Project Shrink

In this episode of The Project Shrink Podcast I am talking to David Webb of Exigen Services. We are talking about flex-agility: their outsourced, fixed price, agile-based application development offering. Earlier this year I talked to Alec Miloslavsky, CEO of Exigen Services, and I got a lot of feedback on this topic. Your feedback let [...]

Ever heard of a fixed price agile method for outsourcing? Sounds like utopia, but with a closer look it makes sense. It’s about agility, a proper governance model, and, as always, communication, communication and communication. In this episode of “The Project Shrink” I have the pleasure of talking to Alec Miloslavsky, CEO of Exigen Services. [...]

We all know that the key ingredient to successful outsourcing is frequent and fast feedback; keep your customer in the loop, let him know about your progress and problems and get him involved. Next to “communication” the keyword is “transparency”. What happens if you take this to the next level? What if the productivity of [...]

On this blog I talk a lot about the need for people to be able to see different perspectives on matters. An impressive example of this is shown in the video below (if you read the RSS feed, you need to visit this post to view). In it an American programmer goes 30 days to [...]

The management topic that keeps my brain busy this year is “dealing with different cultures in projects“. Recently I read an interesting discussion about the differences between doing Project Management in Western countries and India and China. One of the participants in the discussion geared my attention towards the work of Geert Hofstede (who is [...]

If your project team is spread all over the globe, you will sometimes scare yourself with the amount of prejudice you have when dealing with people from different cultures. I know I do. Humans have a tendency to categorize everything, including people. Stereotyping can be dangerous, because it tries to say something about an entire [...]