Raja Bavani is Chief Architect of MindTree’s Product Engineering Services (PES) and IT Services... (ITS) groups and plays the role of agile evangelist. He has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry and has presented papers at international conferences on topics related to Code Quality, Distributed Agile, Customer Value Management and Software Estimation. His IT experience started during the early 90s, when he was involved in porting a leading ERP product across various UNIX platforms. Later he moved onto products that involved data mining and master data management. His areas of interests include Global Delivery Model, Agile Software Development, Requirements Engineering, Software Architecture, Software Reuse, Customer Value Management, Knowledge Management, and IT Outsourcing. He is a member of CSI, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society. He regularly interfaces with educational institutions to offer guest lectures and writes for technical conferences. Also, he writes for magazines such as Agile Record, Cutter IT Journal and SD Times.
He blogs on Distributed Agile at http://www.mindtree.com/blogs/author/raja-bavani
Raja's blog on Software Engineering and his articles and white papers are available at http://se-thoughtograph.blogspot.com
He can be reached at raja_bavani@mindtree.com