Aviram Eisenberg's Blog (10)

Ignite is looking for a .NET guru/Technical team leader to manage an offshore project for one of its customers Required Skill set: - 5+ years of hands-on experience in .NET, namely C# Winforms, WCF and WPF - Strong experience in managing an R&D team - Excellent problem-solving skills - Excellent guidance skills for junior developers - Bottleneck resolver, bulldozer - Offshore management experience – advantage Position description - Full time employment (or close to it) for three months… Continue

Ignite, a dynamic and rising Israeli software development firm, is looking for a freelance talented web UI team leader Required skill set: - Strong knowledge web development: HTML, CSS, Java Script - Strong knowledge in AJAX, web services, XML and XSLT - Strong knowledge in C# - Knowledge in Flex – a plus - Knowledge in Silverlight – a plus - Experience in managing offshore teams – a plus Contact Aviram Eisenberg at Aviram@igniteoutsourcing.com for more details http://www.igniteoutsourcing.co… Continue

Ignite, as a leading body of knowledge for Agile best practices and as the only provider in Israel that practices distributed Scrum and offshore agile methodologies, is proud to invite you to the first Israeli Scrum Conference, which will be held on December 9th 2008, 9:00 - 16:00, at the Hilton Hotel Tel Aviv. The agenda of this conference includes: Keynote speaker Ken Schwaber, Scrum founder Keynote speaker Jim Cundiff, managing director of the Scrum Allianc… Continue

We are currently looking for talented PHP developers to work on a high profile project for one of the leading media companies in the U.S. It could be partial employment or freelance engagement (pay by the hour or retainer based).

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Ignite's Agile Development Methodology at a glance

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Whoever has experienced outsourcing a software project, either as a supplier or a client, can appreciate the following advantages afforded by Agile development in the context of an offshore project:

• In order to give feedback, the client receives monthly deliveries instead of waiting for the finished product, at which stage most of the budget will be spent and budgetary flexibility will be virtually reduced to zero.

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Agile development recognizes that in reality the development process is spiral and involves frequent "regressions" to earlier phases, and creates an iterative process that imitates reality. It breaks the project down into short development cycles, generally monthly or bi-monthly. Each of these cycles covers detailed design, development and testing of the software segment - a working application with some of the desired functionality starting from the first milestone. Most importa

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The best way to demonstrate the simple concept of agile development is through an example:

A few months ago I traveled to India and Thailand for my honeymoon.

When my wife and I arrived to Bangkok, I decided (like many other business men visiting Thailand) to seize the opportunity and get myself a real "Armani-like" suit, tailored just for me by a local tailor.

We visited a number of stores that spec

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Imagine a construction project in India implemented for an American client. The project has been estimated, priced and initiated although no building blue prints were produced. The client has never visited the construction site, nor has he met the project manager or any of the construction staff. The client has not yet firmly decided whether to build a residential tower or a shopping mall. In a regular weekly phone conversation, the Indian project manager generally reports that t

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