One PM to another

The death of the Project Manager

With the advent of software scaling horizontally, automation, small teams—so small that Jeff Bezos called them 'Two Pizza Teams'—today's businesses are doing away with project management. Or at least project management as we knew it

18/01/18

Sidu Ponnappa

Handling communication, managing leaves, mediating disputes—the Project Manager was the backbone of Indian IT

For the modern business, software isn’t an “enabler” like it was in the 90s. Today, it doesn’t matter which market or sector the company is in

Before, Indian IT deals started small and then grew in scope over the years as more people, requirements and budgets were tacked on. That’s changing

Thanks to automation and AI, the number of programmers required to deliver on a project continues to fall over time

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The Indian IT and ITeS (IT-enabled services) industries are big. Clocking in over $150 billion in annual revenue, they are estimated to contribute nearly 8% to India’s GDP. They are also employment magnets, collectively employing nearly 4 million people.

They are also not in the pink of health. These industries are grappling with slowing revenue growth, layoffs, rising protectionism in markets like the US, and the ignominy of being bested at their own outsourcing game by competitors like Accenture.

And yet, TCS, the…

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