Kuntal Thakore

 Kuntal Thakore, PMP, CSM has 15 years of experience working on projects in Software Industry covering areas of Customer Service, Quality Assurance, IT Administration and Software Development. Kuntal is Co-Director of PMI Silicon Valley CM chapter. Kuntal has managed and participated in IT and Software Development projects ranging in size of a small team to large corporate-wide projects. He is able to build cross-functional teams, negotiate various levels of hierarchy, and apply his experience to small and large businesses alike. He has strong project management and customer centric skills with strong technical background to work cross functionally to resolve customer issues. He can be contacted at bkthakore@gmail.com.

Core Competency – A Critical Success Factor

Core Competency - A Critical Success Factor

Core competencies are the skills that enable the business to deliver a fundamental customer benefit. It is what causes customers to choose one product over the other. To identify core competencies in a particular company, ask questions such as “why is the customer willing to pay more or less for products or service from one [...]

Avoiding Problem Of Padding

Avoiding Problem Of Padding

A project manager friend of mine recently transitioned into software industry from hardware manufacturing. He was complaining about the problems he’s been having to come up with good schedule for mid-size software project.
Specifically, he was referring to the problem of padding in estimation for tasks. Being new to software industry, he was not sure whether [...]

Importance of Team Agreements

Importance of Team Agreements

I had one more opportunity to volunteer at PMI Silicon Valley chapter this week. During breakout session, one of the project managers described problems he was having with his team members. He was describing how team members are having conflicts during meetings and their impact on the project. After further discussions with this project [...]

Is Mind Map useful for Risk Management?

Is Mind Map useful for Risk Management?

As a member of PM PM SIG group, I recently attended breakfast session on Using Mind Maps for Risk Management.  The presentation was good. It would have been even better if presenter’s brand new laptop worked to display his slides/Mind Map templates. We ended up spending quite a bit of time out of an hour [...]