While Russian power grows with Siberia, as our famous scientist Michael Lomonosov said, Sibers’ power grows with our Bishkek office, which was opened a year ago. It was quite a fruitful year, and Sibers’ top management represented by Yuriy Bannov and Alex Shpak visited this mountainous land to celebrate the event.... read more →
Our October results show stable and steady rise in production, which is thanks to all the staff contribution. The month turned out loaded, and we grew both extensively and intensively — Sibers welcomed its 100th employee and has demonstrated good performance. S&M department brought 16 new projects; HR department processed 83 resumes and conducted 6 qualifying evaluations; our social projects are being implemented and some new ones are under development; infrastructure is constantly improving. The rise is continuous and systematic, which is a factor of stability... read more →
By Serge Markov, CEO: I have just returned from a vacation to Italy, where I spent a good time with my family and also had a wonderful opportunity to meet some of our clients. The meetings were warm and hearty with plenty of both official and informal talks and communication... read more →
On Friday, we spent all evening reviewing our results in March. Many of our colleagues were decided to be awarded with a bonus. We had a very productive month: the turnover has increased comparing to February. That is a significant achievement of our Sales Managers. The CTO Department spent most of its efforts estimating a large project and preparing detailed technical specifications for it. Most probably, the project will be put to development in April-May. Our Project Managers performed shock work and ensured going ahead of the plan.... read more →
This week our Sales department is breaking its records and we put 9 new long-term projects into development. Without disclosing our clients’ private information, I just mention technologies the projects are in. 1 project for MacOSX 1 project in .Net/Windows Forms 1 Flash project 2 PHP projects 2 Java projects (for web) 1 VoIP project And we launched architecture and specifications phase for a large Internet project. It’s good to mention that several projects are our return clients who decided to give us new work.... read more →
One of the most important aspects in the entire pre-development phase is producing accurate relevant estimates and proposals. This work is a responsibility of our Sales Managers and CTO Team. This week we had a seminar organized by the CTO Group for our Team Leaders. CTO Andrey Gavrilov explained the Team Leaders the core factors of a good estimate and how to put together a technical proposal... read more →
A lot of hype these days is about October’s article in eLance and NewsWeek magazine concerning discussion at digg.com and in particular the fact that initial investment into development into well-known digg.com was as little as $200. What I got from the discussion with reference to our experience:... read more →
Last week all blogs were filled with information about announcements of iPhone on CES. According to the article at Time.com, Apple did a lot of work about this device, and for the last 2 years we heard a lot of rumours about this gadget. Opinions are very different as all about what Apple creates (Think different?, Right). Anyway I’m anxious to see it available in our cellphone stores, and first of all for our development team. As the media described, software for the device is based on MacOS , which we, of course, can support... read more →
Martin Fowler, “author, speaker, consultant and general loud-mouth on software development” described his experience with offshore development and using agile practices, which we apply in most our projects, as follows: “For the last four years ThoughtWorks has operated a lab in Bangalore India to support our software development projects in North America and Europe. Traditional approaches to offshore development are based on plan-driven methodologies, but we are very firmly in the agile camp. Here I discuss our experiences and lessons learned in doing offshore agile development. So far we’ve discovered that we can make it work, although the benefits are still open to debate.” Let me express my opinion about practices he described... read more →
Many of our customers and partners from western world may be very curious about our long holidays and come with the question ‘What do Russian Programmers do on New Year holidays?’ That’s right, we do celebrate much more about New Year and less about Christmas. We had 10 days off and usually I (and our other people) spend this on:... read more →