Sundara Kaanda of Maha Rushi Vaalmiki

Murali Chemuturi is a consultant on information technology and manage- ment, author and trainer. In 2001, he formed his own IT consulting and software development firm known as Chemuturi Consultants. Chemuturi Consultants help organizations achieve their management, process definition and improvement, quality and value objectives. The firm provides training in several software engineering and management topics. His firm also offers a number of products to aid project managers and software development pro- fessionals such as PMPal, a software project management tool; EstimatorPal, a software estimation tool and MRPPal, a comprehensive tool for material management. Prior to starting his own firm, Murali is an industry veteran in various engineering, manufacturing and information technology management posi- tions. He gained more than 49 years of information technology and software development experience. His final position prior to forming his firm was Vice President of Software Development at Vistaar e-Businesses Pvt., Ltd. In all, he worked in professional organizations for 31 years and as a consultant for the past 18 years. Mr. Chemuturi's undergraduate degrees and diplomas are in Electrical and Industrial Engineering and he holds an MBA and a post-graduate diploma in Computer Methods & Programming. He has several years of academic experience teaching a variety of IT and management courses. The manage- ment courses he handles are operations management, management infor- mation and control systems, marketing and market research, productivity, materials management and project management besides soft skills. Murali is a member of IEEE, a senior member of the Computer Society of India and a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Industrial Engineering, and he is a well-published author in professional journals. He had authored seven books on software estimation, software quality assurance, IT project management, software design, programming, requirements engineering and management. He co-authored one book on software project management with Thomas M. Cagley, Jr. He contributed chapters in four books.