The excitement and momentum from the fall 2014 announcement of Perficient’s new domestic delivery center (DDC) in Lafayette, LA, carried right into the start of operations there this year. Perficient announced the establishment of the center during a news conference in September, and the doors officially opened in November. Colleagues began working in the space […]
Optimized Global Delivery
VIDEO: Perficient Global Delivery Center Named a Best Employer in China
In December 2014, colleagues in Perficient’s China office took great pride in accepting a Best Employer Award from Zhaopin.com at the annual Sanya Forum. In the video above, Chinese television station CZTV interviewed Iris Luo, a senior talent acquisition specialist at Perficient, about the benefits of working at Perficient China. The China Best Employer Awards are […]
Agile Tour 2014 HangZhou Stop was held at Perficient China GDC
December 6th, as the sponsorship role, Perficient China GDC held the Agile Tour 2014 HangZhou Stop successfully. 106 Agile fans gathered in 6F of ShuiYou Building from 8:30 AM to 17:00 PM and enjoyed an one day Agile Tour.
The Architect Role in Offshore Development Projects
“The best architectures, requirements, and designs emerge from self-organizing teams.” – One of the agile principles. Whenever I see an offshore delivery project where the architect is super busy on implementing/coding a particular feature and has little time to communicate with the development team, most likely the project is running into trouble… So, what should […]
Perficient Establishes Domestic Delivery Center in Lafayette, LA
This morning I had the privilege to stand alongside Perficient President and CEO Jeff Davis, as well as Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, to announce that Perficient will establish a domestic delivery center in Lafayette, Louisiana.The addition of the Lafayette-based delivery center will augment our global delivery centers in China, India and Macedonia, which for more […]
Innovation and offshore
I’ve read some interesting articles lately regarding how to get your offshore partner to innovate. One in CIO magazine; http://bit.ly/dl9YJB covered the topic pretty well with regard to what you have to change to spark innovation. But I’d like to add some specific areas where a multi-shore arrangement can transcend the usual SLA / price […]
How much effort should be spent communicating with an offshore team?
Currently more and more projects are multi-shore in a lot of big companies. Clients always ask us one question: How much effort needs to be spent to communicate with offshore teams if we work with one. It is one concern from clients that they need to spend more time to communicate with offshore team and usually […]
Offshore IP Protection
One of the most frequent questions I get asked regarding moving project work offshore is around Intellectual Property (IP) protection. Often, this question is asked based on perception that doing software work offshore, inherently puts a company’s IP at greater risk than how work is done today at that company. While there are certainly safe-guards […]