Stephan Schwab

We’ve done it!

Caimito One Team 1.0 is out the door. Yesterday our development team in Panama finished the last tasks on our first product Caimito One Team 1.0 and published our new website.

Caimito One Team is an Agile Collaboration and Planning tool aimed at small and medium sized teams. Read more on our website at www.caimito.net.

Thursday and Friday of this week we presented at the first PanamaJUG conference in Chitre. This event, as I announced in September, marks a big milestone in the development of the Panamanian JUG and in the work of Aristides Villareal who is professor at the regional center Azuero of Universidad Tecnologica in Los Santos.

Attendence was very good. We had between 50 – 80 attendees, many of them students. It was not a free event. They each paid $35 for students and $50 for professionals to cover the costs of the conference center, meals and equipment.

Fidel Chavarria, developer at my company Caimito Technologies, presented our agile project management tool Savila and as well the Workbench, which is a compilation of tools like Continuum, Maven, Subversion and Savila pre-packaged as a VMware image and ready to use.

My presentation was about An Agile Organization and Scrum similar to the talks I gave earlier in Tampa and Miami but with slides translated into Spanish.

I just finished uploading some of my own pictures at Flickr. A few more pictures can be found at Janice Campbell‘s blog who is Globalization Program Manager at Sun Microsystems. Follow these links:

• First PanamaJUG Congress
• Camino a Chitre
• PanamaJUG Conference Day 2

Many more pictures were taken and I will update this blog post once they will be available.

Update:

Aristides created a series of animations based on pictures taking during the 2-day event:
Janice,
Fabiola,
Augusto,
Gerardo,
Tomasz,
Brian,
Fidel,
Rodrigo,
Stephan,
Workshops,
Assistents,
Raffle

Wired Magazine in The Micro-Multinational:
Venture capitalists now routinely demand that the companies they finance outsource what labor they can. Yogen Dalal, a partner at Mayfield, says more than half the companies he funds have offshore workers. The Valley even has a name for these startups: micro-multinationals.

That’s some very interesting idea. Further down in the article it says:

The president and chief executive of Solidcore, Rosen Sharma, is an unapologetic fan of outsourcing. “We were a micro-multinational from day one. It didn’t mean I hired fewer people in the US,” he says. “It meant that I could hire more people in sales and marketing, because I didn’t have to concentrate on building R&D in America.”

So, if you are a startup company working on some consumer oriented project or other project where you would like to do more in marketing and sales, you might want to consider outsourcing to a place nearby and within your timezone. My company Caimito Technologies operates out of an office in Panama (2.5 hours south of Miami; next to the famous Panama Canal) and we might be able help to you with your development efforts.