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Markets, customers, and industries are moving quickly. Rapid application development is a strategic necessity. But, rapid application development techniques require rapid estimation and planning techniques. Business demands for improved time-to-market means your teams must estimate, plan, and budget application development projects with greater speed and accuracy.

• Estimate application development projects in hours, not weeks
• Quickly and confidently enter feature negotiation with customers
• Envision a consistent estimation and budgeting process for your teams
• Bridge the gap between Agile-oriented and Plan-driven estimation
• Understand how to build practical, repeatable work plans

Sunjay Pandey is the President & Managing Partner of ALTERthought, a boutique technology/strategy consultancy and concept development lab. He possesses hands-on and General Management and Technology skill sets encompassing Strategy, Marketing, Business Development, Finance, Operations, Business Analysis, Project Management, Mentoring/Education.

Sunjay's industry exposure includes: Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Online Gaming, Internet Media/Advertising, Telecommunications, Enterprise Software, and Software-as-a-Service. His notable company exposure includes: Wachovia, Keane Consulting, CapitalOne, Circuit City, Anthem BCBS, Verizon, AOL, Advertising.com, and Bank of America.

Sunjay was responsible for leading ALTERthought's leadership team to envision, articulate and execute the business strategy for the firm  leading to an expansion of the consulting business as well as the investment/ development of two Software-as-a-Service concepts: Planix: http://planixonline.com – IT Estimation & Project Management and Oyogi: http://oyogi.com – Enterprise Knowledge Networking via Instant Messaging. He was also responsible for helping to identify, shape, and negotiate a Joint Venture to launch a spin-out algorithmic hedge fund: Canal Street Capital. He has served in a Program Management role for successful online advertising company acquired by AOL, Led the build out and re-engineering as Interim CTO for successful on-line gaming company acquired in 2005.  

He possesses a BA in English from Appalachian State University and an MS in the Management of Information Technology from The University of Virginia.