Agile in India
I recently completely a business trip to India for Serena Software. I visited Chennai and Bangalore. It was an amazing trip and the first opportunity I've had to directly experience the Indian people and their culture. The purpose of my trip was to visit Serena customers and prospects and to speak with them about Agile development. I had meetings with HCL, Cognizant, and Infosys. These companies graciously hosted me and brought technical and project leaders from their organizations to discuss various aspects and issues with regard to the adoption of agile methods. I was very impressed with where they were. While Agile's initial foothold in India has for the most part been driven by the service company's foreign (mostly US) customer, agile was also being adopted now for its inherent benefits as well. I believe we are about to see an explosive adoption wave in India similar to what we are seeing in the states. Most of what we discussed was "typical" challenges for t...