April 30, 2004On April 30 DataArt held its first pool tournament, with two leagues playing a number of friendly matches. Danil Chertok and Artem Zacharov, winners of the first league, refused to play aginst each other since they are working together on the same project - an indication of just how strong DataArt team spirit is! Congratulations to both of them on their victory, and also to Anton Bagrov, who took a clear victory in the second league. We hope this competition will mark the beginning of a new corporate event - pool Thursday.
DataArt has completed an Internet data collection panel development project for Universal Survey Center ("USC").
April 29, 2004DataArt has been working in cooperation with Octopus Networking, a New York-based IT services consultancy, for the last year to produce customized market research applications on behalf of USC. Says Benjamin Irvine, Octopus's CTO: "DataArt helped us develop a .NET driven web application that could be integrated with USC's existing legacy systems to enable real time reporting of survey data. They delivered successive phases of this rapidly evolving application during an intense schedule of political exit polls." Please visit www.universalsurvey.com for more information.
DataArt continues its educational program.
April 27, 2004The first of DataArt’s Project Management Practices seminars was held today. These seminars describe the process of project management in DataArt, beginning with the basic rules and ending with possible modifications that can be made to the process for even greater Client satisfaction. The target audience of these seminars is the Project Managers and Coordinators, but, in line with DataArt’s policy of maximum possible transparency, all company employees are free to participate.
The seminars aroused heated discussion among participants - such exchanges have always helped DataArt to optimize processes and deal with them more efficiently.
DataArt attends WIT conference.
April 27, 2004On April 27, DataArt took part in the WIT offshoring conference held at the Logistics Management Institute, where Eugene Goland attended as one of a panel of project management and offshoring experts. Most participants in the conference were IT managers and executives from small and mid-size companies considering future offshoring partnerships. Issues covered included political climate, the rising popularity of offshoring, best practices for US-based business and problems that are to be expected. It was noted that most IT outsourcing practices still apply to offshoring, and that particular attention should be paid to communication.
DataArt's Saturday Club.
April 24, 2004At the fourth meeting of DataArt's Saturday Club on April 24, the key issue covered was career building at DataArt and elsewhere. A presentation was given, covering the following:
How careers are formed in large and small companies
Overt and implicit hierarchies and attitudes to them
Typical situations and how people behave in them
What works at DataArt and how, and what the company wants from ambitious employees
The presentation was followed by a question and answer session.
