Mukesh Chaudhary

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Mukesh Chaudhary works as team lead and ScrumMaster where he is involved in coaching teams to build sophisticated applications using sound agile practices. Mukesh has a Masters in electrical engineering from the University of Memphis. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Project Management

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United States

Mukesh Chaudhary

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	How Agile Prevents Software Decay All of us have been in the situation where fixing a single issue can produce several other defects. Agile embraces continuous design changes and code refactoring to meet challenges from emerging requirements. This inherently promotes practices that prevent software decay.
	How Will Agile Software Practices Look in the Future?As agile adoption continues to gain popularity, it appears that Scrum is at the forefront of many agile implementations. Given the rise of Scrum, it makes sense that you might wonder how agile will continue to evolve as new methodologies—some of which may replace Scrum—are being developed.
	How to Avoid Poorly Conducted Sprint RetrospectivesThe sprint retrospective is an important ceremony in Scrum. Of course, it’s bad if you don’t perform retrospectives at all. However, more often than not, it is not the retrospective itself, but rather a poorly conducted retrospective that results in an ineffective, stale, and meaningless effort.
	Why Agile Adoption Is Needed to Address SMACThe world is at the confluence of four technologies: social networking, mobile computing, analytics, and cloud computing (SMAC). Companies worldwide are finding value in embracing the disruption brought by SMAC and the need to adopt agile in order to meet the challenges.
	Is It Time to Get Rid of the Desktop IDE?Eclipse set the development world abuzz in the fall of 2012 with the release of Orion, its browser-based integrated development environment (IDE). With the big push to move computing to the cloud, is it time to get rid of the desktop IDE?
	Tips for Scaling Agile DevelopmentIt used to be normal to hear that agile projects should be small in both time frame and team size. Now, it seems conventional wisdom dictates that we should be scaling agile. But how do you go about doing this? Mukesh Chaudhary lists some useful tips to scale efficiently.
	The Importance of Holistic Design for Successful ProductsMukesh Chaudhary explores why users seem to believe that Google Search and iPhones are more useful than other similar products. It can be concluded that the overall user experience plays a big role in the success of a product as well as a well-thought-out holistic design.
	Helpful Lessons to Successfully Transition to ScrumThe agile adoption trend continues to gain momentum. Additionally, among all the agile methodologies, Scrum remains the most popular way for implementing agile. Mukesh Chaudhary shares some helpful lessons to make a successful transition to Scrum and avoid a negative hybrid called ScrumBut.
	Why You Need to Train Developers to Improve App SecurityAn obvious step needed to build secure applications is to provide the right training to development teams. If you want to secure an application, you have to think like a hacker. Security training will help in developing the right mind-set to create secure applications.
	The Importance of Courage in Agile TeamsAn important attribute of agile teams is the courage to do the right things. You need courage in making the right architectural decisions, tackling the right stories, and standing up for values and principles you believe in.