Name: Chandika Mendis
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Bio: Vice President and Global Head of Engineering, Virtusa Corporation. Chandika Mendis is the Global Head of Engineering for Virtusa. The Software Engineering function at Virtusa consists of Global Technology and Architecture as well as the Independent Software Quality practice. In this role, he drives consistent standards and best practices as well as innovation, R&D and consulting/solutions in technology and testing areas. Chandika carries over 15 years of experience in IT. Prior to his current role, he has played many technology leadership roles both within and outside Virtusa. He was the Chief Software Architect for Global Software Labs, playing an instrumental role in setting up and leading their San Francisco operation. Prior to that, he worked for P&O Nedlloyd in London as part of their technical strategy team and for a German ISV startup in a General Management and Software Development Lead capacity. Chandika has a First Class honours from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and an MSc in Parallel Computers and Computation from University of Warwick, UK.
Posts by Chandika Mendis:
Agile Development: 7 Best Practices for Scale and Predictability
January 4th, 2012Agile is hot – and has been so for a while. The multitude of benefits offered by Agile, particularly its ability to bridge the Business – IT divide, has clients naturally gravitating towards it. Sadly, we’re also hearing horror stories, where agile development ended up being ‘fragile’, causing expensive project failures. The perfect storm is usually a combination of one or more factors: an offshore-based outsourcing model, ‘fixed price’ contracts, large engagements and even over-zealous customers and/or vendors with no prior experience with offshore agile. The question is, how do you setup agile projects to succeed under these kinds of complex environments? Read the rest of this entry “
