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 do you prepare for offshoring?Hoe bereidt u zich voor op offshoring?How do you prepare for offshoring?How do you prepare for offshoring?

26 October 2010 Offshoring

If you have recently wondered if offshoring could work for you or if you have even already started offshoring some of your works, you may have asked yourself ‘what should I do to prepare’? Or you might have acted like …

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Offshoring: should governments embrace or fight it?Offshoring: moeten overheden er voor gaan of er tegen vechten?Offshoring: should governments embrace or fight it?Offshoring: should governments embrace or fight it?

14 October 2010 Offshoring

Every time a big company announces to open an offshore/nearshore center or fire people, the media and many other people protest. HP announced 2 things at the same time: they will fire 1300 people in the UK + they open …

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Building a dedicated team: what can it bring to me?Een toegewijd team creëren: wat levert mij dat op?Building a dedicated team: what can it bring to me?Building a dedicated team: what can it bring to me?

27 September 2010 Offshoring

There are many reasons why companies from Europe or the United States outsource work to India or Eastern Europe. The most frequently heard driver for offshoring are obviously ‘costs’. In this post, I want to describe a case of one …

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We have a process, don’t we? We hebben een proces, toch?We have a process, don’t we? We have a process, don’t we?

22 September 2010 Offshoring

In the past years, I have been learning the hard way how important processes are as a basis for a company to grow. As an entrepreneur or manager, you set out to establish something, to work towards that point on …

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The Swedish IT marketDe Zweedse IT marktThe Swedish IT marketThe Swedish IT market

16 September 2010 Offshoring

I have visited Stockholm this week to visit a few of our Swedish customers and to speak to some prospective customers. My general conclusion is that offshoring is even more important for the future of the Swedish IT industry than …

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