Are IT project managers facing an existential crisis? | The Hindu Parley podcast

December 10, 2020 09:13 pm | Updated May 11, 2021 04:42 pm IST

Despite the years of experience and expertise that the middle management layer brings to the Indian IT services industry, it has been facing an existential crisis for a while now. Stories abound of clients preferring senior code writers over project managers, and of tech CEOs aiming  the axe at this layer first every time a sizeable lay off is planned. The pandemic has not made it any easier.

Have enough project managers made the change to agile methodologies that steer clear of the traditional, and sequential, more rigid ‘waterfall’ approach while working with clients? Here we discuss the question about their future.

 

Guests: Srini Srinivasan, Managing Director, PMI South Asia; R. Srikrishna, CEO and Executive Director, Hexaware Technologies.

Host: K. Bharat Kumar

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