Ms. Alpana Gautamis presently working as an Infrastructure Service Manager. She is a technocrat with 13 years of rich experience in the IT/Telecom sector, with a variety of roles in transition / operations/ support, process expert and project manager.

The session was focused on project lifecycle and the stages that are included in it i.e., initiation, planning, execution, monitoring & control. She also discussed the project triple constraint i.e., time, scope, cost and how a manager uses these constraints for the betterment of the organization and the stakeholder. And in the end Ms. Alpana discussed some of the common techniques for project planning which are helpful in Breakdown structure, Gantt chart, Kanban, Analogous Estimation, Parametric Estimation, Bottom-up Estimation, Critical Path Method (CPM), Program Evaluation; Review Technique (PERT).

Q/A round was held at the end where the speaker cleared all the queries of the students regarding project management. It was an engrossing lecture. The event concluded with the presentation of virtual plaques as a token of gratitude and remembrance to the guest speaker Ms. Alpana Gautam.