Posts Tagged ‘agile software development’

The world’s greatest racing drivers may be highly talented individuals, but without a talented team of mechanics and engineers keeping their vehicles in check, they can quickly fall behind the competition. When it comes to software, the same idea applies; great products can fail quickly without a strong focus on performance and optimization. Engineering and […]

Improving intercultural communications is essential to ensuring that your software development outsourcing initiatives succeed. Communication barriers stemming from cultural differences can result in significant problems that can lead to disastrous outcomes within any software development outsourcing project. Intercultural Communication and IT Outsourcing In a world in which organizations, and even countries, are seemingly constantly engaged […]

When working with an outsourcing partner, innovation is often an afterthought to the day to day insights and challenges that come with developing software. However, with the amount of value innovation can add to a software development outsourcing engagement, you’d be remiss to allow innovation to take a less prominent role. Innovating can offer invaluable […]

The current business and economic environment is one in which everyone is racing to be better than everyone else, especially in technology. Organizations and even countries are fighting to become leader of the pack. The only effective way to win the race, though, is by achieving excellence through expertise. Centers of Excellence (CoEs) can play […]

Here at Perficient Latin America, one of our secret weapons for delivering world-class software is performance engineering, a discipline that requires a broad focus on product performance during the entire software development lifecycle in nearshore outsourcing. The approach is different from regular quality assurance and testing, which is mainly centered on functionality. Instead, performance engineering is […]

The outsourcing market is undergoing constant evolution. Traditionally, cost reduction was the key driver for software development outsourcing, but now it doesn’t even make the top five, according to Deloitte’s 2018 Global Outsourcing Survey. Instead, the top five reasons organizations opt for IT outsourcing are: Catalyst for innovation (64%) Improvement of speed and time to […]

 Perficient Latin America senior software developer, Ximena Echeverri, joined us for a chat about the evolution of Perficient Latin America’s Software Girls into Women in Tech and what she likes most about working with Perficient Latin America. She’s got some great advice for anyone thinking about working at one of Colombia’s premier software development outsourcing […]

Today’s consumer and business environments no longer allow for waterfall software development. You can’t take years between each product release. In fact, in some cases, you can’t even afford to take months. At least, not if you want to maintain a competitive advantage. Precisely because of the need to deliver to market faster, the agile […]

The IT outsourcing market is massive considering that it generated $62 billion in revenues in 2018, and it will likely continue to grow. New business models, emerging technologies, and evolving consumer demands are key drivers of this growth. While outsourcing first started as a way for companies to cut costs, especially in relation to low-risk […]

When it comes to offshore software development outsourcing, companies need to ensure their software outsourcing partner has a robust automated testing program. It’s vital for all team members, whether outsourced or in-house, to be on the same page and share the same understanding of how testing is meant to impact and improve the product’s overall […]

It’s been a little over a decade since DevOps started to make its way into the mainstream of software development. But rather than experience a wane in popularity, it’s become integral to different areas of the software development lifecycle. DevOps, it seems, is going the way of Agile with the percentage of companies having adopted […]

Companies looking to develop microservices can find they’ve bitten off more than they can chew if they don’t properly anticipate several hurdles that come with microservices. In some situations, microservices can actually just be monoliths in disguise if teams aren’t careful. However, applying reactive principles can help teams overcome a number of these issues and […]