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From the News Desk
Friday, 27. April 2007
Thoughtworks to Expand India Operations
Thoughtworks, an application development & consultancy organisation, has plans to expand its operations in India.
The company already has an operations unit in Bangalore, which has a headcount of 200 people. The entire organisation employs 800 people, which is inclusive of the 200 Indians. The unit at Bangalore was inaugurated in 2002. The company also set up a facility in Pune earlier this year.
The company plans to inaugurate a third office in India, within the next twelve months.
Derek Walsh, vice president Operations, Thoughtworks Studios said, "Thoughtworks has been operating in India for 5 years, and there has been an interesting evolution. Initially we were serving a lot of US & UK & Australian clients. But we have developed more & more in terms of consulting with India clients."
Walsh declared that India would lead the world in software development practices.
Mingle, the first product from ThoughtWorks Studios, is a software application that offers IT departments improved management of Agile IT projects. According to Walsh, "Mingle will be applicable to a number of organisations that are developing software. It will also have lots of usage outside of pure software development as well. It can also be installed for a number of activities where planning, reporting & tracking of activities is important. Predominantly for software development communities, it could of interest for other communities as well."
He also informed, "Academicians and non-profit organisations will have free usage of Mingle. But the actual usage of Mingle will be a commercial license; we will not be open sourcing it."
"Thoughtworks is an organically grown, privately held organisation. We are heading towards a sort of collective ownership in the organisation by the employees. In terms of acquisitions, we have a number of partners to work with globally. We have no acquisition plans at present," he said.
ThoughtWorks Architect Neal Ford will be talking at the JAX India 2007 conference. His talk will discusses a wide swath of topics, including good citizenship, appropriate messaging between objects, canonicality, reflection & code generation, improving your abstractions via domain specific languages, sacred cows, code generation, common code smells, and anti-objects. The goal is to make you think differently about the code you write every day. No one writes perfect code, and every developer eventually falls into a slump where they just crank out the same code day after day. At JAX India 2007, Neal Ford’s talk will help identify your pitfalls and how to avoid them. The session will also discuss Good citizenship, Sacred cows (including getter/setters, test names, and others), Methods & messaging, Canonicality (The Don't Repeat Yourself principle from the Pragmatic Programmer), Mixins and Aspects, Reflection, Code generation, Abstraction upgrade via DSLs, Common code smells (including helper classes, procedural programming, and others), and Anti-objects, with lots of examples.
Related Links
JAX India 2007
Enterprise Architecture Conference India 2007
Eclipse Forum India 2007
Registration
Conference Timetable
The company already has an operations unit in Bangalore, which has a headcount of 200 people. The entire organisation employs 800 people, which is inclusive of the 200 Indians. The unit at Bangalore was inaugurated in 2002. The company also set up a facility in Pune earlier this year.
The company plans to inaugurate a third office in India, within the next twelve months.
Derek Walsh, vice president Operations, Thoughtworks Studios said, "Thoughtworks has been operating in India for 5 years, and there has been an interesting evolution. Initially we were serving a lot of US & UK & Australian clients. But we have developed more & more in terms of consulting with India clients."
Walsh declared that India would lead the world in software development practices.
Mingle, the first product from ThoughtWorks Studios, is a software application that offers IT departments improved management of Agile IT projects. According to Walsh, "Mingle will be applicable to a number of organisations that are developing software. It will also have lots of usage outside of pure software development as well. It can also be installed for a number of activities where planning, reporting & tracking of activities is important. Predominantly for software development communities, it could of interest for other communities as well."
He also informed, "Academicians and non-profit organisations will have free usage of Mingle. But the actual usage of Mingle will be a commercial license; we will not be open sourcing it."
"Thoughtworks is an organically grown, privately held organisation. We are heading towards a sort of collective ownership in the organisation by the employees. In terms of acquisitions, we have a number of partners to work with globally. We have no acquisition plans at present," he said.
ThoughtWorks Architect Neal Ford will be talking at the JAX India 2007 conference. His talk will discusses a wide swath of topics, including good citizenship, appropriate messaging between objects, canonicality, reflection & code generation, improving your abstractions via domain specific languages, sacred cows, code generation, common code smells, and anti-objects. The goal is to make you think differently about the code you write every day. No one writes perfect code, and every developer eventually falls into a slump where they just crank out the same code day after day. At JAX India 2007, Neal Ford’s talk will help identify your pitfalls and how to avoid them. The session will also discuss Good citizenship, Sacred cows (including getter/setters, test names, and others), Methods & messaging, Canonicality (The Don't Repeat Yourself principle from the Pragmatic Programmer), Mixins and Aspects, Reflection, Code generation, Abstraction upgrade via DSLs, Common code smells (including helper classes, procedural programming, and others), and Anti-objects, with lots of examples.
Related Links
JAX India 2007 Enterprise Architecture Conference India 2007 Eclipse Forum India 2007 Registration Conference Timetable
