Comments on: Mexican Project Management http://svprojectmanagement.com/mexican-project-management Project management wisdom from practictioners and the UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:47:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: kwiefling http://svprojectmanagement.com/mexican-project-management/comment-page-1#comment-1280 kwiefling Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:25:52 +0000 http://svprojectmanagement.com/2008/09/23/mexican-project-management/#comment-1280 Right on, Matt! I have personally seen the value of a daily stand up meetings (keep people standing up and the meeting doesn't drag on and on!) in keeping things going and communication flowing during a critical time in a project. Good communication doesn't just happen on it's own. Project leaders must design it into their processes, and, while outsourcing around the world is certainly going to grow, the choice of an offshoring partner that is 12 hours away designs communication problems into the system that must be overcome by other means. When I mentioned outsourcing or offshoring to any of my big shot software engineering friends (VPs of companies and the like) many of them just roll their eyes and gag. I think people got burnt out on the big promise of reduced costs coming at a much higher price than expected. It's much easier for me to understand the attraction of working with development firms in nearby countries now that I've personally been to Hermosillo now and seen the high tech wave happening there, felt the enthusiasm of the software developers there at Nearsoft and the surrounding techno-community, and enjoyed the ease, comfort and safety of traveling there. Globally Scrappy! - Kimberly Wiefling, Author of the Anti-PMBOKxidant <a href="http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/1600050514/" rel="nofollow">"Scrappy Project Management"</a>, available wrapped in brown paper bags everywhere to escape detection by local authorities. Right on, Matt! I have personally seen the value of a daily stand up meetings (keep people standing up and the meeting doesn’t drag on and on!) in keeping things going and communication flowing during a critical time in a project. Good communication doesn’t just happen on it’s own. Project leaders must design it into their processes, and, while outsourcing around the world is certainly going to grow, the choice of an offshoring partner that is 12 hours away designs communication problems into the system that must be overcome by other means. When I mentioned outsourcing or offshoring to any of my big shot software engineering friends (VPs of companies and the like) many of them just roll their eyes and gag. I think people got burnt out on the big promise of reduced costs coming at a much higher price than expected.

It’s much easier for me to understand the attraction of working with development firms in nearby countries now that I’ve personally been to Hermosillo now and seen the high tech wave happening there, felt the enthusiasm of the software developers there at Nearsoft and the surrounding techno-community, and enjoyed the ease, comfort and safety of traveling there.

Globally Scrappy! – Kimberly Wiefling, Author of the Anti-PMBOKxidant “Scrappy Project Management”, available wrapped in brown paper bags everywhere to escape detection by local authorities.

]]> By: mperez http://svprojectmanagement.com/mexican-project-management/comment-page-1#comment-1279 mperez Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:59:05 +0000 http://svprojectmanagement.com/2008/09/23/mexican-project-management/#comment-1279 Reading your post made me hungry (all talk about fresh seafood... yumm). Seriously, companies that are still trying to make offshoring work for them are leaving money on the table and working harder than they have to. The cultural/time/geographic proximity is a huge advantage and something that has to be experienced before you can get the full impact of it. For one thing, you can run daily stand up meetings, <i>every day, any time!</i> -- Matt Perez, <a href="http://www.nearsoft.com/nearsoft-quick-intro.php" title="The dev team in Hermosillo" rel="nofollow">Nearsoft, Inc</a> Reading your post made me hungry (all talk about fresh seafood… yumm).

Seriously, companies that are still trying to make offshoring work for them are leaving money on the table and working harder than they have to. The cultural/time/geographic proximity is a huge advantage and something that has to be experienced before you can get the full impact of it. For one thing, you can run daily stand up meetings, every day, any time!

– Matt Perez, Nearsoft, Inc

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