Vernon Stinebaker

It’s hard to believe that we’re already in August. The year is literally flying by. It’s been some time since I’ve blogged, and it’s not because there isn’t plenty to blog about; it’s a matter of finding the time to do so. Since my last blog entry (back in April — ouch!) things have been […]

There’s a great article in the online version of the Wall Street Journal titled “For RIM, Less Research Could Mean More Motion“. There are a couple of choice quotes from the article that parallel what I always try to share with others when I am talking about the business benefits of agile.

Just a few weeks ago we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the drafting of the Agile Manifesto. To celebrate the 10 year anniversary many of the original signatories along with some other agile proponents got together to review what has happened during the past 10 years and to consider the future. There are numerous blog […]

The Scrum Alliance invited me to write a brief article about my work in China. The article is now posted on the front page of the Scrum Alliance website. Drive by and take a look when you have some time.

Recently I’ve been a bit disappointed with a couple of the editorials in Dr. Dobb’s, an old standby that I’ve been reading for over 20 years, but today’s editorial about TDD is spot on. If you’re interested agile software development you should check it out; and if you’re questioning how and where design fits in […]

This past week we’ve celebrated an agile milestone: 10 years since the signing of the Agile Manifesto. This event seems to have spawned a lot of interest and questions around agile, including a question someone ask on one of the LinkedIn groups I monitor. Nokia Demise: Is Agile to Blame? I’ve fallen for the bait […]

As my colleagues and I have described in other posts, Perficient China has been a pioneer in areas of CMMI and agile. We were the first CMMI Level 5 appraised company in Zhejiang province, and perhaps the only company in China to be assessed at this level using an agile approach to project delivery. A common […]

Each year we do one or two rounds of campus recruiting. We’re currently finishing up our second round for this year with campus recruiting activities taking place at 5 universities including universities in the neighboring cities of Ningbo and Nanjing. We’ve been quite successful with campus recruiting in the past resulting in it becoming one […]

In 2009 Perficient China hosted our first Hangzhou Scrum Forum. The event attracted more than 75 participants from Hangzhou, Shanghai and across China. Feedback on the event was overwhelmingly positive so we decided to make it an annual event. As another series of agile events, the Agile Tour China stops were being planned around the same […]

A couple of months back, the day before Independence Day, an interesting article appeared in the Washington Post.  The author of the article notes that while many words were crossed out in the draft, only one word was obliterated. There had long been speculation about the smear around the word “citizen”. Using spectral imaging technology […]

I ran across a great article today titled How to be Productive: Stop Working. Our industry at large seems to have a difficult time with this concept, and something I frequently encounter when talking with people about agile is the misconception that agile requires that teams work only 40 hours per week. How are these […]

Several members of our Hangzhou team attended the first official Scrum Alliance Gathering in China this past Monday and Tuesday. Two members of the team, myself and Abel Shen, a Sr. Engineer and fellow Multi Shoring blogger, were invited speakers to the event. Mary Jiang, another of our Multi Shoring bloggers and another colleague, Garriot […]