Consulting for Globally Distributed Development

There are several reasons not to handle a project in one location.  Mostly people want to save costs. Often capacity, expertise, market proximity or otherwise is the reason.
One success for distributed projects is a professional project management based on well-defined processes. Some aspects of development processes are crucial for distributed projects. Just as important, however, are soft facts, such as appreciation, team building, and traps of communication in foreign languages, etc.

 
I convey with consulting, coaching and training the experience of hundreds of development projects, which were executed distributed over countries of the CEE region and Asia.

My presentation, "Success Factors of Globally Distributed Projects" at the EuroSPI 2008 was awarded the Best Speaker Award and was published in the journal Software Process by Wiley-Blackwell.

   

References to multicultural Cooperation

  • Interest in foreign cultures - language studies in French and Spanish cultural institute in Austria and Arabistic at the University of Vienna. Summer language courses in France (Montpellier), Spain (Santander) and Tunisia (Tunis)
  •  درست لغة عربية منذ سنتين وإرد أن عمل فى بلد عربية أيضا 
  • The interest in foreign cultures, I was able to maintain through my participation in software quality conferences in Europe, Japan and USA, as well as participation in the program committee of the World Congress for Software Quality as well as through my professional tasks in most countries of my former employer PSE (besides Austria: China, Germany, Croatia , Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary) and with customers in the U.S., Germany and France
  • Conduct training for the PSE system development methodology SEM in the location of PSE
  • Training and Coaching of the quality managers of the 8 countries of PSE 
  • Analysis of distributed projects and development best practices for globally distributed projects 

 
To immerse myself in the everyday life of the country is essential for me and completes the available information. Into exciting countries like Myanmar / Burma, Thailand and Arab countries recently (Libya),  so far I have only travelled privately.