Personal Progress Development

Personal Progress Development

What is PPD?

 PPD stands for personal progress development

Why PPD?

Think about your degree program. After four year or three-year degree program definitely you are OK with academics.  But are you OK with personal skills? Sometimes it may be. Sometimes it may be not.

When we go to the industry after graduation if we have not personal qualifications, we will be failed at there. To be a talented person in the industry we must have academic qualifications and extra qualities simultaneously. We can complete our academics from lectures, practical sessions, workshops and self-studying.  How we complete our qualities. In our degree program, our academic coordinates have introduced us PPD sessions. It coordinates by Madame Sarasi Senadheera. She is very talented and an ideal lecturer for this work. She was graduated from University of Bangalore in India with Bachelor of Business Management. Also she was completed her Master of Business Administration in Glyndwr University, United Kingdom.  Also she is with seven years’ industrial experience with different organizations.

In this PPD sessions we have to complete lot of soft skills like below.

·         Communications skills

·         Leadership skills

·         Time management and ability to work under pressure

·         Creativity

·         Be professional person

·         Making decisions

·         Self-motivations

·         Team-working skills

·         Problem solving skills

·         How to work with minimum resources

·         Patience

·         Analytical skills

·         Flexibility

·         Presentation skills

·         Process information

·         Commitment

·         Negotiation skills

Those skills are very important to Software Engineers to work in professional persons and clients in the industry.

This video is discussing about communication skill. Communication skill is very important to a software engineer to get the requirements of the client.  

In this sessions we have to lot of team works. Also we have to keep summary of daily PPD sessions to present at the end of the semester. Also we have to do a CSR project here before end of the semester.

Chirantha Jananath -UG BSc (Hons Software Engineering)