Serial Entrepreneur Vishwas Mudagal joins GoodWorkLabs as CEO

GoodWorkLabs, the leading software product consulting and development firm, strengthens its leadership team and gears up for rapid growth

Bangalore, Karnataka (PRWEB) November 12, 2013

Vishwas Mudagal, an active industry thought leader and a successful serial entrepreneur has joined GoodWorkLabs, a top software product consulting and development firm, as its Chief Executive Officer (CEO). The Bangalore based organization assists global clients in solving complex technology and enterprise software related hurdles.

GoodWorkLabs was founded by Sonia Sharma and Vishwas Mudagal, wherein the latter acted as an investor and mentor. The rapid growth propelled Mudagal to play a larger role and join as the CEO. The team at GoodWorkLabs has delivered cutting-edge software and mobile products/solutions for its customers globally.

“We are product people in software services industry, that’s our differentiator. We bring a wealth of experience and expertise in turning an idea into a successful scalable product,” said Mudagal on the firm’s USP. “Our vision is to be the world’s best high-tech product development and consulting firm that crafts and redefines the technology space for the coming decades,” he further added.

Sonia Sharma, the Managing Director & Co-Founder, said, “We are thrilled to have Vishwas, an industry leader, join us as the CEO. He brings with him tremendous experience, insights and credibility. This is a milestone for GoodWorkLabs.”

Mudagal’s immediate plans include expanding business pipeline in US, EMEA and APAC and building a stronghold in key arenas such as high-end mobile apps and gaming, custom software development, outsourced product development, big data analytics and technology automation. The firm will also focus on building IP and creating products in various segments to enable their clients go to market faster.

About GoodWorkLabs

GoodWorkLabs is a new-age software lab that delivers cutting-edge products and solutions for customers globally. The firm has expertise in high-end Mobile Apps Development, Outsourced Product Development, Web/Cloud/SaaS Products, Enterprise Solutions, Java, Ruby on Rails Development and setting up offshore development centres/global teams.

About Vishwas Mudagal

Mudagal was previously the CEO-India of Castle Rock Research Corporation, a Canadian education technology firm, and the CEO and co-founder of JobeeHive.com, the leading employer-research focused Internet platform in India. He received the Star Entrepreneur Award from Indira India Innovation Summit 2011 in recognition of his contribution to entrepreneurship and innovation.

Contact Address:

GoodWorkLabs Services Pvt. Ltd.
Prestige Shantiniketan, Whitefield
Bangalore, India
+91-80-43364621
contact@goodworklabs.com

Link to the press release.

GoodWorkLabs team attended the Nasscom Product Conclave 2013 at Bangalore. The conclave was buzzing with entrepreneurs and product guys showcasing their products and exchanging ideas. With 1600 attendees this time around, it was the biggest conclave till date. We met many talented and passionate folks, who are pushing India to become a product and innovation hub.

It’s estimated that Bangalore will be the single largest IT cluster on the planet by 2020, with 20 lakh IT professionals, 60 lakh indirect employment and Rs 4,00,000 crore exports. GoodWorkLabs is proud to be headquartered in Bangalore. We are proud to be playing a role in making Bangalore the No.1 innovation hub in the world.

Let’s make it happen, together!

If you are a startup or an individual wanting to convert your idea into a solid product to succeed in the market, you should probably give us a call. We have been helping many passionate entrepreneurs realise their dream of building world-changing software products. Let’s talk over coffee or a drink! 😉

Top 7 traits of a GoodWorkLabs Superstar –

#1 – We are innovators. We are constantly looking for bright minds, innovators and awesome programmers to join us.

#2 – We are passionate people. Passion drives us. We need passionate RoR, Java, iOS, Android and UI developers who want to make a mark in industry.

#3 – We are problem solvers. All our positions need excellent problem solving skills and indepth knowledge of data structures and computer programming concepts.

#4 – We are Agile animals, all the way. If you have Agile Software Development (Scrum) experience, it’s a plus.

#5 – We are Extreme Programmers. Experience in Extreme Programming methodologies of pair programming, TDD (test driven development), continuous integration and the like are a plus.

#6 – We are an evangelist of open source technologies. If you have contributed significantly to open source, we definitely want to hear from you. Share your GitHub link with us.

#7 – Age or experience no bar. Your code and algorithms do the talking. Period.

Experience levels described in careers section are just an indication. We are interested to work with passionate problem solvers whose coding does all the talking!

Become a superstar. Join us.

We have some exciting opportunities, take a look at our careers section.

Check out the interview of Sonia Sharma, Co-Founder and Managing Director of GoodWorkLabs. She inspires students to pursue entrepreneurship, talks about her journey in startups, how she is helping individuals and companies globally to bring out beautiful and solid apps and products that inspire the world.

Read complete interview on the BMS College blog here

Here are the excerpts from the interview –

Tell us something about your venture.

Sonia – I head GoodWorkLabs, a high-end software product consulting & delivery firm. We help companies / startup build software, mobile apps and gaming products. We are different from the vanilla services companies as we come with solid product building experience.

Most IT services companies fail to understand the needs of product building and do not possess the nitty-gritties of product lifecycle. They also fail to deliver top-notch quality and UX. That’s when we come in. We hand hold every aspect of product building, including competitor analysis, feature set recommendation, product roadmap, technology stack analysis, identifying a team to execute, the right architecture, etc. And then we also take up an integral role in go-to market strategy, feedback loop from beta customers, fine-tuning the software / business model and ultimately helping the firm succeed.

In other cases, for bigger global clients who know what they want, we build software products and global teams for them to take advantage of talent in Bangalore and other cities in India.

What is your philosophy towards work?

Sonia – I believe in excellence and delivering the best quality and it gets reflected towards the work we take up. The name of my company “GoodWorkLabs” reflects this philosophy

Whom do you admire as your role model? And why?

Sonia – There is no particular person that I can pinpoint. I look for fine little qualities in everybody, in little moments in my life and take inspiration from people.

Name 3 qualities of prime importance that a women entrepreneur should possess.

Sonia – Man or a woman, an entrepreneur should have these qualities:

1. Belief in themselves and confidence that they can change the world.

2. Passion

3. Perseverance

Do you think today’s economy is conducive for a new venture to start upon?

Sonia – There will never be such a thing called perfect time. It’s a myth. ‘Now’ is always the best time to start your venture. Your venture needs to solve one of the zillion odd problems in the current economy.

“Earning more & more is the motive behind any business.” Is it justifiable?

Sonia – I don’t see it as a problem unless you are earning money via unfair/illegal/immoral means. After all businesses are about making money. The way I look at it—the more business and growth your company achieves, the more employment you create, the more families your support, the more contribution you make towards your country and global economy.

Share with us the most enjoyable moment you had experienced on work.

Sonia – Well, I cannot pinpoint a moment but I enjoyed setting up GoodWorkLabs. Setting up your own venture is like a journey of unknown… it’s full or anticipation, , fear of unknown, happiness and a lot of adrenaline rush

Your message to the aspiring entrepreneurs?

Sonia – Be smart while starting up. If you are building a product company, create quick prototypes and get beta customers to validate the business model and product need. Connect with angels and other entrepreneurs. Be realistic in your approach and be lean in your burn rate. But at the end, passion and perseverance prevails everything else, because you will figure out a way to make your company successful. So just go for it and enjoy the journey.

GoodWorkLabs has a unique way to help companies build new products and enter the market. We only take few select customers at one point in time and fairly dedicate our entire time on building one product.

There are two aspects to build the product –

#1. Product Consulting

#2. Product Delivery

#1. Product Consulting involves the product requirements refining, defining the product priorities, identifying right technology, building a good UX model, speaking to clients to get feedback and finding right talent to work on the particular deliverables. Here we take over the role of a Product Owner and define user stories for every sprint, and make sure they are done according to the set standards.

One of the primary objective of the Product Owner is to save cost and quickly get the product built. For example, is it possible to use Sencha or PhoneGap framework and bring out iPhone and Android version at once? This will cut our development cost significantly. But what will be the long term impact? What is the trade off? Such inputs are never given by typical services companies, because they want to increase the billing.

The consulting aspect is absolutely required for the success of the product and it will ensure you save time/cost in product delivery.

#2. Product Delivery – Here we will work with the tech architects to come up with effort estimates and timelines. Also the budget for the team monthly against the deliverables. We want to help you with quick iterations (with sprints) and working models for you to showcase it to your customers to win business. We have an excellent team of software developers, UX/UI designers, architects and business analysts who are the best at what they do. We ensure your product will be top-notch and your customers will love it.

The third step would be to build a team and move out, whenever you want us to. This is something we have successfully done for number of companies, so we can do it for you. This is significant different from other services companies who work on piece meal projects and get out after delivering without understanding the customer go-to market and long term requirements.

GoodWorkLabs’s objective is to hand hold product development from scratch to go-to-market and beyond.

Take a look at our technology services – we work on mobile apps, software products, enterprise solutions, CMS/web projects and anything that need cool and solid tech.

Get in touch with us now to discuss about your product or technology needs.

Agile software development is a software development method based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross-functional teams.

There are many agile frameworks and they all follow the following statements of value:

• We value individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
• We value working software [or any product] over comprehensive documentation.
• We value customer collaboration over contract negotiation.
• We value responding to change over following a plan.

At GoodWorkLabs, we always follow Agile Methodologies of SCRUM and Extreme Programing for all our projects. It gives our customers a number of benefits that include quick time-to-market window, saving costs building only essential features to go to market, control of the roadmap and ability to change the direction of the project every sprint, measure quality at the end of every sprint, better risk management because you see a potential deployable product every sprint and so on.

Here’s a few good articles that help you understand more about agile and the key benefits.

1. 10 good reasons to use agile methods.

2. Benefits of agile development

3. What is Agile?