Category Archives: Managing remote team

What can and cannot be done remotely?Wat kan er wel en niet op afstand gedaan worden?Vad kan och vad kan inte göras på distans?Was kann und was kann nicht in der Ferne ausgeführt werden?

12 September 2012 Communication

In the Netherlands, home-working has been growing rapidly in the past years. Existing companies are stimulating people to work (partly) from home, creating flexible desks in their offices. Many people become freelancers and work where and when they want. And …

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Five lethal mistakes in offshore software developmentVijf grote fouten in offshore softwareontwikkeling Fem farliga misstag med offshorad mjukvaruutvecklingFünf tödliche Fehler bei der Offshore-Softwareentwicklung

As I’m sure you’ve heard, there are far-away lands where the best and brightest youths flock to science and technology schools. They emerge a few years later in hoards of brilliant and eager software developers. Why not put them to …

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What is the role of empathy in an offshoring context?Wat voor rol speelt empathie in een offshoring context?Vad spelar empati för roll i ett offshoringsammanhang?Was ist die Rolle von Empathie in einem Offshoring-Kontext?

Last week, I gave a presentation at the Technical University in Delft and one of my topics was ’empathy’. I always get some questioning faces when I present a slide with a definition of empathy on it. Normally, technologists get taught about …

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How software developers can overcome Cross-Cultural Communication mistakes in IT offshoring?

The IT talent pool available in India is highly skilled. These educated IT professionals are good English speakers. They should always try to go that extra mile in cross-cultural communication to understand customer’s needs when working on an IT offshore …

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Managing Agile Projects

More and more organizations are adopting Agile ways of working. The descriptions of Agile methods give much guidance on how to work agile on the team level. They describe the practices and support the set-up of Agile teams. But there …

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