Posts Tagged ‘Communication’

In a video interview I recently recorded with Steven Scott, general manager of our healthcare practice, and Martin Sizemore, principal of healthcare strategy, we discussed the reasons why someone should consider a career at Perficient within our healthcare team. These reasons to build your career here are also strong factors for working in healthcare IT […]

Effective communication by BI teams creates better relationships with business users regardless of the development methodology employed.  Providing: a clear picture of the team’s service offerings before the project, project insight during the project, and ongoing visibility after the project are the triad of effective BI communication and are nearly always a significant part of […]

Time and Materials projects are based on hourly, weekly or monthly charges per person. It offers more flexibility and is more suitable for projects that: The initial scope is not defined precisely enough to make a reasonable estimation. The client would like to make changes frequently as they go. The project scope and requirements evolve […]

Pam Baker at ReadWriteWeb posted an interesting article this morning advocating the atomization and integration of enterprise software. She argues that integration and accessibility are becoming as important as features and functionality. Remember the old days, when a mainframe or PC operating system dictated what corporations would buy and support? They seem so quaint now. “Anything […]

(via ePatientDave) You know how in science fiction movies the alien/human language barrier is overcome by some tiny electronic universal translator that instantaneously allows each party of a conversation to speak and listen in their native language? Google’s new voice-enabled Google Translate app (currently available for Android, iPhone likely coming soon) brings us one step […]

“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The first type of No Communication is very simple: nada, none, no acknowledgment, and zero feedback. Here’s an example. Our project was at a critical juncture and we ran into a few important questions. I wrote an email message carefully explaining the issues and sent it to Joe, our lead BA and product owner. I […]

In my experience, a project’s success is dependent on having good communciation between the onshore and offshore teams, and a liaison can make this process much easier.  We have had several projects which have involved our China team and a liaison who has travelled to the U.S. to help with communication and keeping both teams […]