Leading a 14-member team while still a student
Trophy and certificate of merit at Vividhotsava 2025 Originally published at https://pranjulrathour.scult.in/blog/leading-a-14-member-team-as-a-student . That copy is the canonical version and gets updates first. At SCULT INDIA I led a 14-member cross-functional team — engineering, architecture, UI/UX, deployment and client delivery — while still a BCA student. Nobody teaches this in college, and most of what I know about it I learned by getting it wrong in front of people who were counting on me. Here is what worked, for students who find themselves leading before they feel ready. Ownership in writing Every project had one named owner per area, written where everyone could see it. When ownership was implied, work fell between people; when it was written, it got done or someone asked for help. The same rule made TechVerse Enclave's tracks function. Pranjul Rathour Weekly demos, not status meetings Fifteen minutes each Friday: show what runs. Not slides, not percentages — the ...