User talk:Abrachan

Abrachan Pudussery B.E, M.S  has around two decades of experience in software development, quality management and project management. He started his career as a computer programmer and subsequently played the roles of systems analyst, project manager, senior project manager, head – QA and manager – Process Engineering. He worked for organizations such as HCL, FEC Singapore, OTE Muscat, Think Business Networks and Novell. At present he works as the Managing Director of Prologic Systems (Private) Limited, Bangalore, India.

He is a PMI certified project manager (PMP) and PRINCE2 practitioner, with around ten years experience in project management involving large teams. He has successfully managed several domestic and international projects which gave him vast exposure to pre-sales support, account management, software  size estimation, proposal preparation, contract administration, project management, quality management and multi cultural teams. He played active role in one ISO 9000 and two CMM implementations. He is a trained trainer of the QES - quality education system by Philip.B.Crosy and has trained more than two hundred software professionals on Crosby's methodology for quality improvement and mentored them through their corrective / preventive action projects resulting in improved ROI for their organizations.

He is a trainer / speaker  / researcher of project management, quality management, open source and iterative software development models. Co-authored and delivered a tutorial on iterative software project  management, at the SPM-ICON 2004, the international conference on practical project management, held at Bangalore. He presented the Pragati project at the Bangalore-linux conference on 3rd December 2004 which got presented subsequently at Brainshare Europe and Brainshare US. He architected the PMPdistilled project management training program, which benefitted around 840 project managers worldwide.

He has just released his agile project management workshop doagile - appliedagile

More details of him are availble at his personal web site