Author Archives: Hugo Messer

About Hugo Messer

Hugo Messer is a Dutch entrepreneur, distributed agile team specialist, and author. He is the founder and owner of Bridge Global, a software services provider, and ekipa.co., an agile coaching agency. He has been building and managing teams around the world for the past several years. His passion is to enable people that are spread across cultures, geography and time zones to cooperate. Whether it’s offshoring or nearshoring, he knows what it takes to make global cooperation work.

Openness and trust in offshore relationshipsOpenheid en vertrouwen in offshore relatiesÖppenhet och förtroende i offshorerelationerOffenheit und Vertrauen in Offshore Beziehungen

16 October 2012 Communication

I am reading a book called ‘100% succesvolle IT-projecten’, written by Klaas Jung and Gerard van de Looi. They write about the key success factors in IT projects. One of the chapters that stand out for me is about relationships and openness. …

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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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How to choose the right partner for outsourcing and offshoring: 5 stepsHoe de juiste partner voor outsourcing en offshoring kiezen: 5 stappen 5 steg till att välja rätt partner för outsourcing och offshoringWie man den richtigen Partner für Outsourcing und Offshoring auswählt: 5 Schritte

17 August 2012 Offshoring

Selecting a partner offshore or nearshore can be a daunting job. Companies are far away, the cultural habits are different. Nevertheless, I believe that below guidelines and questions can help you in the quest. 1. Start with asking yourself why …

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Conservatism and the benefits of a global workforceConservatisme en de voordelen van een wereldwijd personeelsbestandKonservatism och fördelarna med en global arbetsstyrkaKonservatismus und die Vorteile von einer weltweiten Belegschaft

1 August 2012 Cultural Differences

Organisations are traditionally: a place where people gather to work on something they are specialized in to create a certain service or product. Last century this place was often a factory and in the second half of the century, we …

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5 Cultural Tips for Managing Global Teams

10 July 2012 Outsourcing

Avi Elkoni wrote an article for our blog about the 5 lethal mistakes in offshore software development. The first lethal mistake is downplaying cultural differences. I absolutely agree that culture has a big impact on globally distributed software projects. I …

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