Hi, I'm John Evons, a web entrepreneur and eCommerce leader living in Portland, OR. I create incredible digital experiences that change the way we interact with the world's largest retailers.

Topics I'm Trending

These are a few of the the topics and capabilities that I am focusing on with my clients.

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  • Future-Friendly Thinking

    "Disruption will only accelerate. The quantity and diversity of connected devices—many of which we haven't imagined yet—will explode, as will the quantity and diversity of the people around the world who use them..."

  • Answer the Why?

    Why do your customers love the products you sell?  Why do they need this new feature or capability you’re building?  If you struggle to “answer the why” it may be a good indication that you are building something that doesn’t add value or solve a pain.

  • Continuous Integration

    By establishing a continuous integration environment with a test driven development approach, you will be able to automate your regression suite and evaluate quality throughout the development process.

From the Blog

Here are my latest thoughts on life, work, and everything in between.

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  • Continuous Integration: Instilling Quality Early & Often

    As strategic business visions continue to push the boundaries on technology solutions, the need for a real-time approach to quality has become increasingly important. With the transition from waterfall to agile, engineering teams went from multi-month, milestone release schedules, to 2-4 week tactical sprints; bringing visibility and exposure to demonstrable functionality.

  • ATG Commerce 9.2 Functional Design Accelerator

    For all of my friends out there that spend time working with clients to visualize what a customization to the BCC (business control center) would look like in ATG 9.2, I have made your lives a little easier. Below you will see two files 1) a custom Visio shape stencil that can be imported into [...]

  • Collective Buying Power: Google & Groupon; Amazon & LivingSocial

    With the news abuzz around Google’s deal with Groupon falling through (a rumored $6B deal), one has to wonder why Google was so interested in acquiring a group coupon start-up in the first place… here’s why: Changing the Success Metric: Having tackled the coupon and promotions industry in the past, one of the biggest hurdles [...]