Name: Madu Ratnayake
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Bio: Vice President and General Manager Virtusa Corporation. Madu is the head of Sri Lanka Advanced Technology Center of Virtusa. He is a core member of the Management Team at Virtusa from its inception and plays a number of leadership roles in multiple areas including the Global Head of Quality for Virtusa. Madu is the co-founder and General Secretary of SLASSCOM, the national association of the IT/BPO Industry in Sri Lanka. He also plays an advisory role in a number of government forums and represents the IT industry on a number of Boards of leading Universities. He is also a board member of the Sarvodaya Fusion Organization, which is the ICT Development arm of Sarvodaya. Madu is a Chartered Engineer, holds an MBA from The Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM) and an Honors Degree in Software Engineering from City University, London.
Posts by Madu Ratnayake:
The Five Factors of Agile Suitability
June 29th, 2010Agile is here to stay. With its emphasis on lightweight processes, high-quality deliverables, flexibility in dealing with changing business priorities, short delivery cycles, higher team morale, and a whole host of other benefits, agile development offers a fresh approach to businesses seeking greater agility in their software engineering processes.
Agile over traditional practices brings in significant value; however our experience indicates that it is no silver bullet for the ills of enterprise application development. Agile practices are developed based on several fundamental assumptions about the environment within which the project is executed. In the right context, all promises of agile come alive; in the wrong context agile can add significant risks to the successful delivery of an engagement. Especially in a global delivery environment, careful consideration of risk factors helps you avoid potential significant failures. Read the rest of this entry “
