Category Archives: Offshoring

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?

12 March 2013 Nearshoring

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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Advantages of Having an Outsourced Employee Voordelen van het hebben van een geoutsourcede werknemerFördelarna med att ha en outsourcad anställdVorteile einen ausgelagerten Angestellte zu haben

6 February 2013 Offshoring

  I have spent a good number of years encouraging both small and large business owners to take advantage of outsourcing, by hiring outsourced employees to run certain business functions. I have even written a book on the subject called …

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What makes global teamwork, offshoring, nearshoring and remote cooperation so interesting?

31 January 2013 Offshoring

In this article, I would like to share (a short version of) my personal story with you. I have done a short interview with myself: What drew me to this market? An odd combination of events. Short after the millennium …

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