Scheduling with Sequence Dependent Resource Transfer times -
Dr. Suresh M,
L&T Institute of Project Management, Vadodara
Dr. Karuna Jain, Shailesh J,
Mehta School of Management Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai

Technical Paper Presentation 3:
The Need for Using New Research Approaches in Project Management -
Dr. Shankar Sankaran,
PMP, School of the Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Dr. Nathalie Drouin,
Department of Management and Technology, ESG UQAM, Montreal, Canada
Prof. Ralf Müller,
BI-Fudan MBA Programs, Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway

Chairperson: Prof. Tapan Bagchi
11:15 - 11:45 Tea / Coffee / Refreshments - IC & SR Dining Area
11:45 - 13:00
IC & SR Main Auditorium
Panel discussion:
Managing complex Infrastructure Projects
Moderator / Anchor: Dr Ashwin Mahalingam, IIT Madras
Panelists - Dr. Kaye Remington, N. Raghavan, INAE Distinguished Visiting
Professor - IIT, Madras and Ajit Pradhan, MD, CH2MHILL India
13:00 - 13:45 Lunch - IC & SR Dining Area
13:45 - 15:15
TRACK 1
(Construction & infrastructure projects)
TRACK 2
(IT Project Processes and Methodologies)
Location - IC & SR Hall 3
Location - IC & SR Main Auditorium
Technical Paper Presentation 1:
eTools for Managing Construction Projects in India: Coming of Age with New Age Solutions -
Prof. Anil Sawhney, Kamal K Mukherjee,
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Technical Paper Presentation 2:
Comparing the Advantages of China and India in International Construction -
Prof. Chuan Chen,
Business School, Sichuan University, China
Prof. Mona Shah, Dr. Gangadhar Mahesh,
National Institute of Construction Management and Research(NICMAR), Pune

Technical Paper Presentation 3:
Information Asymmetry and the Promise of Building Information Modelling -
Prof. Perry Forsythe,
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Dr. Shankar Sankaran,
School of the Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Chairperson: Dr. K.N. Satyanarayana
Technical Paper Presentation 1:
Probing the Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Fixed Time Fixed Price Software Project Implementation: Case of an Indian IT Company -
Mohammed Arshad Khan,
Sapient Corporation NOIDA Oxygen Boulevard
Prof. Santanu Roy,
Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Dubai

Technical Paper Presentation 2:
Enabling Effective IT Risk Management with a Robust Risk Analysis -
Thiyagarajan Ganesh Ganesan,
Cognizant Technology Solutions, Chennai
Gokul Balakrishnan,
Cognizant Technology Solutions, Massachusetts, USA

Technical Paper Presentation 3:
Process Combing - Improving IT Project Delivery in Well-Governed Organizations
Mohammed Musthafa Soukath Ali, Prasanna Sreenivasan,
Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Chennai

Chairperson: Dr. Saji Mathew
15:15 - 15:45 Tea / Coffee / Refreshments - IC & SR Dining Area
15:45 - 16:45
IC & SR Main Auditorium
VALEDICTORY SESSION
- Welcome address by Conference Chair - Dr. L. S. Ganesh
- Address by Chief Guest - Prof. Kandaswamy Bharathan, Visiting professor at IIM Ahmedabad, and CEO of Kavithalya Films
- Address by Distinguished Guest - Mr. K. Ananth Krishnan, CTO, TCS
- Best Technical Paper Award Presentation
- Vote of Thanks by PMI
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Note: The above agenda is subject to change.