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PMI Pune-Deccan India Chapter organized two seminars at Cummins Auditorium on April 10. The seminars included topics like current trends in IT- enabled solutions in disaster management services, and building more effective cross-cultural distributed teams.
PMI Pearl City Chapter (PMIPCC), Hyderabad
4/10/2010PMI Pune-Deccan India Chapter organized two seminars at Cummins Auditorium on April 10. The seminars included topics like current trends in IT- enabled solutions in disaster management services, and building more effective cross-cultural distributed teams.
The seminars were spearheaded by Dr. Parag Mankeekar and Dr. Urvashi Rathod respectively. Dr. Mankeekar, a medical doctor and anthropologist covered a social software gaming area, wherein he discussed a peace building and culture-sensitive game named ‘Real Lives’ developed by Neeti Solutions.
He also discussed the various trends and opportunities in IT, helping business in a social environment.
The second seminar discussed how factoring in cultural characteristics of team members helps in building more effective cross-cultural distributed teams.
This was conducted by Dr. Rathod, a Ph.D. in software engineering from BITS, Pilani.