Showing posts with label Distributed Team. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Distributed Team. Show all posts

Friday, April 22, 2011

What Does It Take to Create an Opportunity?


Ajay works in a software development center in India, they call it captive unit. His team is distributed geographically; half of the team is in USA and half in India. He is with this organization for quite a long time and until recently never thought to leave it. Well, definitely for some reasons. He considered himself well paid. He earned respect from his colleagues for his work and intelligence. More than anything, he enjoyed his successful STATUS among his friends and family. Recently, he started feeling to do something more. Ajay knew that his definition of “more” was not something very fancy like his organization’s Mission-Vision statement. But he was clear that he wanted to do something UP in the value chain, where he can perform some creative work and challenge his comfort zone to learn new things. He was hitting the ceiling within the boundaries of work; he was doing for past couple of years, almost of the same complexity. He was worried that if he keeps on doing the same work his growth was at stake. And, in spite of adding number of years in his experience, he would just repeat the same work every year. He questioned himself, 10 years of true experience or 1 year of experience 10 times?

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Thoughts on Distributed Team

JOYOn one hand budgets are getting tighter day by day and on the other business demands are growing. This is a big challenge for every business. One of the way to deal with this situation is Strategic offshoring; currently the most common and popular one. As offshoring or global sourcing has evolved from a tactical to strategic role, distributed teams are everywhere. And it’s happening for the rights reasons. High-quality yet low-cost skilled resources, round the clock availability, and flexible scaling due to greater talent pool are few of the benefits hard to ignore.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Connect Your Thinking Dots


Good Communication Helps!!
In a typical software development house where teams are not co-located importance of clear communication becomes vital. Due to not so effective communication productivity drops, building trust gets tougher, morale of the team affects, and so many other negative things happen. As a part of distributed team, where I lead the Indian team of software engineers, I observed few patterns.