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Brief Note About … Raghav S. Nandyal |
URL: http://www.SITARATECH.com E-Mail: raghav_nandyal@SITARATECH.com |
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Raghav S.
Nandyal is the Founder and CEO of SITARA Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a professional
services company with core competencies in strategic management consulting and
high-maturity process appraisals. He is among the very few Certified
High-maturity Lead Appraisers by the CMMI Institute (earlier, Software
Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University), who has led over a hundred
high-maturity SCAMPI and CMMI Benchmark appraisals on the CMMI and the People
CMM. Prior to the sunset of CMMI constellations and the People CMM, he had the
unique distinction of being certified by the CMMI Institute to teach the
‘Introduction to CMMI V1.3 for Development, Acquisition and Services
constellations, Acquisition Supplement, Services Supplement’ and ‘Introduction
to the People CMM’ courses
He has
been a prime consultant, coach and an assessor on Software and People-CMM based
process improvement initiatives in leading multinationals, worldwide since 1996.
He has led 100+ CBA-IPI (Software CMM), PBAM (People CMM), SCAMPI Class C, B and
A appraisals on both the CMMI and People CMM models—mostly high maturity
appraisals. He is on the international review panel for IEEE Software as a
referee. He is a regular speaker at international conferences such as the SEPG
and CMMI Global Congress. He has trained a number of people in India, Japan,
Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Thailand, the United Kingdom, the United
States of America and China on CMMI, Software CMM and People CMM. He has a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. He is a donor alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. |
In
his prior assignment at Intelligroup, Inc. as Chief Process & Quality
Officer, he was the primary architect and the driving force behind
Intelligroup’s Indian subsidiary to be assessed at the highest rating for
software management and technology practices at Software CMM Level 5 in a record
time of 12 months in October 2000 since they were assessed at SW-CMM Level 3 in
October 1999. He also led their People CMM assessment at Level 2 in May 2000 -
among the first sites to publicly acknowledge this capability in the world. As a
General Manager, he managed their Corporate R&D division that was
responsible for developing software products, tools and engineering methods to
support and augment process capability.
He
held several senior management positions at LG Software Development Center
(India) ranging from program manager to Head-Emerging Technologies. He was
instrumental in initiating a significant strategic alliance between LGSI and
CISE (Center for Information & Software Engineering) at Carnegie-Mellon
University. He was also the prime consultant to LG-EDS Systems, Inc. a 2000
person company in South Korea where as a consultant to the senior management of
LG-EDS Systems, Inc., he mentored and coached the Quality Management Team in
addition to facilitating outsourcing of project development activities.
He
worked as senior manager at NYNEX Science and Technology Asia (P) Ltd., in their
Bangkok and New York locations. He was responsible for project management and
user acceptance testing of several software modules involving intelligent field
access service of telephony applications. He facilitated the software process
improvement program based on the SEI-CMM model at NYNEX S&T. He was a
Research Assistant at Illinois Institute of Technology after his Master of
Science program in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a project associate
in the VLSI CAD Laboratory at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore before
joining Motorola.
He
worked in a software engineering position at Motorola India Electronics Pvt.
Ltd., where he developed systems software using structured methods for the
Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group. He published several papers and
developed innovative award winning software tools in an attempt to automate the
software development life cycle, and was part of the team responsible for
creating the first commercial Software CMM Level 5 company in the world in
November 1993.
His current research interests in software management are in mitigating software risks and building self-sustaining software process improvement programs in development environments working on emerging technologies. He has a number of technical papers in international conferences to his credit. He has guided students as an external guide on their Master’s project work and is a donor alumnus of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
He has authored six books, published by Tata McGraw Hill Education—People CMM, CMMI and Making Sense of Software Quality Assurance. The second edition of the CMMI—Framework of Constellations for Building World-Class IT Organizations—addresses all three constellations of the CMMI in both representations, and was published in May 2011. His book is on Building and Sustaining High Maturity Software Organizations was published in 2012. His most recent book on Execution Effectiveness published by Bloomsbury in 2021 introduces a breakthrough performance improvement strategy focused on the much needed aspect of 'effectiveness' with a proprietary toolkit called - Systemic Process Review Using MeasurementsSM; SPRUM(R).
Related Link: Customer Feedback and Endorsements, Shailaja Nandyal
® Capability Maturity Model is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon University.
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