Dr. Smiju Sudevan, is currently working as an Assistant Professor in Information Systems at Cochin University of Science and Technology. He has seventeen years of professional experience in teaching Information Systems at university level in both national and international colleges like BITS-Pilani and MCBS, Oman. He has over two years of work experience in UST Global, as a senior executive. Dr Smiju holds a MTech in software engineering and a PhD in software project management from Cochin University of Science and Technology, India. The main research areas of his interest are Software engineering and Software project management with emphasis on Stakeholder management along with agile methodologies. He has completed his PostDoc from IIT, Hyderabad while working as the project manager for Suzuki V2X Project. He is a member of PMI, Scrum Allianze ,ACM and IEEE. Dr Smiju Sudevan has delivered numerous workshops and seminars on project management nationally and internationally and has also published numerous papers in reputed journals.