PMI India Champion Prabhu Prasad Mishra from CSM Technologies, in association with PMI West Bengal Chapter, organized a Learn and Earn session on 17 February in Bhubaneswar. Manoranjan Misra, executive engineer, works department, Government of Odisha, was the chief guest. Sunil Kumar Agrawala, founder and principal consultant, Bharati Consulting, and Shradha Padhi, associate professor, KIIT School of Management, were the speakers. PMI West Bengal Chapter president Sumit Kumar Sinha, and Amitabha Banerjee, chapter director - finance represented the chapter.

The first topic of discussion for the session was “An Insight into Critical Chain method,” in which the panel discussed challenges in typical scheduling techniques, concepts of project buffer and feeding buffer, scheduling using the critical chain method, and benefits of the critical chain method.

The second topic was “Ethics and Project Management,” in which discussions were around perceptions of ethical behavior by project managers in a software project and the impact of ethical behavior of Sumit Kumar Sinha felicitating Shradha Padhi project managers on project performance