SPaMCAST 140 - Raja Bavani, The Ten Best Influences On Software Product Engineering

Published: June 26, 2011, 9 p.m.

Welcome to the Software Process and Measurement Cast 140!\n\nSPaMCAST 140 features my interview with Raja Bavani. \xa0We talked about his great article "." The article was originally publised in the SDTime \xa0This was a wide ranging interview went beyond influences and\xa0wrestles with the future! \xa0\nRaja Bavani is Technical Director of MindTree\u2019s Product Engineering Services (PES) group and plays the\xa0role of Product Engineering Evangelist and Agile Coach. He has more than 20 years of experience in the IT\xa0industry and has published papers at international conferences on topics related to Code Quality,\xa0Distributed Agile, Customer Value Management and Software Estimation. His PES experience started during\xa0the early 90s, when he was involved in porting a leading ERP product across various UNIX platforms. Later\xa0he moved onto products that involved data mining and master data management. During early 2000, he worked\xa0with some of the niche independent software vendors in the hospitality and finance domains. \xa0At MindTree,\xa0he has worked with some of the top vendors of virtualization platforms, business service management\xa0solutions and health care products.\xa0\nHis areas of interests include Global Delivery Model, Agile Software Development, Requirements\xa0Engineering, Software Architecture, Software Reuse, Customer Value Management, Knowledge Management, and\xa0IT Outsourcing. \xa0He is a member of IEEE and IEEE Computer Society. \xa0He regularly interfaces with\xa0educational institutions to offer guest lectures and writes for technical conferences.\nHis Product\xa0Engineering blog is available at http://www.mindtree.com/blogs/category/software-product-engineeringHis articles and white papers on Agile Software Development are available at: http://mindtree.com/category/tags/agileHe can be reached at raja_bavani@mindtree.comRaja's personal blog -\xa0 \xa0\n\nShameless Ad for my book!\xa0\nMastering Software Project Management: Best Practices, Tools and Techniques co-authored by Murali\xa0Chematuri and myself and published by J. Ross Publishing. We have received great unsolicited reviews and\xa0the book has been picked up as a text book for university level work. \xa0Have you bought your copy?\n\nContact information for the Software Process and Measurement CastEmail: \xa0spamcastinfo@gmail.comVoicemail: \xa0+1-206-888-6111Website: www.spamcast.netTwitter: www.twitter.com/tcagleyFacebook: \xa0http://bit.ly/16fBWV\nNext!\nSo you want to go agile . . .in the SPaMCAST 141 I will present a simple checklist of factors you need to\xa0deal with as you progress with change.