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Sowmya Karunakaran

Sowmya Karunakaran

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Sowmya Karunakaran has been involved in agile software development since 2005. She has worked in different flavors of agile, XP, Scrum, DSDM, FDD, and XP/Scrum hybrid. Currently, Sowmya is a lead consultant at Agile Center of Excellence, HCL technologies, and is responsible for evangelizing agile practices across the organization and facilitating large-scale agile transition activities for some of her Fortune 500 clients. She has presented many papers at various conferences, including IEEE, ASCI, and Agile Tour. Sowmya enjoys writing articles and papers in her areas of interest. Recent works include co-authoring the book Model Driven Software Development and Integrated Quality Assurance, published by the IDEA group, and articles in Agile Record andTesting Experience. Sowmya’s interests involve model-driven architecture, agile methodologies, and human machine interface computing.

Sowmya Karunakaran


Sowmya Karunakaran has been involved in agile software development since 2005. She has worked in different flavors of agile, XP, Scrum, DSDM, FDD, and XP/Scrum hybrid. Currently, Sowmya is a lead consultant at Agile Center of Excellence, HCL technologies, and is responsible for evangelizing agile practices across the organization and facilitating large-scale agile transition activities for some of her Fortune 500 clients. She has presented many papers at various conferences, including IEEE, ASCI, and Agile Tour. Sowmya enjoys writing articles and papers in her areas of interest. Recent works include co-authoring the book Model Driven Software Development and Integrated Quality Assurance, published by the IDEA group, and articles in Agile Record andTesting Experience. Sowmya’s interests involve model-driven architecture, agile methodologies, and human machine interface computing.

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photo of earth Seven Strategies for Handling Distributed Agile

Global markets, global talent, and a constant pressure to reduce costs through outsourcing are all major forces that contribute to distributed teams, but distribution can inhibit communication within the team. Here are seven strategies for staying agile in the face of distributed-team challenges.