Hewlett Packard today shared details on six countries that will become its global delivery hubs for enterprise services: Bulgaria China Costa Rica India Malaysia Philippines What will be handled at these locations? Business Process Outsourcing IT outsourcing application development and management SAP implementation service desk global delivery work for clients financial functions CIO.com uncovered the […]
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ORID-A must have in your toolbox
“What is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversation?” Last week in the Agile Tour 2010 Hangzhou stop which was hosted by Perficient, the keynote speaker Jean Tabaka introduced a great method called ORID from a book titled “The art of focused conversation”, (the title contains both “Art” and “Conversation”:) From my […]
2010 fall campus recruiting in full swing
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 […]
Agile Noodle
I’m very lucky because there is a wonderful small restaurant right opposite to my apartment. They sell various noodles that taste great. Actually this restaurant is so famous that it attracts people from different areas of this city. Usually from 10:00 am there is already a long queue waiting for lunch. If you don’t get […]
Perficient China hosts the first stop of Agile Tour China
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 […]
The big difference between “can” and “can’t”
Me: I have received Jason’s mail, and I can get his points. The other side: …..Do you say you Can or you Can’t?.. Me: I have tested the new account, and I can access the web site. The other side: …..Do you mean you can or you can’t? These two paragraphs of exchange both happened […]
How distance impacts pair programming
Last week, by great chance, I observed two of my respected colleagues practicing pair programming for a job interview. Sitting two meters away, I noticed that during the process of implementation, they didn’t interact frequently. The interviewee was writing code on the computer, and the interviewer was contemplating the best way by drawing some sort […]
Establishing a Successful Support Arrangement – 4 Key Process Steps
Custom application support arrangements these days seems to share the following characteristics: Highly commoditized with high offshore ratios Poor levels of quality and meeting Service Level Agreements To some, the first would seem to beget the second. Specifically – IT organizations have seemed to come to almost expect very little from their on-call support other […]
The real life of a Scrum team – with photos
Recently while cleaning up my photo albums I found some interesting old pictures which were captured while I was leading a Scrum project. These white board pictures illustrate how we incrementally deliver from scratch. Looking at these pictures I really enjoy recollecting the days when I was working together with my team; days we spent […]
CMMI vs. Agile
These days we are preparing next year’s CMMI Level 5 reassessment and delivered a series of training about CMMI. So people are easy to compare CMMI and Agile when we were doing training. And somebody will say they are different and conflict. How can we implement them together? So what is the difference between CMMI […]
Of subjects and citizens, resources and people
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 […]
When overseas teams cannot fully understand US colleagues
I joined a conference call this morning and was quite happy because I understood much more of what my U.S. colleague was saying than I have on other calls. One of my Chinese colleagues recorded the meeting so that we can play it back to avoid missing any important points. When I listened to this […]