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Dharmarajan SitaramanDharmarajan SitaramanDharmarajan SitaramanDharmarajan SitaramanDharmarajan Sitaraman

MD, ThoughtWorks India

Hello!

At Thoughtworks India, we are on a journey to build a unique offshore software

development organization that is focused on delivering challenging, complex and

business critical software.

We bring some significant differentiators to the offshore marketplace. As early adopters

of Agile and Lean methodologies, we have fine-tuned and evolved these practices to

suit an offshore setting. We have relentlessly focused on creating an organization full

of exceptionally talented people who are passionate about software delivery. We have

created a culture that frees our people to learn and experiment, share ideas and

innovate daily in a way that creates huge value for our customers. This combination

of people, process and culture provides us with a sustainable competitive advantage and

enables us to continuously make progress on our mission to revolutionize the IT

industry.

As you get ready to make this vibrant organization your home, I have a few tips that

may be helpful:

Have high expectations. Set a high bar for yourself and for everyone around you.

Focus relentlessly on customers. Sophisticated understanding of our customer's

world is vital to our success, both as individuals and as an organization.

All of our actions should reflect our integrity as people - always behave with

integrity with our customers, and between ourselves as a community.

Learn constantly, innovate everyday and be passionate about software and the

world around you.

Have loads of fun.

Welcome Home!

Foreword


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Roy SinghamRoy SinghamRoy SinghamRoy SinghamRoy Singham

Founder, ThoughtWorks

ThoughtWorks - More Than A Business

Iheard a speech in the early 1990s by Dee Hock, the founder of Visa. He had said that

if the 19th century was manufacturing and hardware, the 21st century was going to be the

century of thoughtware. I thought of creating something on these lines that uses heart and

head more than anything else. We thought of putting ideas into practice and so the company

ThoughtWorks was born.

At ThoughtWorks, we believe that human beings are fundamentally social. We are both

competitive and collaborative at the same time. At ThoughtWorks we are creating an

environment where the brightest and best can work together collaboratively. We think we

know the answer to what people want. They want to be in a place where they can feel

productive, where they can work in teams and yet individually contribute at high levels. To

say that ThoughtWorks is Roys Company is just not true anymore since there are so

many revolutionary people who have added their DNA to the organization. We are evolving

and growing at a fast pace and India plays a major role in this.

By moving ThoughtWorks training here, we have proved that our India office is not an

appendage of the company, but a very critical part. I strongly believe that the future of the

21st century is India and China. In the next 10 years we will become more of the pioneering

thought leaders. Our goal is not to be the biggest, but to be the most influential. I am sure

this book will give you a sneak peek into who we are and what we do.

Till next time, Adios!


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Matt SimonsMatt SimonsMatt SimonsMatt SimonsMatt Simons

Head, Global People Function

The ThoughtWorks Family

ThoughtWorks was founded to be a home for the best knowledge workers in the world. We have spent the past 15 years

searching the world for talented individuals who share our

values and creating a culture where they can flourish by collaborating

with other outstanding individuals. Our globally-connected community

was built on trust, respect and transparent communication. People

who join our community learn constantly - not only about the work

that they do but about the world we live in and how to use their

talents to create a better world. This community, more akin to family

than colleagues, is our fundamental and lasting differentiator.

ThoughtWorks supports a broad agenda of progressive change in

both our industry and our world. Two examples of how we realise

that ambition via our people processes include our diversity hiring

goals for ThoughtWorks University and our Exchange Programme.

Every year for ThoughtWorks University we target a 50/50 ratio of

men and women globally. We do this because we believe that our

industry is impoverished by the lack of women. We are

proud that this year we will induct more than 50 young

women into careers at ThoughtWorks via this program.

To support our value of building a transnational team, we

strongly encourage all our people to live and work outside

of their home country. Our Exchange Programme providessupport to employees and their dependants who are interested

in being a part of ThoughtWorks in another country. Currently

over 50% of our professional services people have at some

point in their career worked outside their home country. We

are convinced this makes us better by helping us cross-

pollinate innovation and best-practices and keeping us

connected via many personal relationships and networks.

We also strive to provide our people with innovativebenefits. This includes rejuvenation leave, sabbatical leave,

car pooling, sponsorships to attend conferences and training.

We also have an Innovation Hotseat, which is a 1 month

break from regular project work for people to take their

innovative ideas to the next level.

ThoughtWorks often feels like one big family, but of course

all of our employees have families of their own that support

them and love them and allow them to be excellent people

day in and day out. We welcome families in our workplace

and encourage them to become part of the larger TW family

via events like our annual Family Day and other social

events. I sometimes meet spouses and children of our

people and hear them talk about how pleased they are that

'their ThoughtWorker' has found a place that keeps them so

engaged, energized and happy. To me there is no higher

praise.


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The ThoughtWorks Studios Story

Nag K.Nag K.Nag K.Nag K.Nag K.

Head of Marketing

ThoughtWorks Studios

T

houghtWorks kick-started the Agile business era with pioneering IT consulting, and

world-leading software like CruiseControl - the first continuous integration server

and Selenium - the web testing tool. ThoughtWorks Studios, our product division, was

set up in 2007 to take further ThoughtWorks aim of revolutionizing IT.

Developing enterprise software can be difficult and many people, including consultants at

ThoughtWorks, put a lot of time and effort into making it easier. We understand the

importance of their efforts and aim at providing them with tools that improve productivity

and continue to push forward the art of software development.

ThoughtWorks Studios is building next generation tools that embrace the recent advancements

in our industry, and bring us up to date with the best ways to develop software.

ThoughtWorks Studios Application Lifecycle Management suite includes tools for project

collaboration (Mingle), automated functional testing (Twist) and software release management

(Cruise). True to the ThoughtWorks philosophy, our products are developed by teams

around the globe - India, China, US, Australia, UK and Canada. We strive to take Agile

businesses to the next level and help globally distributed teams deliver software of lasting

business impact. In the first year alone, our products have gained acceptance with more

than 70 customers (3M, Cisco, EMC etc.) in a dozen countries.

For more information, visitwww.thoughtworks.com/studioswww.thoughtworks.com/studioswww.thoughtworks.com/studioswww.thoughtworks.com/studioswww.thoughtworks.com/studios


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A day in the life of a ThoughtWorker...A day in the life of a ThoughtWorker...A day in the life of a ThoughtWorker...A day in the life of a ThoughtWorker...A day in the life of a ThoughtWorker...

I think therefore I am


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Stand Up

/stnd uhp/

Adaily team meeting held to help

collaboration amongst team members.

Everyone communicates transparently what they

achieved and what's the plan for the day. The

underlying theme for daily stand-up meetings

is self-organisation which leads to betterproductivity. Stand ups aid in sharing

commitment, communicating daily progress,

identifying obstacles and setting direction which

helps in team building.


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Card Wall

/k rd w l/

Adashboard used to visibly track stories

through their life cycle over a few

Iterations. User stories are written on

index cards, which are placed on the wall; the

location of each card on the wall provides

information about its status.

The wall tracks stories in the overall context

of a particular release.


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Dining Table

/dinin tbl/

ThoughtWorks is a no-cubicle office.Each project team sits around a long

table. The project manager, developers,

architects, testers, and analysts share the table.

This dining table format enhances

collaboration, communication and teamwork. Thesame seating format is used by the leadership

team as well as support functions like finance,

recruiting and HR.


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Team Huddle

/tim hd l/

Ashort meeting intended to disseminateimportant information or solve a

problem. These meetings could involve

some or all members of a team and can be as

short as five minutes.


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Aquick feedback mechanism. This is ameeting held by a team after a certain

number of iterations or at the end of a

project to discuss what was successful, what

could be improved, and how to incorporate the

successes and improvements in future iterations

or projects.

Retrospective

/r tr sp k t v/


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Not Another Brick in the Wall


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Organic Innovation at ThoughtWorks

Rohith RajagopalRohith RajagopalRohith RajagopalRohith RajagopalRohith Rajagopal

Innovation Lead

ThoughtWorks ServicesThoughtWorks doesn't have a big budget "To Foster and Promote Innovation". Yet,

ThoughtWorks contributes a disproportionate number of innovative ideas to the

software ecosystem. Witness the number of books written by ThoughtWorkers; or

the number of Open Source tools started by ThoughtWorkers; or the number of

conferences at which ThoughtWorkers are invited to present their ideas.

The key reason is that innovation here has its origins in people learning from their daily

work. Most Open Source tools created by ThoughtWorkers - including the popular ones

like CruiseControl, DBDeploy and Selenium - start off as an idea to solve a real pain

on a project. If it succeeds, then it gets tried on a couple of other projects and finally

gets open sourced. This approach has led to a host of tools from ThoughtWorks India

too - PerfERL for load testing, Sahi for testing web applications, White, SharpRobo,

SWTBot, Frankenstein, PoshZones, Migrator, etc. The same applies to books and

presentations too - most of them originate while solving our clients' problems.

While the organization provides visible support for innovation - time-off to contribute to

open source projects, venues like GeekNights and BarCamps to showcase new ideas

- the organization's biggest contributor to innovation is creating a melting pot of high

caliber individuals who value cool ideas and are eager to experiment.


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Vivek PrahladVivek PrahladVivek PrahladVivek PrahladVivek Prahlad

Innovation Lead

ThoughtWorks Studios

The Technical Side of ThoughtWorks

At ThoughtWorks, we pride ourselves at being on the bleeding edge of

technology. We were one of the first to build a J2EE application, one of

the first consulting firms to adopt .NET, and we are very early adopters and

contributors to Ruby On Rails. At ThoughtWorks India, we successfully completed

one of the first Rails projects in India in early 2006. We've also had a strongtradition of coming up with Functional Testing tools such as Sahi, SharpRobo,

White and Frankenstein.

So why do we do it, just what is it about the bleeding edge that we find so

attractive?

It comes down to finding the best solution for the job. We're always on the

lookout for faster, cheaper, simpler ways of doing things, and besides, we all

love shiny new objects.

Our vision is to help our clients leverage the latest in technology to drive their

businesses forward. Though we all have our individual technology preferences, we

do try to be as technology agnostic as possible. We also take our productivity

very seriously, which is why we're constantly on the lookout for approaches,

techniques and tools that are the next step beyond the status quo.


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Consulting ThoughtWorks

Sudhindhra RaoSudhindhra RaoSudhindhra RaoSudhindhra RaoSudhindhra Rao

ConsultantA

t ThoughtWorks, we are proud of our abilities in

consulting. For us consulting means working on

challenging problems and helping our clients derive

benefit from their software. Our job does not limit us in

just delivering good software to solve the business

problem but also enables and transforms the client

organization which is going to use the software.

Our consulting technique focuses on empowering the

people we work with to help them make better choices.

As part of our engagements we also evangelize better

software development through Agile and dont limit

ourselves to processes.

Consulting with ThoughtWorks is about delivering,

evangelizing, empowering and having fun with software

development.


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Martin FowleMartin FowleMartin FowleMartin FowleMartin Fowler : Famous author and international speaker. Martin has written five popular books on

software development and spoken at numerous conferences. He is one of the original signatories of

the Agile Manifesto, having helped create it. Martin is the Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks and an

inspiration to many.

www.martinfowler.comwww.martinfowler.comwww.martinfowler.comwww.martinfowler.comwww.martinfowler.com

Thought Luminaries

Pramod SadalagePramod SadalagePramod SadalagePramod SadalagePramod Sadalage : Author and Evolutionary Database expert, Pramod writes and speaks about the

impact of evolutionary practices on database administration. He helps us understand evolutionary

design with regards to databases and makes it easy for everyone to use.

www.sadalage.comwww.sadalage.comwww.sadalage.comwww.sadalage.comwww.sadalage.com

Neal FordNeal FordNeal FordNeal FordNeal Ford : Software Architect, Neal is also the designer of applications, instructional materials,

magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author and/or editor of 5 books. He is

also an internationally acclaimed speaker, speaking at over 100 developer conferences worldwide,

delivering more than 600 talks.

www.nealford.comwww.nealford.comwww.nealford.comwww.nealford.comwww.nealford.com

Ola BiniOla BiniOla BiniOla BiniOla B ini : Core JRuby developer and author since 2006 and is the author of the book Practical

JRuby on Rails. His technical experience ranges from Java, Ruby and LISP to several open source

projects. He likes implementing languages, writing regular expression engines, YAML parsers and

other similar things that exist at the border of computer science.

http://ola-bini.blogspot.comhttp://ola-bini.blogspot.comhttp://ola-bini.blogspot.comhttp://ola-bini.blogspot.comhttp://ola-bini.blogspot.com


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ThoughtWorks OpenSource

* Many ThoughtWorkers & ex ThoughtWorkers are major contributors of Technology Books and the Open Source Movement.

Srihari Srinivasan

Chris Stevenson

Owen Rogers

Vivek Singh

Jon Tirsen

Jason Yip

Alexei Vorontsov

Michael Two

MichaelGranger

Paul Hammant

Vivek Prahlad

Dragos Manolescu

James Webber

Neal Ford

Joe Walnes

Alexei Vorontsov

Matthew Fommel

Pramod Sadalage

Mike Mason

Martin Fowler

ThoughtWorks Books


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Open Source Projects By ThoughtWorkers

SWTBotSWTBotSWTBotSWTBotSWTBotBy Ketan PadegaonkarKetan PadegaonkarKetan PadegaonkarKetan PadegaonkarKetan Padegaonkar

SWTBot is an open-source Java based functional testing tool for testing SWT and Eclipse based applications. SWTBot has a driver

and recorder to playback and record tests and integrates with Eclipse, and also provides for ant tasks so that you can run your

builds from within CruiseControl or any other CI tool that you use. SWTBot provides APIs that are simple to read and write.

SWTBot can run on all platforms that SWT runs on. Very few other testing tools provide such a wide variety of platforms.

http://swtbot.org/http://swtbot.org/http://swtbot.org/http://swtbot.org/http://swtbot.org/

PerfERLPerfERLPerfERLPerfERLPerfERLBy S R KarthikS R KarthikS R KarthikS R KarthikS R Karthik

PerfErl is an Erlang based load testing tool intended to replace the popular JMeter and overcome its drawbacks. This tool makes

use of Erlangs built in concurrency mechanisms to easily distribute load generation across multiple machines.

WhiteWhiteWhiteWhiteWhiteBy Vivek SinghVivek SinghVivek SinghVivek SinghVivek Singh

White is a tool for building UI-based functional tests for Win32, WinForm, WPF and SWT applications using the UIA .NET library

in .NET 3.0. It fundamentally acts as a layer of abstraction over UIA to providing a seamless, uniform and intuitive automation

interface. White also makes use of the Windows Messages to overcome limitations in UIA. White tests/programs can be written

in any programming language supported by .NET, even though White itself is built using C#.White is in an early beta release.

Development focus to-date has been on WPF/WinForm and this is where it has the richest functionality.

www.codeplex.com/whitewww.codeplex.com/whitewww.codeplex.com/whitewww.codeplex.com/whitewww.codeplex.com/white

MigratorMigratorMigratorMigratorMigrator

By Srihari SrinivasanSrihari SrinivasanSrihari SrinivasanSrihari SrinivasanSrihari Srinivasan

Migrator allows you to define incremental changes to your database schema using SQL and applies them using ANT. This also

makes distributing schema changes easy as Migrators change scripts can be stored in your version control system. All of

Migrators features are exposed as Ant tasks. The migrator works by applying a bunch of change scripts, essentially in SQL

and running them sequentially till the latest or a specified version. Migrator provides an added facility to extract changes between

any two versions of your schema.

http://migrator.sourceforge.net/http://migrator.sourceforge.net/http://migrator.sourceforge.net/http://migrator.sourceforge.net/http://migrator.sourceforge.net/

*These are recent projects contributed by ThoughtWorkers from India.


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TW ImmersionTW ImmersionTW ImmersionTW ImmersionTW Immersion

TW UniversityTW UniversityTW UniversityTW UniversityTW University


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Sumeet MogheSumeet MogheSumeet MogheSumeet MogheSumeet Moghe

Training Manager

ThoughtWorks University & Immersion

What happens at University and Immersion?What happens at University and Immersion?What happens at University and Immersion?What happens at University and Immersion?What happens at University and Immersion?

ThoughtWorks University is our program to induct new graduate hires. The 6 week course is

a consultant training program, comprised of facilitated class-room sessions and individual

performance coaching and review. During the course, students are introduced to Thoughtworks

- History, Culture, Values, Operations; Consulting - challenges in the field, influencing,

negotiation; Development; Testing; Business Analysis; Personal Development; amongst many other

topics. The course runs at a frenetic pace, using games, simulations and role-plays and the

crescendo is a life-like project simulation that gets students to emerge as consultants, ready to

face challenges in the field.

Immersion is our program for experienced hires, which is designed to introduce experts in their

fields to the way ThoughtWorks works, our history and culture. Its a glorious, truly

ThoughtWorks-style introduction to the company. Zipped off to India, from wherever in the world

one joins ThoughtWorks, students are initiated into the mysterious world of everything

ThoughtWorks - acronyms, games, hotdogs, and history - all becomes clear as they journey

through the simulated lifecycle of a client engagement.

Each course is a learning opportunity on both sides: for the students to learn about ThoughtWorks practices and for us to learn how to

mentor those with less experience but equal aptitude. The mentoring relationship is something that many ThoughtWorkers take a great deal

of pride in doing and all of the trainers at the University or Immersion are ThoughtWorkers.

Why a diverse audience?Why a diverse audience?Why a diverse audience?Why a diverse audience?Why a diverse audience?

Many ThoughtWorkers have worked in countries other than their own. As we look ahead, it is evident that ThoughtWorks will continue to

have high cross-cultural team collaboration. Training in India allows new ThoughtWorkers to gain exposure to a diverse team environment

and facilitate communication across various cultures and backgrounds. Its amazing to have a group of 30 odd ThoughtWorkers each term,

who build such strong bonds with each other that they can work with each other at a moments notice when asked to. It is this trusting,

global network of talented, exceptional people that we wish to build with ThoughtWorks University and Immersion.

Why India?Why India?Why India?Why India?Why India?

To many people it would seem strange and awfully expensive to have new hires travel halfway across the world and attend a training session

in Bangalore or Pune. At the same time, it takes just a visit to a Thoughtworks India office, to experience the difference. Induction training

in India started in 2005 after Murray White, the former Managing Director of the US, visited India and found nearly pure Agile projects

and became passionate that every new ThoughtWorker should share this experience. Over the years, the Distributed Agile capability of the

India offices has been an additional attraction as it gets new hires a first hand understanding of how these projects work.


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ThoughtWorkers!

I may describe ThoughtWorks as a hot-headed,argumentative but brilliant nutty professor. Howabout a straight-talking, no-holds-barred, thrill-

seeking, entrepreneur?


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tte--tte with ThoughtWorkers

Aman KingAman KingAman KingAman KingAman King

Application Developer

Q1. Why did you join ThoughtWorks?Q2. What do you most look forward to when you come into work everyday?

Q3. What differentiates ThoughtWorks from any other company?

Aman KingAman KingAman KingAman KingAman King ----- Application Developer

1. As a concept, Agile seemed to me a radical but pragmatic approach to software development. My research on

it kept leading me to ThoughtWorks. It wasn't long before I realized that if you wanted to see Agile come outof books and blogs into real-world projects, ThoughtWorks was the place to be. Same thing with Ruby: most

of what I know about the language is via blogs by ThoughtWorkers.

2. Learning something new. Everyday you come into office, your horizons get broadened some way or the other.

You may pick up some good programming practices, improve your OO modeling, get introduced to a new

framework, figure out how to make iteration planning more effective, or perhaps just learn new table tennis tricks!

There is always someone you can share your ideas and experiences with.

3. Excellence of the talented folks all around and their passion. Everyone puts in their best and are committed

to whatever they do. People are uncompromising and no shortcuts are taken, no excuses given and quality and

respect are never compromised. We also enjoy complete support from the management, admin, IT and colleagues.

Vikram SathyamurthyVikram SathyamurthyVikram SathyamurthyVikram SathyamurthyVikram Sathyamurthy

Project Manager

Vikram SathyamurthyVikram SathyamurthyVikram SathyamurthyVikram SathyamurthyVikram Sathyamurthy ----- Project Manager

1. When I joined ThoughtWorks about six years ago, Agile was new in the way software was being developed

and I saw ThoughtWorks as one of the leaders in Agile Development. Since I had worked on the waterfall model

for a while, I saw a lot of benefits in the way ThoughtWorks developed software. Hence, I wanted to give myself

a chance to see how this model of software development is different and get a new lesson in technology.

2. When I come into work everyday, I come with a passion to meet people who are smart, who have new ideas,who are from varied domains, having varied roles. Talking to these people and working with them, has been

an enriching experience. I feel that at the end of the day I have learnt something new. The great advantage

is that there is some new learning everyday.

3. The flat hierarchy that we have! Not many organizations have such kind of a flat hierarchy. To sustain a flat

hierarchy for a long period of time is really difficult. As an organization we are very open and honest in

discussing a lot of things. I am really kicked about the openness and honesty displayed in this company.


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Chirag DoshiChirag DoshiChirag DoshiChirag DoshiChirag Doshi ----- Application Developer

1. I joined ThoughtWorks for the experience of working on projects using Extreme Programming. Before joining, I had

read up a lot about it from books/articles authored by Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham and Martin Fowler. I got to

know that ThoughtWorks has an office in Bangalore and I jumped on the opportunity to join this firm.

2. I look forward to writing great code which is highly maintainable. Working in a highly energetic, collaborative

environment also inspires me.

3. It's the people! Fullstop. In most of the other large companies in India I have seen an 80-20 split, where 20%

people are the leaders, they are the ones that make delivery happen. The rest 80% are followers, who need to

be told what they need to do. In ThoughtWorks too, I feel there is still an 80-20 split but here I have seen

that 80% or more of the team are go-getters, smart chaps who get things done, and the remaining 15-20% are

people who are new or still learning stuff. Working with so many smart people provides me with many opportunitiesto learn and also allows for a lot of fun.

Chirag DoshiChirag DoshiChirag DoshiChirag DoshiChirag Doshi

Application Developer

Saptorsi HoreSaptorsi HoreSaptorsi HoreSaptorsi HoreSaptorsi Hore

Business Analyst

Saptorsi HoreSaptorsi HoreSaptorsi HoreSaptorsi HoreSaptorsi Hore ----- Business Analyst

1. After spending four years doing projects in ISO and CMM methodologies I was yearning to work on a software

process that was simple, less documentation intensive, gave greater visibility and control to a customer and

allowed for innovation and change. This led me to read about Agile and ThoughtWorks. The challenging interview

process and the ThoughtWorkers I interacted with made the decision to join ThoughtWorks very easy.

2. I look forward to working in a high energy, friendly and collaborative team environment.

3. Key differentiators lie in the caliber of the people, openness to new ideas and change and easy accessibility to

people and information.

Nivetha PadmanabhanNivetha PadmanabhanNivetha PadmanabhanNivetha PadmanabhanNivetha Padmanabhan

Quality Analyst

Nivetha PadmanabhanNivetha PadmanabhanNivetha PadmanabhanNivetha PadmanabhanNivetha Padmanabhan- Quality Analyst

1. When I came in for the interview, I didn't know much about ThoughtWorks. I liked the recruitment process (even

though it is very long ;-)), culture and work environment. I was very impressed with the personalized care that

the recruiters showed for their "future" employee. That's when I decided to join as I felt; this is THE company

to work for.

2. Since, I'm working on a product; I get to face different challenges, such as doing demos for different clients/

teams, explaining the advantages of the product and resolving the problems faced by our alpha customers.

3. I've worked in four different companies prior to ThoughtWorks and by far my experience here has been different

from the others. A few key differentiators from my perspective are the flat hierarchy and work environment.

ThoughtWorks encourages other activities like attending conferences, presenting papers and doing workshops in

colleges. Personally, I've presented a couple of papers and conducted a two day workshop in a college. A few

policies such as laptop, mobile, rejuvenation leave and sabbatical leave are very employee friendly. Another

important factor is the individual attention you get.


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Flexible Career Paths

Deepa DeoDeepa DeoDeepa DeoDeepa DeoDeepa Deo - People Lead, ThoughtWorks India

"ThoughtWorkers drive their own career paths. Not restricted by role boundaries, they are free to contribute beyond their primaryroles and pick up competencies in other areas. Some love to specialise in their field and there is space for that too. ThoughtWorks'

career development philosophy recognises that people are unique, and respects individual interests and passions."

Ram -Ram -Ram -Ram -Ram - Application Developer / System and Network Administrator

"After some years of developing software applications for use in enterprises and in the Industrial

Automation domain, I joined Thoughtworks as a software developer. Since the second half of this year,I'm a full time system and network administrator with our Bangalore office. Thoughtworks has state

of the art infrastructure to support our various projects, and this needs maintenance and expansion.

I wanted to better understand how enterprise hardware, storage and networks are organized, so that

I can become a better solutions provider in the future. I am an active member of the OpenSolaris

community in India, and visit the Sun office regularly. When the infrastructure team at ThoughtWorks

learned of my interests, they asked me if I was open to working with them for sometime. The

ThoughtWorks India management and all my colleagues at work have been supportive. ThoughtWorks

has been supportive when I need to take time off for my open source pursuits such as speaking at

FOSS.IN."

Reshmi Buthello -Reshmi Buthello -Reshmi Buthello -Reshmi Buthello -Reshmi Buthello - Recruiter / Resource Management

"I joined as a recruiter handling campus recruiting and branding. I used to do Resource Managementfor ThoughtWorks India which is the most challenging role in Thoughtworks. We were small so I

was able to do both activities at the same time, and eventually moved out doing full time Resource

Management which I enjoyed doing. Since I was new to the role, the management team I worked

with supported me and helped me learn delivery, technology and the terminology. Currently I work

at the San Francisco office as a HR professional."

Sameer Deans :Sameer Deans :Sameer Deans :Sameer Deans :Sameer Deans : Business Analyst / Iteration Manager / Project Manager

"I joined and shadowed an existing BA on a project and learnt how to write stories, test cases and

work closely with developers. Now I also do project management and Iteration Management when

required and have done so on the last two projects I was on. What led to the change in role was

that I had developed experience in Agile practices and knew the basics of how a project runs. While

on a particular project, there was a requirement for an Iteration Manager and I decided to play botha Business Analyst and Iteration Manager role instead of adding another person to the team.

ThoughtWorks has provided support in terms of guidance and patience from top management when

things haven't always gone well since both the projects I managed happened to be very tough ones

due to scope and timeline issues. I could always look for help from more experienced ThoughtWorkers

to get an idea on how to manage tough situations."


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to work and on weekends enjoy off roading and long distance biking.

Vipul Kasera, founder of commuteeasy.comcommuteeasy.comcommuteeasy.comcommuteeasy.comcommuteeasy. com, a website that is a car pooling

initiative that aims to make your daily commute easier by connecting you

to commuters across the city who share your route. He is currently

working with the Bangalore Traffic Police to help decongest traffic in

Bangalore City by using the car pooling initiative.

Sidu Ponnappa, co-founder of Activ inactiv.cominactiv.cominactiv.cominactiv.cominact iv.com which works on creating innovative

services on SMS. Activ Mobs, a group chat service currently has over 40,000 users

and sends out 50,000 messages every day.

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"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except inthe realization that we have accomplished something."

... more than a business


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These range from impromptu over-lunch

discussions on topics ranging from Rubyto comics to full-fledged hack-athons where

ThoughtWorkers compete to produce the coolest

app over a twenty-four hour period. Examples of

events include Hack Day, Master Class Series

and Geek Nights.

Events

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Fun @ ThoughtWorks


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Fun @ ThoughtWorks

Our office space is unlike the conventional software development workspace. The intensely

collaborative and open workspace is a dream come true for any technologist. At the same

time, we have a lot of fun at work.

Yes, we work hard but we play harder. Here you get to -

Choose between Age Of Empires, Unreal Tournament and Counter Strike. PlayStation 3 or

an X Box could be your weapon of choice.

Participate in skits, mad ads, dance, singing and perform for an office-wide audience

during away days and company outings. Table tennis for the sporty folks.

Indoor cricket.

Salsa classes from professionals and personalized yoga is available as well.

Office events such as the treasure hunt, ThoughtWorks Oscars and secret angel

during Christmas celebrations.

Celebrate a variety of festivals and events with lots of enthusiasm and joie de vivre.

The sheer energy and enthusiasm here must be seen to be believed.


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Home to arguably the highest density of top IT talent in the industry, ThoughtWorks is a global IT professional

services firm that has pioneered the development and delivery of complex enterprise-transforming businessapplications using Agile methods.

ThoughtWorkers are defined by their attitude, aptitude and integrity. Their creativity, experience and devotion to customer success

generates a work environment that's high energy, results focused and fun.

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 unparalleled business value for clients.

ThoughtWorks India has pioneered the concept of Distributed Agile Development and Offshore Agile Delivery. We consistentlycontribute to industry thought leadership through significant contributions to the Open Source community, speaking at leading

conferences and supporting IT community events.

ThoughtWorks values integrity, passion and innovation and believes that the best people make all the difference.

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