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.

The 5 key success factors in offshore software development

If you have considered outsourcing or offshoring software development recently, you may have thought about the key success factors to ‘make it work’. In the past years, I have gained substantial experience in how to (and how not to) manage …

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Outsourcing: the future?

I found an article about outsourcing, which gives us a very clear overview of where we were and where we are going in outsourcing. I work on my international outsourcing vision every day and I often wonder ‘where will we be …

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The role of people in the success of offshoring

In my previous article, I wrote about personal values in the offshoring context. In this article I want to discuss the role of people in making offshoring work. Some questions related to this subject: Who are the people in my …

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What role do your personal values have on your offshoring decisions?

I just wrote a comment on Computable, a famous Dutch IT newspaper; the article discusses a research from Ordina about the under estimation of the human side in outsourcing. Speaking about the human side of outsourcing puts two central subjects …

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Setting up a team in your own office or offshore?

If you are working in IT, I think that you have pondered over this question somewhere in the recent past? Two or three years ago, when the economies were booming, the main question was ‘how can I attract the talent …

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