The eMedha Paradigm by Rakesh Misra

A lot of books with a price tag of Rs.100 seem to haunt the city bookstores now. eMedha is one such book. The author, Rakesh Misra, worked with Infosys for nine years and then quit to be an entrepreneur. He feels project management in IT companies is highly mismanaged. So, he has penned a new project management philosophy named eMedha and brought it out via an interesting IT story for context.

eMedha is an Acronym for Rakesh's project management strategy:

e- Empowering Ambience ~ An empowering ambiance is hardly acceptable to the control freaks who believe in vertically aligned hierarchies. But, hierarchy has no relevance today as omnipresent Internet has democratized the corporate ecosystem, globally.

M - Manageble Targets ~ Unmanageable targets leads to missed-out deadlines, blame-storming sessions, and messy solutions. Therefore, accept targets that can be reached with everyone's best efforts pooled in.

E- Entrepreneurial Attitude ~ Ownership of projects reduces indifference. 

D - Decisive Mindset ~ A single person's decision may upset a complex web of unexposed systems. So, decisions have to be made at the right time and right place. Even if later on they are owned, disowned, rejoiced, or whatever.

H - Heuristic Approach ~ The human mind that asynchronously makes human connections, stores bits of information, and experiences comes in handy during a crisis.

A - Attainable Quality ~ Quality measures are in a mess, while PR team keeps advertising best-in-class solutions. It is better to decide quality measures on a project-to-project basis.

Now read the book for an exciting background story of a mismanaged project, paranormal situations, and catchy presentation of content.