Prakash Bettapdapur
Cisco
Senior Engineering Leader
Prakash Bettadapur is an Agile Evangelist and Transformation Lead in Cisco Systems, speciTcally leading this effort in Cisco Services Technology Group and Services Platform Group. He has helped transform a 2000+ members organization to Agile, and the journey continues. In addition, he leads several engineering programs in the business unit, partnering with other cross-function teams. Prakash believes that Agile effectiveness must be proven by actually leading programs and products by example, and not by letting Agile be run as a process. Agile is a mindset, and right decisions must be applied every moment. Prakash Bettadapur has 30+ Years of Software Development experience. He has spent the last 20 years promoting Agile and Lean development philosophies and guiding most of the programs to success. He started with Agile Scrum in Cisco about 10 years ago, when his teams were part of building the next generation IOS-XE operating system, proving ultra-large scale systems can be built using Agile methodologies.