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    TCS CEO says up to 59% of company's developers are now working on Agile areas

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    He added, “They have phenomenal knowledge pool - so how can we use technology to layer them with incremental technology skills and there what we have found is, this cohort is in many ways very digitally adapted and are fast learners.”

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    He was speaking to Jean Philippe Courtois Executive Vice President and President, Microsoft Global Sales, Marketing and Operations in Mumbai.
    Mumbai: Rajesh Gopinathan, chief executive and managing director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) said that the era of multi-year projects had ended and the company had completed two-thirds of its transformation plan to turn into a completely Agile workforce by 2020. Up to 59% of TCS developers are now working on Agile areas, he said.

    He was speaking to Jean Philippe Courtois Executive Vice President and President, Microsoft Global Sales, Marketing and Operations in Mumbai.

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    On a question regarding the capability and technological skills of millennials and young professionals in the company thousands of whom have been hired by the company over the years Gopinathan said “Millennials seemed so fresh a few years back and already they are looking like part of the older workforce because we are typically talking about people with thirty years of experience.”

    He added, “They have phenomenal knowledge pool - so how can we use technology to layer them with incremental technology skills and there what we have found is, this cohort is in many ways very digitally adapted and are fast learners.”

    The company has preferred to train internal talent for constantly changing technologies and tries to retain quality talent rather than searching for it externally, said Gopinathan. Speaking on the company's approach to building its internal skilling platform, he said TCS had leveraged cloud infrastructure internally to make it available on the go and connected it the company’s internal social platform and gamified it.
    The Economic Times

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