Project Design for Diversity and Distribution

Why go global?

my thought

cost

access to larger talent pool

asynchronicity

some of the benefits are often false promises

Coordination

Coordination is the management of dependencies

Coordination has a distance

communciation efficiency

distribution and time zones

exception handling behavior

different priorities

misreading indicators

Coordination can be designed

Tacit abilities are an asset

Culture

Geert Hofstede dimensions of value in culture

Individualism

Masculinity

Uncertainty avoidance

Power distance

Long-term orientation