Murali chemuturi

Murali Krishna Chemuturi
Born	June 28, 1950(1950-06-28) Chityala, India
Residence	India
Nationality	Indian
Ethnicity	Telugu
Citizenship	India
Alma mater	Osmania University, Hyderabad
Known for	Software Size Units Software Test Units Measurement of Customer Satisfaction using Internal Data Composite Product Quality Rating and software productsPMPal, EstimatorPal, and MRPPal

Murali Krishna Chemuturi (popularly known as Murali Chemuturi) (born June 28, 1950) is an Indian software development expert. He has authored four books, three on software development management and one on personality engineering. He has also published a number of papers in journals and on the Internet.

Life and work

Born in Chityala, State of Andhra Pradesh, India, Murali Chemuturi studied Electrical Engineering at SMVM Polytechnic, Tanuku, followed by Industrial Engineering from Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering and PG Diploma in Computer Methods and Programming from AP Productivity Council. He finished academics with MBA from the College of Commerce and Business Management of Osmania University Hyderabad.

He started working at Electronics Corporation of India Limited, Tata Consultancy Services, Metamor Global Solutions at Hyderabad, and Vistaar eBusinesses Private Limited, Mumbai. He started Chemuturi Consultants in 2001. He had an impressive career starting in a humble position and rose to be the Vice-President of a software development organization.

Among his contributions to software development methodology are the Software Size Units, for measuring the size of software product. SSU unlike the other units of measure does not use complexity for adjusting the software size. Software Test Units for measuring the size of software testing projects. Composite Product Quality Rating (CPQR), for measuring the quality of a software product delivered under an outsourcing mode of software development; and the Measurement of Customer Satisfaction using Internal Data which can be used for measuring quantitatively the customer satisfaction for software development projects which would provide a realistic metric depicting the true customer satisfaction. All these are detailed in his books listed under references section.

He authored two books, namely, Software Estimation: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques. A complete Guide for Software Project Estimators and Software Quality Assurance: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques for Software Developers published by J.Ross Publishing, Inc. of Florida, USA. He co-authored with Thomas M. Cagley, Jr.a third book Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques published by J.Ross Publishing, Inc. of Florida, USA. His fourth book Success in Life through Personality Engineering co-authored with Ronda Lee Roberts was published by CreateSpace of Amazon.com along with a Kindle edition. He also authored a number of papers which were published in journals such as Computer Society of India Journal, Industrial Engineer, the journal of American Institute of Industrial Engineering, Technology Evaluation Centers News Letter. Most of his papers and podcasts are available from chemuturi.com, brighthub.com, scribd.com, and freethoughtnation.com.

Murali Chemuturi worked on Software Development Effort Estimation and Software Project Management which were captured in books. He is known for his pioneering work on Test Effort.

He worked on all aspects of information technology including software development, data processing, training as well as facility management.

Awards and Honors

• Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers [1] - 2010,
• Senior Member of Computer Society of India [2] - 1998,
• Fellow of Industrial Engineering from Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering [3] - 1997,

Writings by Murali Chemuturi

References

Books written by Murali Chemuturi

• Murali Chemuturi, Book - Software Estimation: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques, year=2009, publisher - J.Ross Publishing, Inc, USA, ISBN=9781604270242, Pages=298, [4]

• Book - Murali Chemuturi, Mastering Software Quality Assurance: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques, Year=2009, Publisher=J.Ross Publishing, Inc, USA, ISBN -978-1-60427-032-7, Pages=376, [5]

• Book - Murali Chemuturi, Mastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored with Thomas M. Cagley, Jr., 2010, J.Ross Publishing, Inc, USA, ISBN - 978-1-60427-034-1, Pages=408, [6]

• Book - Murali Chemuturi, Success in Life through Personality Engineering co-authored with Ronda Lee Roberts, Jr., 2011, CreateSpace, USA, ISBN - 978-1-46373-084-0, Pages=236, [7]

• Murali Chemuturi, Chapter "Software Estimation – A Practitioner's Perspective", in the book "Software Quality: The Road Ahead", published by Tata McGraw Hill Education Private Limited, India, 2011, ISBN # 978-0-07-107816-9

• Murali Chemuturi, Chapter "Impact of COPQ on Capacity Utilization", in the book "Cost of Poor Quality: Concept and Application", published by ICFAI University Press, India, 2008

• Murali Chemuturi, Chapter {{web | [8] Author Central page on amazon.com

• Murali Chemuturi, Chapter {{web | http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/chemuturi/lists/1592029] Author page on worldcat.org

• Murali Chemuturi, Paper {{web | [9] ICPM (International Community of Project Managers

Papers in Journals

Chemuturi, Murali. "Measure out Costs". Industrial Engineer of IIE, November 2010, USA, [10]. 

Chemuturi, Murali. "Test Effort Estimation". Jiurnal of Computer Society of India, February 2007. 

Chemuturi, Murali; Trivikrama, Murthy. "Are we getting the right participants to our training programmes?". Journal of Indian Society for Training and Development, India, October 1993. 

Chemuturi, Murali. "How to Measure Customer Satisfaction". Newsletter of Technology Evaluation Centers, Canada, April 2008. 

Chemuturi, Murali. "What is Concurrent Testing?". Newsletter of Software Test Pro, USA, July 2011. 

Persondata
Name	Chemuturi, Murali
Alternative names	Murali Krishna Chemuturi
Short description	Software Development Expert
Date of birth	June 28, 1950(1950-06-28)
Place of birth	Chityala
Date of death
Place of death