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.

How far can offshoring go? Hoe ver kan offshoring gaan?Hur långt kan offshoring gå?Wie weit kann Offshoring gehen?

The Hackett Group published an interesting research about the future of offshoring. They did the research among 4700 companies with $1 billion in turnover or more. The researchers predict that by 2016, 2.3 million jobs will have been moved offshore …

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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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The impact of offshoring on your businessDe invloed van offshoring op uw bedrijfInverkan av offshoring på ditt företagDie Auswirkungen von Offshoring auf ihr Unternehmen

I recently published an article on the famous Dutch IT magazine ‘Computable‘. In response to this article, I received some questions from Reza Sarshar of interaccess. The questions are interesting and I want to address all of them in this article. 1. What …

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What Tools Do You Use for Managing Global Teams?

Managing global teams requires a solid structure and the right (software) tools. I often get the question of what tools we use in our company. I am always surprised when I show someone our project management tool, what impression it makes on …

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What is the secret to success in offshoring?Wat is de sleutel tot succes bij offshoring?Vad är nyckeln till framgång i offshoring?Was ist das Erfolgsgeheimnis von Offshoring?

As with anything in the world, there is no holy grail to make something work. In offshoring, there are many factors that influence the success of your projects. But I believe that there are 2 things that determine the success …

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