Rajalakshmi Suresh

• 8+ years of combined IT experience in Project Management, Test Management, Analysis, Reporting, Testing and support for SRM, Procurement and Sourcing applications.

• Strong exposure in preparation of Test strategy, Requirement Traceability Matrix, Test planning, Test execution and Test reporting.

• Having thorough knowledge in handling distributed Agile teams and Agile QA Process

• Good exposure to Scrum practices, sprint backlogs and automated tracking process

• Very good understanding of SDLC and STLC process

• Has good experience on Automation test process and tools – Winrunner, defining Automation Framework

• Good functional knowledge and QA experience, conversant with Configuration Management process

• Excellent Communication and Project Management skills that have been honed through managing multi skilled teams

• Very good hands on experience and expertise in using Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, Word and Business Objects.

• Effective mentoring, monitoring and motivating skills

• Perform under stress and tight schedules

• Quick learner, flexible and Adaptive

• Good understanding and experience in implementation of Knowledge Management Process.

Employer Ariba Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.

Title Group Lead - QA

Date of Employment Feb 2005 to Apr 2008

Employer Core Objects India Pvt. Ltd.

Title Product Engineer - QA

Date of Employment June 2004 to Feb 2005

Employer Ness Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.

Title Senior Software Engineer - QA

Date of Employment Jul 2003 to Jun 2004

Employer i2 Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.

Title Junior Engineer

Date of Employment Jan 2000 to Jul 2003

Rajalakshmi Suresh: rlakshmi_suresh@yahoo.com : 91-9845798042 ©: 91-80-41466542 ®

Abrachan Pudusserry

I am a SCRUM master, with around 20 years in software engineering, project management.

Qualification:

B.E ( Electrical engineering)
M.S ( Quality management)
Post graduate diploma in software engineering

Certifications:

CSM - Certified scrum master
PMP - Project management professional
PRINCE2 - PRINCE2 practitioner certified

Organizations worked:

Novell, HCL, KSB, OTE, TBN and played the roles of programmer, systems analyst, project manager, quality manager and profit center head.

Training programs architected and delivered

• Agile project management using SCRUM
  
• PMdistilled project management workshop
  

Trainings Conducted:

Agile project management using SCRUM at Oracle, Everett, Societe Genarale, Zerone Consulting, LG CNS, Amdocs, Sasken, Blue star, Accenture

IT project management using PMBOK at sasken, Blue star, PSI data systems, Tejari, Damac, HP

Trained around 1500 project managers on PMBOK based project management

Product development

While working at Novell, was part of the team which developed Pragati, and open source project management tool.

classTube and collabteam

Contact : abrachan@pmrinstitute.com
Phone : 0091 9895372115

Charudath Doddanakatte

He has a decade of experience in building software systems using Java technologies. His current interests are Model Driven Architecture, Graph Oriented Programming and Code Generation.

Having been engaged as a Manager, Architect and Developer in various projects with Mars Telecom, Revere, Cisco, Citigroup, Infosys, BEA, Doneware, Trigyn and Hexaware , he currently works as an Independent consultant in Bangalore.

The business model

In order to develop software, who all we need?.

We need programmers, testers, architects, functional experts and a customer who can spell out the requirements and pay for the work completed. This is the fundamental thought process behind all agile methodologies. These days organizations are busy reducing cost by issuing pink slips to the bottom layaer of the organization. What about an organization without the top and the middle layers, which can churn out quality software at rock bottom prices with the required quality. Workootam is all about that. An organization without brick and mortar and without the top layer and at the same time accountable to the customer.

The backbone of workootam is a set of hand picked programmers, testers and architects, who will follow a common methodology for project execution (SCRUM methodology - the team will use collabteam tool for project execution).

Customers can post their requirements and the team will estimate and submit a proposal. Once the proposal is agreed by the customer, the team and the customer will get into the project planning exercise (product backlog, sprint planning). Based on the agreed upon sprints, the team delivers.

Teams may work from their own premises or from the customer's site.

There are lot of freelancer sites and at the same time, there is none which provides a project management methodology and commitment on deliveries. This is the USP for workootam.

Team member selection is based on referrals and interviews.

How workootam is different from open source?

Strictly speaking, open source is one type of licence for software. Since the product is built by a set of volunteers (developers), some times people mistake 'open source' to distributed development. Since it is done by volunteers at their own convenience and pace, meeting deadlines and assured post delivery support is a a major issue. Contrary to the open source kind of development teams, workootam is a set of  hand picked developers (referrals plus interview process), who are contractually bound to deliver stuff on time with the required quality. Workootam as a corporate entity is contractually bound to the customer and at the same time gets rid of the expensive top layer of the organization. When most of the organizations are trying to cut costs by reducing the lowest layer, workootam is all about reducing cost by working from locations of the contributors convenience or from low cost work centers and with a flat structure. 

About workootam

Workootam - is an experimental concept to develop software in distributed environment without a formal corporate structure and at the same time without diluting time lines, quality and accountability of work. Once formed, workootam will comprise of a network of coders, designers, domain specialists, technical mentors, project managers and customers working on committed project deadlines. The whole concept will be implemented through CollabTeam as the project management platform, which is based on scrum methodology.