Eponential increase!

Right after our noon walks

Since the beginning of this week Erin, Sanketi and I have been taking 5-10 min walks after lunch. After 4 hours of lectures and a heavy lunch, this walk helps us stay awake for the rest of the day. We have been at the office for about 9 hours everyday and have meetings once we get back to the hotel. Basically we have been working for about 12 hours minimum each day..

The past 4 days, we have had workshops and training sessions on Project Management, Finance and various other tools to analyze and mitigate risks. Until recently I was under the impression that project management is fairly less intense when compared to code development and that one needs good communication skills to get the job done.. But after attending the training sessions, I have learnt that project management is the most difficult role in project development. You are held responsible for anything and everything since you are the owner of the project..

We have been given a case study on a real-time ongoing project at Citigroup. We are supposed to come up with a TG4 pitch by next week.. i.e. figure out the project requirements, risk analysis and financial projections for the next 5 years in order to convince the management to invest $Billions in this project. There are a total of 8 teams working on this. Its a very competitive work environment and like our instructor says we are trying to complete “An unachievable task with an immovable deadline”. We have a total of 5 weeks to finish the project along with code development, testing and deployment. We are already in Week 1 and are nowhere near completing 1/5^th of the project!

When the TLPs of 2006 batch told me that the Bootcamp is torturously hectic, I thought they were exaggerating.. Now I am beginning to realize how hectic the next 4 weeks are going to be.