East Agile

I was surpised to read in an old mail (below) how little this vision has changed since 1996. The company name has changed. We've found Vietnam works far better than India today. But we still have the vision of bringing specialists together to work collaboratively on projects, and our focus on small companies and individuals. What has changed is that we now radically tranform the effectiveness of outsourcing and offshore development by exceptional adherence to Agile Development Methods, including eXtreme Programming and elements of Scrum. After a long search, these methods are the magic in...

Hours of Operations With the exception of these holidays, East Agile’s core operating hours are 9am to 6pm, Monday through Friday (IST, Indochina Standard Time, UTC +7). See http://bit.ly/tq3Ijs to translate to your time zone. Holidays Our office in Vietnam has limited staff during the...

In the Agile Software development world, Ping Pong is somewhat of a meme. There is even an paired programming Test Driven Develeopment (TDD) practice called "Ping Pong". In this practice, two programmers work together on the same software feature; one writes automated tests that pass w...

Hours of Operation With the exception of these holidays, East Agile Vietnam (EAVN) is opened from 9am until 6pm, Monday through Friday (IST, Indochina Standard Time, UTC +7). Holidays Our office in Vietnam has limited staff during the following holidays in 2011. 1. New Year’s Day (...

Our friend and client Adam Beguelin founded sensr.net; East Agile developed the original version. This TechCrunch coverage attests to sensr's recent success: http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/26/sensr-net-raises-1-5-million-cloud-based-video-monitoring-platform/

"John Wolper, Cabulous: ...mentioned a team called East Agile, which developed some of the analytics tools that he uses." http://www.intelliot.com/2010/01/iphone-in-vietnam/

A VC: Outsourcing vs Offshoring Sep 20, 2010 "...AVC community member Ken Berger has been involved in building a strong team of ruby engineers in Vietnam. I have no doubt that team can do excellent work at a fraction of the cost of a team of ruby engineers in San Francisco or New York&quo...

"East Agile ...has retained its firm commitment to pair programming and a rigorous application of Agile process ...counting among its clients twitter.com ...and jibe.com." http://alkimie.com/?p=184

Twitter Now Has 300 Employees "Agreed. Pretty small team compared to their online footprint and buzz. I assume that outsource some of their work to outside firms. Anyone know how much? I recall Pivotal Labs and East Agile did some dev work for them. " http://mashab...

Agile Estimation Of Iterations If you haven’t done so already, take a moment to read the blog on Reliable Estimates Using Agile. In this blog, I will talk about the actual process of estimating an iteration and specifically how we do it at East Agile. I had the chance to take a cl...