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.

Why focus on requirements?

10 September 2009 Outsourcing

I just read an interesting article from Bob Larivee of AIIM (‘Requirements, we don’t need any requirements’ ) about the importance of requirements. He writes ‘Know where you want to go and how you want to work then address the …

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The adventures of Bridge “building” a company in India.

27 August 2009 Bridge news

The adventures of Bridge “building” a company in India.

Bridge India

In the end of 2007, Bridge decided to set up an office in India to support the growing demand from our Dutch customers. We opened an office in Cochin and the first programmer (Aneesh) joined in June 2008. One year later, our team has grown to almost 20 people and we have successfully entered the Swedish and German market.The adventures of Bridge “building” a company in India.

Bridge India

In the end of 2007, Bridge decided to set up an office in India to support the growing demand from our Dutch customers. We opened an office in Cochin and the first programmer (Aneesh) joined in June 2008. One year later, our team has grown to almost 20 people and we have successfully entered the Swedish and German market.The adventures of Bridge “building” a company in India.

Bridge India

In the end of 2007, Bridge decided to set up an office in India to support the growing demand from our Dutch customers. We opened an office in Cochin and the first programmer (Aneesh) joined in June 2008. One year later, our team has grown to almost 20 people and we have successfully entered the Swedish and German market.The adventures of Bridge “building” a company in India.

Bridge India

In the end of 2007, Bridge decided to set up an office in India to support the growing demand from our Dutch customers. We opened an office in Cochin and the first programmer (Aneesh) joined in June 2008. One year later, our team has grown to almost 20 people and we have successfully entered the Swedish and German market.

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Benefit from web 2.0: offshoring & open source

26 August 2009 Offshoring

One of the major denominators of web 2.0 is ‘online collaboration’. As Don Tapscott puts it in his book ‘wikinomics’: ‘The old notion that you have to attract, develop, and retain the best and brightest inside your corporate boundaries is …

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Have you ever outsourced a web project that became a complete failure?

20 August 2009 Outsourcing

Have you ever outsourced a web project to an offshore supplier, getting completely stressed because it all looked very promising but in the end the project just never finished? Or you simply had to redo everything yourself? If you did, …

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How Twitter becomes important for your marketing?

14 August 2009 Soft Skills

As many of our customers are into web development, we try to stay ahead of trends on the internet. The past few weeks we have spent substantial time trying to figure out how we can best use Twitter to the …

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