Raja Bavani is Chief Architect of Mindtree and plays the role of Agile Evangelist. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the IT industry and has published papers at international conferences on topics related to code quality, distributed agile development, customer value management, and software estimation. His areas of interest include global delivery models, agile software development, requirements engineering, software architecture, software reuse, customer value management, knowledge management, and IT outsourcing. He is a member of IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society. Raja regularly interfaces with educational institutions, offers guest lectures, and writes for technical conferences.