| |
|
|
| |
| | Ponmurugarajan (Rajan) Thiyagarajan is an information technology (IT) professional with more than two decades of experience. He specializes in design-led digital transformation with a focus on content, channels, marketing, commerce, and sustainability solutions. Rajan received a MS in industrial engineering from Thiagarajar College of Engineering. He has also earned several professional certifications, for example, he is an ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer and an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional. Rajan currently holds a senior director position at Designit, a Wipro company that offers integrated strategic design, marketing, and innovation services. He advises clients from across the retail, consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, and telecommunications industries, helping them innovate and build digital transformation solutions. He values creative storytelling that focuses on the intersection of products, brands, and human beings, and uses design thinking to ideate and craft disruptive digital experiences in an agile manner. Rajan has been a reviewer for Computing Reviews since 2005, and enjoys reading books and papers related to design, software quality, machine learning, and digital transformation. He has also served on the American Society for Quality (ASQ) - Quality Press board of reviewers. Rajan is a self-described audiophile and is passionate about mechanical typewriters. He loves to play volleyball. |
| |
| |
|
Date Reviewed |
|
| |
1 - 10 of 26
reviews
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
 User friendly: how the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work, and play
Genesereth M., Fabricant R., MCD, New York, NY, 2019. 416 pp. Type: Book (978-0-374279-75-2)
Books that focus on a narrow topic but extend to powerful depths of detail are rare. User-friendliness is such a topic that has deeper connotations. Hence, this book is an effort to dive deep into two viewpoints of user-friendliness: &...
|
Sep 3 2021 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Building design systems: unify user experiences through a shared design language
Vesselov S., Davis T., Apress, New York, NY, 2019. 164 pp. Type: Book (978-1-484245-13-2)
One rarely comes across books dedicated to a niche topic like design systems. User experience is of the utmost importance in this digital era, so a book on building design systems is a precious resource for both new and experienced use...
|
Feb 3 2020 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Machine learning using R
Ramasubramanian K., Singh A., Apress, New York, NY, 2016. 566 pp. Type: Book (978-1-484223-33-8)
Karthik Ramasubramanian and Abhishek Singh, experts in data science and business analytics, have written a comprehensive reference book on machine learning using R. This book covers a relevant and hot topic in today’s digital...
|
Oct 26 2017 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Guide to software development: designing and managing the life cycle (2nd ed.)
Langer A., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2016. 402 pp. Type: Book (978-1-447167-97-6)
We are in the modern digital era. Over the last few years, the software development life cycle of digital projects has undergone rapid changes. Most of today’s organizations follow the DevOps methodology over traditional wate...
|
Jun 8 2017 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mood and mobility: navigating the emotional spaces of digital social networks
Coyne R., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2016. 392 pp. Type: Book (978-0-262029-75-9)
Mood and mobility is a novel effort by Richard Coyne. In this book, the author stresses an important aspect, the mood, and how it applies to the digital world from different perspectives. The book discusses ten key mood proposit...
|
Jun 28 2016 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Identifying services from legacy batch applications
Komondoor R., Nandivada V., Sinha S., Field J. ISEC 2012 (Proceedings of the 5th India Software Engineering Conference, Kanpur, India, Feb 22-25, 2012) 13-22, 2012. Type: Proceedings
Modernization is the current buzzword in the information technology (IT) industry. Legacy IT applications are transformed, reengineered, and modernized to meet the needs of today’s world. Mobile devices are the hot products p...
|
Dec 17 2012 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
ICMM--a maturity model for software inspections
Kollanus S. Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice 23(5): 327-341, 2011. Type: Article
In today’s competitive business world, companies strive to provide high-quality products and services. Measurement of the quality of products is relatively easier and more accurate than the measurement of services. Service-ba...
|
Dec 15 2011 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
When agile meets OO testing: a case study
Goeschl S., Herp M., Wais C. ETOOS 2010 (Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Testing Object-Oriented Systems, Maribor, Slovenia, Jun 21, 2010) 1-5, 2010. Type: Proceedings
Many people have written about agile development processes such as Scrum and extreme programming (XP). This paper focuses primarily on the agile test methodology, a popular research topic. The authors describe the agile testing approac...
|
Mar 24 2011 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Management of scorecards and metrics to manage security in SMEs
Sánchez L., Villafranca D., Fernández-Medina E., Piattini M. MoSE+DQS 2009 (Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Model Driven Service Engineering and Data Quality and Security, Hong Kong, Nov 6, 2009) 9-16, 2009. Type: Proceedings
Information security management is a critical activity for any industry. This applies to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) as well. When it comes to SMEs, it may not be economical or easy to implement and maintain an information secu...
|
Aug 12 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Practical challenges of requirements prioritization based on risk estimation
Herrmann A., Paech B. Empirical Software Engineering 14(6): 644-684, 2009. Type: Article
Requirements are very critical for the success of a project, especially a software project. Most practical situations in the information technology (IT) industry demand prioritization of requirements, which is not easy to do. Requireme...
|
Jan 22 2010 |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
