Master Class Online is a monthly webinar series presented by ThoughtWorks. These 60-90 minute webinars are one of the first series of webinars in India with an objective of sharing knowledge & raising awareness about Software Development. The speakers for this webinar series are hand picked and well known thought leaders from ThoughtWorks. We also invite guest speakers to talk about technology topics in which they have expertise.

Master Class Webinars

• Jim Webber on The Architecture You Have Always Dreamt Of, April 8, 2010.
• Neal Ford on 10 Ways to Improve Your Code, March 10, 2010.
• Mahesh Reddy on The Hadoop Java Software Framework, November 25, 2009.
• Munjal Budhabhatti on Bootstrapping iPhone Development, September 24, 2009.
• Rohan & Harshal on DSL Construction Using Ruby, July 8, 2009.
• Viswanathan K on Cloud Computing, May 13, 2009.
• Vivek Prahlad on Transitioning To Agile, March 25, 2009.

Who is the target audience?

In a nutshell, these webinars are targeted at practitioners. That essentially means IT professionals based in India, including BAs, Developers, QAs, Project Managers and CxOs.

What are the kind of topics we are looking at?

Agile practices, Lean, development techniques, testing strategies and approaches, and emerging technologies are just some of the broad topic areas that are possible. The topics can be as detailed as you'd like them to be, but do keep the audience in mind while choosing a topic.

On a related note, ThoughtWorks also hosts the IT Matters Podcast, which is a show discussing the business and technology issues facing the IT Industry, and sharing insights on improving the state of how business value is delivered.