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using Agile methods. In India, the company was established in 2001, with offices in Bangalore and Pune, and today its is one of the most influential high-end IT service providers in India with primary focus on providing high value and quality consulting services. According to Mr. Chaitanya Nadkarny, Director -HR and Recruitments, ThoughtWorks India, has pioneered the concept of Distributed Agile Development and Offshore Agile Delivery. ThoughtWorks India consistently contributes to industry thought leadership through significant contributions to the Open Source community.
On global level, ThoughtWorks has developed a global reputation as a thought leader in complex custom software development, testing and the practical application of Agile development methods on enterprise client projects. This reputation has been earned in large part through its extensive body of published works, analyst reputation, broader community involvement and ultimately its people and their ability to solve complex business problems through technical innovation.
Speaking about the performance of the company Mr. Chaitanya Nadkarny, says, “ThoughtWorkers thrive on learning and applying next generation technologies quickly and effectively. This passion for new technologies is balanced by an unflagging pragmatism: the company-wide commitment to building quality software and delivering solutions that create clear and unparalleled business value for clients.”
Service Offering
In India, ThoughtWorks has taken an innovative approach to provide service its customers. Its engagement experience spans distributed, offshore and multi-vendor models and the employment of any of these models is based on the requirements of its clients. Following are some of the services that are offered by the company to its clients:
Delivery of Bespoke Applications
• Solutions to a wide variety of business domains including Financial and Banking services, Retail, Asset Leasing, Insurance, Healthcare and Entertainment.
• Setup & manage large IT programmes to support multi-vendor delivery models
- Offshore Agile Testing which includes independent validation and verification of software applications and building of Test Automation Suites
Consulting Services
- Advice on architectural and technical aspects of enterprise level I.T solutions
- Assessment of existing software delivery practices and recommendations to improve productivity and quality using Agile best practices
Agile Transformation
• Enablement of offshore delivery units on Agile best practices
• Enablement of offshore captive I.T units on Agile best practices
Operating in the competitive Indian environment
Right from the beginning, India has always remained a very complex market to deal. In order to sustain and grow into the competitive ambience of Indian market, ThoughtWorks has always delivered highly business critical and complex applications using cutting edge technologies and pioneering developing methodologies. Speaking about the Indian operation Mr. Chaitanya Nadkarny , says, “We also service many companies in the Indian market – predominantly other large IT companies – in the areas of introducing Agile methodologies, in improving their project team productivity and in the application of advanced software development techniques in their projects.”
Core Strength of ThoughtWorks
• Approach to software delivery through adoption of Agile best practices, and tools
• Exclusive focus on application development and integration;
• Thought leadership and expertise in established technologies (Java/J2EE, .NET, SOA)
• Early adoption and contribution to emerging technologies (Ruby/RoR) and
• Unique congregation of people driven by passion for technology and delivery of early business value
The company has achieved all the above by implementing both development and process best-practices such as automated testing, continuous integration, application of patterns, iterative development and periodic retrospectives.
In order to deliver better service to its clients, ThoughtWorks believes in partnering with technology firms in areas where it has industry leading expertise with their technologies. This enables the company to provide superior advice and consulting to companies using those technologies. For example ThoughtWorks has been very early adopters and pioneers of J2EE and .Net technologies and have partnered with their founding companies in bringing our expertise to many Global 1000 clients.
Finally..
In the five years of its existence in India , ThoughtWorks has grown into a full service organization capable of providing application services, advisory and consulting services to its clients – both domestic and international. The plan of the company for 2007 is to further strengthen its offshore capability with a near doubling of its workforce in India , with increased services being provided to Indian companies and increased contribution to technological advances in the IT space through branded and Open Source Software products. |
