Fourth Quarter - 2006 (October - December 2006)

Knowledge Sharing sessions of 4th quarter 2006:

• Date: 13-Oct-2006

Topic of the session: 'Innovations in Training & Learning'.
Speaker: Ms. Nalini Marthi, CMD of MeritScholar IT Solutions.

• Date: 6-Nov-2006

Topic: "Overview of Agile-Scrum"
Speaker: Mr. Amir Kolsky, Sr. Consultant of Net Objectives, Microsoft

• Date: 30-Nov-2006

Topic: "Risk Monitoring using Project Metrics"
Speaker:Mr. Sridhar Chakravarthi, CEO, Sridhar's Quality Academy

CSQA training sessions
CSQA trainings were conducted in the last quarter for the Dec exam. The faculty
were -

• Anumodu Paul
• Komal Mathur
• Seshu Babu Kuppa
• Seema Kalwani
• Prasanna Kumar Mamidala
• Dr. Neeta Gulati
• Maneesha Josyula
• Ashok Shashikanth

HYDSPIN Conference
Pre-Conference Tutorials were conducted on 6-Oct-2006, on the Theme "Effective Project Management".
Topics of tutorials:

• Application of Statistics for Quantitative Project Management
• Mr. Krishna Kishore
• Full Day Tutorial
• Estimation Techniques for Effective Project Management
• Ms. Bharathi Vasantha Krishnan
• Half Day Tutorial
• Usage of Earned Value Methodology in Quantitative Project Management
• Mr. Puthucode Ganesh
• Half Day Tutorial

HYDSPIN Conference was conducted on 7-Oct-2006, and the Theme of the conference was "Business Excellence through Process Improvement"
Chief Guest of the Conference – Mr. Moorthy K. Uppaluri, Managing Director, Global Delivery Centre, Microsoft India (R&D) Pvt Ltd.
Guest Lecture – "Role of Process Improvement in Business" by Mr. Satish Tumu, Principal Consultant & MD of Concept QA Labs
Guest Lecture – "Integration of Process Models" by Mr. Prakasa Rao, Consultant & Lead Auditor
There was a Panel Discussion conducted with 3 speakers

• Mr. AV Ramam, VP of Invensys, President of PMI, VP of HYSEA
• N G Raju, Member of Quality Forum, Nasscom
• Mr. Amarnath Rao, Chairman of CSI, H'bad chapter

Moderator being the found of HYDSPIN Mr. B S Gandhi
There were paper presentations by Software organization members on selected Best practices.

• A presentation by Taral Nihar Desai & Kshitij Kamal of Infosys Technologies Ltd on "Business Benefits through BrITe(tm) Implementation"
• A presentation by Sanjiv Varma of Satyam Computer Services Ltd on "PMO set up using Solution Analysis"
• A presentation by Sridhar Mulakaluri of Sridhar's Quality Academy on "Risk based Process Management"
• A presentation by Karthik Siva Subramanian of Invensys Development Centre India Pvt. Ltd on "Improving Quality in the Software Development Process: A Practical Approach"
• A presentation by Mohamed Ali Anfal & Elamvazhuthi Ganesan of Sierra Atlantic Software Services Ltd on "Portal Certification"

Annual Day 2006: 
Annual Day was celebrated in Kamat Lingapur hotel on 16-Dec-2006

• After Registrations for next year membership, the annual day started by welcoming the Chief Guest. The Annual updates were presented by HYDSPIN coordinator
• Key note address given by Chief Guest Mr. Narasimha, Head of Infosys, H'bad
• A presentation on best practice by Mr. Rammohan of Convergys on "Test Process Improvement"
• A presentation on best practice by Mr. Lalit Shah of Infosys, "Requirements Engineering & Requirements Analysis in Large, Complex projects".
• A presentation on best practice by Gayatri Panakanti & Renuka Sekhar of Sierra on "Training Zone - A Micro Site of the Training Department"
• After Memento distribution to faculty of the year, Vote of thanks was given by the President of HYDSPIN, after announcing the next year 2006 coordinator and support coordinators.