Webinars Archive

The move to Agile software development practices has been particularly challenging for both internationalization and localization activities. When globalization objectives need to fit in three-week sprints, a lack of understanding and coordination among various company stakeholders can exacerbate problems and increase costs. In this webinar recording, Yuka Kurihara, Director of Localization at Pitney Bowes, joins Adam Asnes and Olivier Libouban of Lingoport, and Adam Blau of Milengo to highlight strategies and examples for effectively implementing software globalization efforts within Agile. Yuka will demonstrate and discuss her efforts managing localization at Pitney Bowes, while working with her company’s Agile initiatives. The

Good, quick, cheap – pick any two. Localization project managers will tell you this project triangle is the way it has to be. We posted this question on several LinkedIn groups in order to hear the opinions and insights of a wide variety of fellow industry professionals (customer and vendor-side) and, oh boy, it seems like everyone has a strong opinion on this topic. The discussion on LinkedIn inspired us to take this discussion to a different level and actually have industry experts talk about it in a virtual roundtable. The goal of this virtual roundtable is to stimulate debate,

Internationalization and localization for medical products tends to have special case business drivers and can take on life-and-death importance. First, there’s adapting products for better worldwide sales, but often issues like reducing liabilities and saving lives drive the process just a bit differently. In this one-hour webinar recording, Adam Asnes, CEO of Lingoport, and Jason Heaton, Marketing Manager at Foreign Exchange Translations, discuss basic principles and processes that make medical products different.

It’s not uncommon for software companies to be realizing 40, 50 or even over 60% of their sales from markets outside their home country. Yet engineering and localizing software releases often remains a “tail end” process, with all kinds of clean up, delays and costs. When combined with an agile cycle of rapid releases, keeping code internationalized and well documented can be even more of a challenge. Watch this webinar recording on internationalizing and documenting code in an agile environment as special guest Mike McKenna, Globalization Manager at Yahoo, shares his experiences with Agile development.