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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.

If offshoring doesn’t provide the desired results, what do you focus on?Als offshoring niet de verwachte resultaten geeft, waar focust u dan op?Om offshoring inte levererar dom väntade resultaten, vad bör vi då fokusera på?Wenn Offshoring nicht die gewünschten Ergebnisse liefert, worauf konzentrieren Sie sich dann?

Hugo Messer 9 June 2011 Offshoring

It is not easy to make offshoring work. It is not easy to work across borders, cultures and languages. If you have been involved in (managing) an offshore team, you probably had days that you were pulling out your …

Is offshoring creating or destroying jobs? Is it good or bad?Creërt offshoring banen of vernietigt ze deze juist? Is het goed of slecht?Skapar eller förstör offshoring arbetsmöjligheter? Är det bra eller dåligt?Erschafft oder zerstört Offshoring Jobs? Ist es gut oder schlecht?

Hugo Messer 31 May 2011 Offshoring

I read and talk a lot about offshoring and global staffing and one discussion frequently pops up: is it good or bad to hire people from India? Does it destroy jobs in my home country? There is quite some …

Oral versus written communication in offshoring

Hugo Messer 10 May 2011 Communication

People who engage in offshoring, have a natural, human inclination to ‘just start communicating’. My experience has made me think a lot about the most effective way of communicating in an offshoring context. If you are involved in managing an …

Does offshoring success depend on the ‘shore’ or the people?Hangt het success van offshoring af van de ‘shore’ of van de mensen?Does offshoring success depend on the ‘shore’ or the people?Hängt der Erfolg von Offshoring von dem “Shore” oder von den Leuten ab??

Hugo Messer 20 April 2011 Offshoring

A friend sent me this Dilbert illustration; I had to study it several times to conclude what’s the main message to me. You could interpret it in many ways; for me it drives home one thing: the success of offshoring depends on people, not on ‘bestshore, nearshore, rightshore, offshore or farshore’. The offshoring industry has come up with many confusing definitions to describe a simple thing: hiring people from another country to do a project or (parts of) a process. (For an interesting thought article on terminology, read this article of Gavin Bowden-Hall).

Implementing an effective software development process: Agile, Scrum, CMMI and where to start

Hugo Messer 13 April 2011 Soft Skills

The common way of organizing software projects in most software firms is (or was) the waterfall method. Most firms don’t choose this process deliberately, but grow into it, because it’s a natural human way to get organized. It has its …