Web Application Development with Microsoft Technologies

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Last night I enjoyed a meeting in the Camara de Comercio building, here in Montevideo, with a group of young entrepreneurs from the Junior Chamber International  (JCI), Montevideo Chapter. 

I met with almost 15 young entrepreneurs who have a clear goal: have success in life. The group is organized by roles, and is working in several projects to develop their skills about leadership and entrepreneur. Some of them already have their own ideas and ongoing business and are trying to use the business network formed by JCI +200.000 members, who meet regularly all over the world. 

I was invited by Luciano Varela to spend some time with them talking about my experiences in leadership in my previous company (TCS) and my current challenges now at UruIT Global IT Services.  

Even when I am usually boring when talking about my past experiences, I wish to have added some value to my talk and to encourage this group to move forward. I hope they invite me to some of the trainings they organize to create leaders and CEOs, as I would like to improve my skills and also meet new people.  

Yesterday I met some guys who are currently leading their own projects related to IT (PHP and ERPs development), so overall this was a nice and very productive time.  

I wish this Uruguayan young team all the best in their initiatives !

Marcelo

PS: If you live in Montevideo, and you are between 20 and 40 years old with an entrepeneur spirit, just drop me a line and I will send you JCI Montevido Chapter email right away.

I have been involved in Software Development industry for more than 6 years now, and right now I am living a very challenging stage of my career.

During the last few years I had the chance to lead several teams of talented developers, which gave me invaluable experiences and a lot of exposure to software development processes.

 I have worked in a CMMI level 5 corporation for 3 years, and I remember being tired of following processes and completing documents with almost no tangible value for our projects but for the organization itself.

After attending to my PMP course last year, I understood that traditional development processes can be customized depending on the projects needs, and also learnt about the added value of performing some of the activities specified in the PM-Book (guide for project management in general).

Since working at UruIT Global IT Services, I have been trying to adapt the best of a traditional processes to our agile style of development. Why we need to be agile ? Because our customers expect deliveries soon, and because we are focused in using latest tools and technologies in our solutions, usually increasing risks.

However, I think that defining a procedure for identifying and monitoring risks, performing final revisions and a few quality assurance activities, estimating and monitoring costs, schedule or purchases, are helping us to have more profitable projects and satisfied customers every month.

This could be related to our customer profiles and team structure, but PMI suggested procedures are being adapted to our real needs with good results. I hope this PMP certification can help me to adapt more and more process to our organization, always with the goal of improving team productivity and customer satisfaction.

As a side note:

At the beginning, I was mentioning a challenging period in my career, and this is to the fact that I am developing other skills rather than development.

During the last year I have been working in Sales and Delivery Management, trying to reach more and more customers interested in our nearshore development services, and trying to deliver on time and with the desired quality.

This PMP certification is part of this process. I don’t have much time available during the week and weekends due to the overhead caused by my various job assignments, and I can spend some time reading blogs and news about emerging Microsoft technologies because it is part of my sales function, but I have almost no time for piloting them, except when meeting with our teams and architects.

This blog will then turn more to a personal blog, focused in best development practices, software entrepreneurs and live experiences, but also a few technology sharing.I consider myself as a lucky guy but also work committed and very entrepeneur, allowing me to reach the point where I am now, leading a company to a global vision, and helping talented individuals to reach their dreams.

I hope you get inspired from my stories from now onwards.

Cheers,
Marcelo