Category Archives: Offshoring

Agile Retrospectives, an Effective Tool for Continuous Improvement

Most teams that are doing agile development and are using Scrum have heard about agile retrospectives. Often they also start doing retrospectives after one or more sprints. Some teams keep on doing them, but I’ve heard a lot of teams …

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An entrepreneurial lesson in offshoringEenondernemende les in offshoringEn entreprenörslektion i offshoringEine unternehmerische Lektion im Offshoring

In my previous article I described some lessons learned on failures that I made in building my Global IT Staffing company Bridge. I have few more important lessons that are more on the entrepreneurial side than on the offshore management …

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What did I learn building an offshore and nearshore team?Wat heb ik geleerd door een offshore en nearshore team op te zetten?Vad lärde jag mig av att bygga upp ett offshore- och nearshore-team?Was hab ich beim Aufbau eines Offshore und Nearshore Teams gelernt?

A few weeks back I wrote an article about What makes global teamwork, offshoring, nearshoring and remote cooperations so interesting. I have a critical father in law who told me that I described some pitfalls that I walked into and asked …

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Quality versus speedKwaliteit versus snelheidKvalitet kontra snabbhetQualität versus Geschwindigkeit

20 February 2013 Offshoring

One of the mindset differences that often lead to issues in cooperations across cultures is quality versus speed. I believe this is a cultural difference that needs to receive attention in any offshore collaboration. It can result both from a …

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Distributed sprint planningDistributed sprint planningDistribuerad sprintplaneringDezentrale Sprint – Planung

12 February 2013 Offshoring

The past years I have been experimenting a lot with scrum in our offshore and nearshore cooperations. One of the most challenging parts of distributed scrum (the variant of scrum where team members cooperate from different locations) is organizing the …

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