ThoughtWorks - A Global IT Consultancy
We deliver mission critical, technically complex initiatives from offshore. Our approach -
Offshore Agile - utilizes highly innovative agile development methodology & practices that maximize communication, collaboration and transparency. We deliver exactly what your business demands, as fast as possible.
The use of a Distributed Agile methodology, requiring close communication between IT and business stakeholders, delivered key business requirements — and thus benefits — sooner.
-Forrester Consulting,
Total Economic Impact Report
- Reduced risk: We directly address the problems that keep highly complex or critical projects from realizing the savings of offshore development. Learn more about ThoughtWorks' Offshore Agile approach.
- Faster results, faster ROI: We deliver significant value quickly and continuously, through iterative agile development processes and rapid releases.
- Leveraging exceptional talent: Our people are the key to our success. ThoughtWorks Offshore's hiring ratio is approximately 1 out of every 150 applicants. Candidates applying to ThoughtWorks India or China are put through the same hiring process as our USA, UK or Australia offices.
- Technical Leadership: We are recognized experts in applying the .NET platform, Java, Ruby and OSS technologies. ThoughtWorkers have authored 16 books on software engineering, architecture, design and testing.
- Early Adopters and Innovators: We thrive on early adoption and technical innovation when demanded by the needs of our clients for competitive advantage. Selected examples of innovation from ThoughtWorks Offshore:
- WHITE is a .NET test automation tool built by Vivek Singh. One of the top 6 Open Source projects on codeplex in 2008, by view count
- Ye Zheng is a contributor to JRuby, a 100% pure Java implementation of the Ruby programming language.
- Ketan Padagoenkar's SWTBot is an agile open-source Java based UI/functional testing tool for testing SWT and Eclipse based applications.
- Michael Chan is the creator of Buffalo, lightweight AJAX framework for Java web projects.
- Vivek Prahlad's Frankenstein is a Functional Testing tool for Swing applications. Frankenstein's focus is on readable, simple, fast functional tests that can be shared and run by everyone on a team.
- Jeff Xiong, Huang Liang and Pengchao Wang have contributed to Selenium, a suite of tools to automate web application testing across multiple platforms.
ThoughtWorks Offshore - A Brief Timeline
