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.

Is managing remote teams different from managing a local team?Is het managen van een team op afstand anders dan het managen van een lokaal team?Är det någon skillnad mellan att leda team på distans och att leda team lokalt? Ist das Managen von entfernten Teams anders als das Verwalten von lokalen Teams?

30 August 2013 Offshoring

I recently read an interesting discussion on Quora. I love the reply of Venkatesh Rao. I am currently writing a book on managing remote teams and engage many experts from around the world to write about the best practices on offshoring and nearshoring. Here is the reply he posted:

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A Virtual Interview on a Visit to NetherlandsEen virtueel interview tijdens een bezoek aan NederlandEn virtuell intervju under ett besök i NederländernaEin virtuelles Interview bei einem Besuch der Niederlande

One of our employees, Lekha, had an opportunity to visit Netherlands as part of a project trip. Here is an excerpt of her experience there :- 1. Was this the first time you visited the Netherlands? Yes, this was my …

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Crowdwriting a book on offshoring

Last month, I have started writing my first book! The past years, I have gained a lot of hands-on experience with my feet in the mud. Based on this experience, I want to develop a practical handbook for managing remote …

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Why does my Indian developer ask no questions?!Waarom stelt mijn Indiase ontwikkelaars geen vragen?!Varför ställer inte min indiska utvecklare några frågor?!Warum stellt mein indischer Entwickler keine Fragen?!

Last week, one of my colleagues from Kiev pointed me to a very interesting article on the real reason why outsourcing fails. The main point made in the article is that the underlying (failure) factor in all offshoring relationships is the …

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How to create support for offshoring in your existing team?Hoe creëert u ondersteuning voor offshoring in uw bestaande team?Konsten att få ditt team att stödja offshoring?Wie kann ich Offshoring in Ihrem bestehenden Team unterstützen?

In my daily practice, I regularly encounter a big challenge in managing remote teams for our customers. And it’s a challenge that Bridge as a provider of dedicated teams, can hardly influence: the support the existing team in the client …

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