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Is India Democratic Monarchy?

Every MP in the Lok Sabha or the lower house of the Indian parliament under the age of 30 had inherited a seat. More than two thirds of the 66 MPs aged 40 or under are hereditary MPs. Every Congress MP under the age of 35 was a hereditary MP. Nearly 40% of the 66  ministers who are members of the Lok Sabha  were hereditary members. Nearly 70% of the women MPs have family connections. More details -  http://www.theindiasite.com/family-politics/

Risk Management and Deliberate Ignorance of Project Managers

Introduction Software projects are complex technological projects in a way that each project is unique and thus has its own risk. This paper tries to find if risk management best practices as defined by project management frameworks and literatures are sufficient in real world projects. The report starts with defining software projects and risk management. In second section the paper tries to answer if risk management policy defined in literature is sufficient in practice and if software managers should try to implement or not. The last section takes real life case study of miss-managing risk in software project and its implication. In the end the paper tries to find balance between literary view of risk management with practical view by software developers and managers. Software Projects and Risk Management Software project is the work undertaken to specify, design, develop, test and implement a new software solution for the client (internal or external). Unlike any other industrial p...